Programmes Convened

• MA Islamic Intellectual History (2019)
• MA Islamic Intellectual History (2020)
• MA Islamic Intellectual History and Intensive Language (2019)
• MA Islamic Intellectual History and Intensive Language (2020)
• MA Religion in Global Politics (2018)
• MA Religion in Global Politics (2019)
• MA Religion in Global Politics (2020)

Modules Taught

• H140 Introduction to the History of South Asia
• Philosophies of Language
• R130 Islam: Religion and Rationality
• R430 Political Islam
• Religion in Global Politics: Theories and Themes

PhD Students supervised

• Florence Shahabi, Sayyid Bahodine Majrouh: an intellectual biography
• Jack Clift, Historical fiction and historical imagination in Hindi and Urdu literature
• Rabia Latif Khan, Narrative, memory and belonging: Constructing a ‘Hazara identity’ abroad

Articles

Caron, James (2019) 'Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge'. Geopolitics, (24) 2, pp 444-461.

Caron, James (2016) 'Borderland Historiography in Pakistan'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 4, pp 327-345.

Caron, James (2016) 'Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 2, pp 135-154.

Caron, James and Dasgupta, Ananya (2016) 'Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 2, pp 107-116.

Caron, James and Ahmad, Mahvish (2015) 'Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan'. South Asian History and Culture, (7) 1, pp 30-36.

Caron, James (2015) 'The Lives of Amir Hamza Shinwari: on personal histories against an imperial border'. Tanqeed | a magazine of politics and culture, (10), pp 43-53.

Caron, James (2013) 'Elite Pasts and Subaltern Potentialities: Roundtable on the Future of Afghanistan Historiography'. International Journal of Middle East Studies, (45) 1, pp 138-141.

Caron, James (2011) 'Reading the Power of Printed Orality in Afghanistan: Popular Pashto Literature as Historical Evidence and Public Intervention'. The Journal of Social History, (45) 1, pp 172-194.

Caron, James (2007) 'Afghanistan Historiography and Pashtun Islam: Modernization Theory's Afterimage'. History Compass, (5) 1, pp 314-329.

Book Chapters

Caron, James (2017) 'Social Inequality and Ideological Circulation: Speaking for and against the Patriarchal State, 1930-1960'. Power Hierarchies and Hegemony in Afghanistan. London: I. B. Tauris. [Forthcoming]

Caron, James (2013) 'Ambiguities of Orality and Literacy, Territory and Border Crossings: Public Activism and Pashto Literature in Afghanistan, 1930-2010'. In: Green, Nile and Arbabzadah, Nushin, (eds.), Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation. London: Hurst.

Caron, James (2012) 'Taliban, Real and Imagined'. In: Bashir, Shahzad and Crews, Robert D, (eds.), Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Translations

Sulamal, Abdul Wakil and Caron, James (2017) ''Faces and Thoughts (Tsire aw Andixene)'' Samovar, Strange Horizons.

Other

Caron, James (2012) 'Sulamal's Work in Historical Context; Sulamal as Critical Historian: Preface'.

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