Introduction
Associate Professor Iqbal Singh Sevea is Director, Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the fifth director of the research institute and is concurrently a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of History at NUS.
Associate Professor Sevea is an internationally recognised scholar of contemporary and modern South Asia whose core research focuses on South Asian politics, social and political thought, and governance. He has held academic appointments at leading institutions globally and is the author of several publications. Before joining ISAS, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he was a faculty member from 2012 to 2021. From 2018 to end 2021, he was also a Visiting Research Associate Professor at ISAS. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of the Contemporary Islam Programme at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University. He is the current Vice-President of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and has also served on the committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Associate Professor Sevea is the author of the books, The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Islamic Political Thought in Modern South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2022). His other publications include articles and chapters on ethnonationalism in South Asia, the Partition and its aftermath, culture and state ideology in Pakistan, the spread of transnational Islamic movements across the Indian Ocean, conceptions of bodily piety in South Asia, and Muslim education in South Asia.
Associate Professor Sevea holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in History from NUS and a master’s degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Areas of Interest and Expertise
- South Asian Politics
- Religion and Society in South Asia
- Political Islam
- Modern and Contemporary History of South Asia
- Islam in South Asia
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iqbal@nus.edu.sg |
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+65 6601 5962 |
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Director |
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Email : |
iqbal@nus.edu.sg |
DID : |
+65 6601 5962 |
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Designation
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Director |