CURRICULUM VITAE Samana Zafar Assistant Professor Department Of

CURRICULUM VITAE

Samana Zafar Assistant Professor Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India E-mail: [email protected]

DATE OF BIRTH: : 02nd November, 1982

NATIONALITY : Indian

EDUCATION : University of Allahabad, Allahabad

LANGUAGES KNOWN : English, Hindi, Urdu, Persian (basic)

PRESENT POSITION

Assistant Professor (since 16thJune, 2016)

DEGREES AND FELLOWSHIPS

 Ph.D. (Medieval Indian History), University of Allahabad

Title of the Thesis: Political Biography of a Delhi Sultan: Life and Works of Shamsuddin Iltutmish 1210-1236

 M.A. (Previous: non-Indian History; Final: Medieval Indian History 1200-1800), University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, Ist Division, 63.09%, 2006  B.A. (English Literature, History, Political Science), Ewing Christian College, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, Ist Division, 68.61%, 2004  University Grants Commission (Government of India) Senior Research Fellow, 2012-14  University Grants Commission (Government of India) Junior Research Fellow, 2010-12  D. Phil Scholarship under University Grants Commission (UGC) scheme, 2007-10  UGC- NET/JRF : December 2009

ACADEMIC HONOURS AND DISTINCTION

• Stood 2nd in Order of Merit, M.A. (Medieval History) examination (2006), University of Allahabad • Stood 5th in Order of Merit, B.A. examination (2004), Ewing Christian College, University of Allahabad • Awarded the Smt Nirmala Goswami medal for securing highest marks in Medieval History in the B.A. Part I & II Examinations of the session 2002-03 • Awarded the Nasreen Ahmad Memorial Prize twice for being the author of the best paper among the women delegates submitting their papers at the 22nd session and the 25th session of the U. P. History Congress in Medieval & Modern History sections. The title of the paper is ‘The Sufi Ulama Interface: Nature of Conflict in the First Half of the 13th Century’ and ‘Foreign Powers at Home: Iltutmish’s encounter with Jalaluddin Mangbarni, the Mongol Problem and Relations with the Caliph of Baghdad’.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Treasurer, U.P. History Congress, 2010-2013 • Resident-warden, Begum Hazrat Mahal Girls’ Hostel, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 2016- 2019

MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL BODIES

o Member, Indian History Congress (Membership no. AM 21751), 2008- present day o Member, U. P. History Congress (Membership no. AM 1369), 2008- present day

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 3 years (from July 2016 up to present day) as Assistant Professor, Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia 2 years (from 2014-2016) as Guest Faculty in four semesters in Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia 3 years (as Research Scholar)

Papers taught 1. Political History of Medieval India: 12th to mid 16th century CE [B. A. History (Honours), Semester III] 2. Political History of Medieval India: mid 16th to mid 18th century [B. A. History (Honours), Semester IV] 3. Society and Culture in Medieval India [B. A. History (Honours), B. A. History (Subsidiary), Semester III] 4. Women in Indian History [B. A. (Honours) SEC, Semester VI] 5. History of Islam in India [B. A. (Honours) CBCE, Semester IV] 6. History of United States: From pre-Columbian times to the Cold War [B. A. History (Honours), Semester VI] 7. History of Ancient India up to 800 A.D. [B. A. History (Program), Semester I] 8. History of 20th Century World [B. A. History (Subsidiary), Semester VI] 9. Medieval World [M. A. Semester II]

PAPERS PRESENTED AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES • ‘Sufi Ulama Interface in India: Nature of Relationship in the First Half of the 13th Century Revisited’, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2016 . ‘Shamsuddin Iltutmish: Sovereign or Usurper?’, M. P. J. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 2012

. ‘The Sufi Ulama Interface: Nature of Conflict in the First Half of the 13th Century’, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2011 . ‘Hauz i Shamsi: The tank constructed by Iltutmish’, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, 2008

ARTICLES PUBLISHED • ‘Foreign Powers at Home: Shamsuddin Iltutmish’s encounter with Jalaluddin Mangbarni, the Mongol Problem and Relations with the Caliph of Baghdad’, Interrogating the Past: Northern India through the Ages, Anamika Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2015 (ISBN 978-81-7975-648-5) • ‘Shamsuddin Iltutmish: Sovereign or Usurper?’, Understanding the Past, Anamika Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2014 (978-81-7975-591-4) • ‘Shamsuddin Iltutmish: Sovereign or Usurper?’, History and Archeology (New Series), Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad, January 2013, vol 1, no. 1 (ISSN 2320-0170) • ‘The Sufi Ulama Interface: Nature of Conflict in the First Half of the 13th Century’, Aspects of Indian History, Anamika Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2013 (978-81-7975-476-4) • ‘Hauz i Shamsi: The tank constructed by Iltutmish’, Conversations in Indian History, Anamika Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd, New Delhi, 2010 (978-81-7975-342-2) • Editorial column titled “An Other Language, from Prayagraj to Karnavati” in The Citizen, November 9, 2018 • Editorial column titled “Free thinking and free thinkers” in Countercurrents, February 13, 2020

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS:

• One of the research-papers has been selected for the Second Muslim South Asia Graduate Research Conference which was held in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain in central London on 9& 10 October, 2015. • Co-convener, National Seminar on Boundaries and Frontiers in South Asian History organized on the 7-8 March, 2017 in Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia