Damanpreet Pelia

Damanpreet is a PhD candidate in American Studies. He is currently a predoctoral fellow in History at MIT. His dissertation is a study of American Presbyterian missionaries in Panjab during the transition to colonialism, between 1833 and the turn of the century. His research interests include religion, secularism, empire, sovereignty, and Marxist thought.

His work has been supported by the Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Asia Center, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, South Asian Studies Council, MacMillan Center, and the John Enders Fellowship. He holds a BA in History from Tufts University and a MTS from Harvard Divinity School.