Select publications

• New Perspectives on Safavid Iran:  Empire and Society (ed.). Iranian Studies Series, London:  Routledge, 2011.
• The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran:  Power, Religion and Rhetoric. London:  I. B. Tauris, 2009.
• Sir Thomas Roe and the Mughal Empire. Karachi: University of Karachi, Area Study Centre of Europe, 2000.
• "Persian Rhetoric in the Safavid Context:  A 16th-century Nürbakhshiyya Treatise on Insha."  In eds. W. Hanaway and B. Spooner. Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2012, pp. 196-231.
  
• "Am I My Brother's Keeper?  Negotiating Corporate Sovereignty and Divine Absolutism in Sixteenth-Century Turco-Iranian Politics."  In New Perspectives on Safavid Iran:  Empire and Society.  Ed. Colin P. Mitchell.  London:  Routledge, 2011, pp. 33-58.

Awards and honours

• 2012-2015 SSHRC Insight Grant - "Ruling from a Red Canopy:  Princely States and Governates in the Perso-Islamic World, 1000-1700"
• Recipient of Honorable Mention for the Middle East Studies Association's 2010 Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award
• 2002-2004 SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
• 2002-2003 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Persian history and culture, Society for the  Humanities, Cornell University
• 2002 Honorable Mention - Dissertation Award of Foundation for Iranian Studies

Teaching 2016-2017

• HIST 2014F - First World War:  How it Changed Our World
• HIST 2503W - Medieval Islamic Civilization
• HIST 3500F - Topics in Global History (2016-2017 Topic:  History of Muslim Culture in South Asia)
  
• HIST 3510W - Sultans and Shahs:  Politics and Religion in the Islamic Gunpowder Age (1500-1800)
  
• HIST 3511W - Ancient and Medieval History of the Persianate World
  

Office Hours Summer Term

• by appointment