Nazmul Sultan

Nazmul Sultan joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research interests include the history of political thought, empire and anticolonial thought, democratic theory, and ideas of the global. His first book, Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (Harvard University Press, 2024), examines how a foundational set of disputes over the terms of modern peoplehood underwrote the formation of the democratic project in colonial India. His research has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and Review of Politics, among others. Sultan holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Before joining Yale, he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia and, previously, the George Kingsley Roth Research Fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.