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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is interested in global Islamic connections, in particular between South Asia and the Middle East. His second book, In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi‘ism between Pakistan and the Middle East was published with the University of North Carolina Press in 2019 and received the inaugural book award of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association.
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He is currently working on a global history of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/79 for Princeton University Press.
After obtaining his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 2015, Dr. Fuchs was elected a Junior Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. From 2017 until 2023, he was a lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the German Young Academy.
Since Gal Gvili was awarded the Polonsky Fellowship, she has continued for her Masters at the East Asian Studies Department at Hebrew University, from where she graduated in 2006.
I am a historian of South Asia with a focus on twentieth-century India. My research and teaching interests encompass nationalism and state formation, territorial partitions, urban history, colonialism and decolonization. I hold a joint appointment in the Department of Asian Studies and the History Department.
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I earned my PhD from the Department of History at Princeton University and my M.A. in anthropology from the New School for Social Research. My book, Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India’s Capital (Stanford University Press, 2022), was shortlisted for the 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, sponsored by the New India Foundation. It delves into the history of Delhi during the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, examining the city’s transformation under the pressures of the Second World War and the partition of India. Bridging studies of high politics with the ground-level experience of partition, it shows what the politics of the nation-state meant in everyday life. My current project explores citizenship formation in the new republic. It centers on Delhi from decolonization to the suspension of democracy during the Emergency rule (1975-1977) and its restoration afterward. This research explores how different sections of urban society conceptualized, interpreted, and asserted citizenship in the new republic, shaping Indian democracy in the process.
I teach a range of courses, including the survey course “Introduction to Modern India” and seminars on colonialism, urban history, gender and caste, the Gandhian movements, the Cold War in South Asia, and the transnational history of twentieth-century partitions.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Awardee of an Imperial Decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun. Honorary President, the Israel Association of Japanese Studies (2015-2018)
Research Interests: pre-modern Arabic sources on Indonesia and the Malay world, cultural connections between the Middle East and maritime Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean history, history and cultural anthropology of Sumatra.
I research two worldwide well known atrocities in the WWII, the Holocaust and the atomic bombings in Japan. I expertise in the comparative analysis of victimhood in human experiments conducted during the Holocaust and post atomic bombs.
