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Currently, a PhD student at the University of Toronto affiliated with the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
PhD Candidate, History of Science, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (Current)
MA History of Science, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (2015)
BA Specialist History; Minor History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto (2015)
South Asian Studies; History of Evolutionary Biology; Islam and Science; Science and Empire; Nineteenth Century British History; Global History of Science and Religion
“Darwinism and the History of Evolutionary Biology: What is Excluded?” in Beyond the Darwinian Revolution: Historicizing Evolution from the Past to the Present. Edited by Ian Hesketh (Forthcoming)
2020
“Aligarh’s Scientific Society: All But Forgotten” in Oxford of the East: Aligarh Muslim University (1920-2020). Edited by A.R Kidwai (Delhi: Viva Books), 258-274
“Studying the Qur’an: Neither Here nor There,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (accepted for publication, December 2020)
2019
“Re-Examining Complexity: Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Interpretation of ‘Science in Islam” in Rethinking History, Science and Religion: Exploring Complexity. Edited by Bernard Lightman (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press), 50-64.
2018
“Darwin or Design: Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Views on Human Evolution” in The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan. Edited by Yasmin Saikia and Raisur Rahim. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 214-232.
2020
“The Munsif in Delhi: Intellectual Communities and Vernacular Translations in 19th India,” Colonial Knowledges Conference. Manchester, UK
“Complexities Around Translating Scientific Knowledge in 19th Century British India,” British Society for the History of Science Global Histories Twitter Conference – Twitter
“Decolonizing History of Evolutionary Biology: A Perspective from 19th Century India,” Cabinet of Natural History, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge, UK
2019
Session Organizer, “Science and its Local Readers in British India,” History of Science Society, Utrecht, Netherlands (July 2019)
“Translating Science: Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Scientific Discourse in Print,” History of Science Society, Utrecht, Netherlands (July 2019)
“Moving from Complexity to Global Histories of Science and Religion” International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society, Birmingham, UK (July 2019)
“Darwin or Design? Examining Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s view of human evolution,” Workshop: Imagining the Darwinian Revolution, The Place of History in Science. International Society for Intellectual History, Queensland, Australia (June 2019)
“Disseminating Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India: The Origins of the Scientific Society of Aligarh (est. 1864)” British Society for the History of Science Post Graduate Conference, Cambridge, UK (April 2019)
“A Case-study of Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Commentary on the Holy Bible” McGill Institute for Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium, Montreal, Quebec (April 2019)
2018
“Science, Islam and Colonial India: Exploring the Complexity Thesis in the Field of Science and Religion” – History of Science Society, Seattle Washington USA
“The Intersection of Christianity, Islam and Science in Colonial India” Science and Religion – Religion and Science – Friend or Foe or Unrelated? Zürich, CH
2017
“Islam’s Complexity – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) and the Relationship Between Science and Islam in Colonial India” International Congress for the History of Science, Rio De Janeiro, BR
“Sir Syed the nechari (naturalist)” History of Science in India Symposium, Christchurch NZ
2016
“Discarded Perspectives of Darwinism: The Case of India” Binocular Conference, Toronto ON
2019
“Taqi ad-Din ibn Ma’ruf (1521-1585) and Tyco Brahe (1546-1601): Rethinking the History of Astronomy and Religion,” Lecture in HPS272: Science Against Religion? A Complex History
2018
“Darwin in India: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s perspective on Human Evolution” Lecture in HPS326: History of Science and Religion, Toronto ON
2016
“Introduction to Darwinism” Lecture in HPS326: History of Science and Religion, Toronto ON
“Darwinism in Colonial India” IHPST Colloquialism, Toronto ON
2015
“Psychoanalysis in Colonial India” Keynote address at HPSUS Almagest Journal launch, Toronto ON
2019 Teaching Assistant, HPS120H: How to Think About Science
IHPST, University of Toronto
2018 Teaching Assistant, HPS100: Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Online) IHPST, University of Toronto
2016 Teaching Assistant, HPS326H: History of Science and Religion
IHPST, University of Toronto
2015 Teaching Assistant JHE353H: History of Evolutionary Biology
IHPST, University of Toronto
2019-2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2020 Visiting Student, HPS Department, University of Cambridge
2019 Doctoral Completion Award
2015 Woodsworth College Leadership Award
2014 J.R MacGillivray Fellowship (University College)
2014 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award
2014 Innis College Leadership Award
2014 University College Merit Award
2013 University College Leadership Bursary
2020 Founder and Advisory Board Member, Virtual HistSTM
2020 Content Director, BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival
2020 Member, Virtual Forum Committee (History of Science Society)
2020-2021 Research Assistant: Pedagogical Innovation and Experimentation (PIE), U of T
2019-2021 Diversity Officer for the Graduate and Early Career Caucus (HSS)
2016-2017 Finance and University Governance Commissioner for the UTGSU
2015-2016 Course Organizer, “Indigenous Health Histories”
English: fluent in writing, speaking and reading
French: reading (with dictionary)
Urdu: fluent in speaking and reading
Hindi: Fluent in speaking
Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto
British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
History of Science Society (HSS)
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS)
Sarah Qidwai 