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 2019-2020

• HIST 1910(02)F - Life Stories Seminar (2019-2020 Topic:  Saladin:  a Muslim Crusader)
• HIST 2509F - Hindu, Muslim, Sikh:  Identity, Culture and State in the Pre Colonial South Asia
  
• HIST 2510W - Hindu, Muslim, Sikh:  Locating the Trauma of Modern South Asia
  
• HIST 3512F - Topics in Global History (2016-2017 Topic:  History of Muslim Culture in South Asia)
• HIST 5800 - The Masters Seminar - For History Students Only.

Office Hours Fall Term 2019

• Fridays:  1:30-3:30