Shayan Rajani

Shayan Rajani is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. His research and teaching interests include Mughal history, the history of Sindh and South Asia, and the study of gender and sexuality. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Wolf Humanities Center at University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journal articles including the Journal of the Social History of the Orient,...See more

Shayan Rajani is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. His research and teaching interests include Mughal history, the history of Sindh and South Asia, and the study of gender and sexuality. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Wolf Humanities Center at University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journal articles including the Journal of the Social History of the Orient, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Philological Encounters. He also has a book chapter in Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (2023) published by Duke University Press. See less