Alizeh AhmadDissertation Completion Fellow

Alizeh Ahmad is a PhD candidate in Religion at Emory University, where she explores the intersections of Islam, anti-imperialist thought, and aesthetics.

Her research traces spiritual and political inheritances across generations, drawing on family archives, oral histories, and the literary imagination to engage the intellectual legacy of her great-great-grandfather. In her dissertation, she blends historical and textual analysis with personal narrative to ask what it means to carry, translate, and transform an ancestor’s ideas across time. Bringing critical and poetic modes into dialogue, her project reflects on how interior life, ancestral memory, and political thought shape one another.