Tariq Khan
Tariq Khan is an interdisciplinary historian, author, and Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. He holds an MA from George Mason University and a PhD in History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research is focused on U.S. empire & settler colonialism, insurgency & counterinsurgency, colonial racial capitalism, labor & working-class history, ethnicity, race, class, gender, and transnational struggle from below.
He came to Yale in 2022 after completing a postdoc in Community-Based Research and Teaching with the Humanities Research Institute and Department of History at UIUC. Prior to joining the faculty of ER&M, he served as a Lecturer in Yale’s Department of Psychology where he developed curriculum and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on the history of the psychological sciences in relation to systems of colonialism, capitalism, gender inequality, and racial domination.
A few examples of his published works are his book The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression, his chapter “Living Social Dynamite: Early Twentieth-Century IWW-South Asia Connections,” in Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, and his chapter “Frantz Fanon” in Fifty Key Scholars in Back Social Thought.
Select interviews:
New Books Network podcast interview hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher