Mohammad Ebad Athar
Advisor:
Osamah F. Khalil
Radha Kumar
Mona Bhan
Mohammad Ebad Athar
Assistant Director, International Relations Undergraduate Program
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Graduate Research Associate, South Asia Center
Courses
History 200, Global Diasporas: Histories of Transnational Diaspora Communities
History 101, American History to 1865
History 102, American History since 1865
History 210, Ancient World
History 111, Early Modern Europe
History 211, Medieval & Renaissance Europe
Graduate Student Dissertation
“Manufactured Terror: The Securitization of South Asian Identity in the U.S. and Persian Gulf”
Bio
Mohammad Ebad Athar is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Syracuse University. He is also a graduate research associate in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs South Asia Center in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Athar's research explores the securitization of South Asian identity during the ongoing Global War on Terror for communities in the United States and the Persian Gulf. Mohammad previously completed an M.A. in history at Syracuse and earned a B.A. in history from Rutgers University. Athar has also served as a Graduate Fellow at Syracuse's Lender Center for Social Justice.
An oral historian by training with experience in the public history field, Athar seeks to connect students to career fields and experiences beyond traditional academic spaces and career trajectories while also encouraging students to think about the communities they can serve in their future work.
Research Grant Awards and Projects
The Humanities Center Initiative Public Humanities Grant New York, 2024-2025
Graduate Fellow, Lender Center for Social Justice, Syracuse University, 2023-2025
Foreign Language Area Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Syracuse University, 2023-2025
Bharati Memorial Grant, Syracuse University, 2022
Roscoe Martin Grant, Syracuse University, 2022
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Urdu, Syracuse University, 2020-2021
Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Urdu, Syracuse University, 2020
Young Scholar Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, Syracuse University, 2018
Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, Syracuse University, 2017-2018
Harold L. Poor Memorial Prize, Rutgers University, 2016
Tom Kindre Legacy Award, Rutgers University, 2015
Crandon Clark Scholar, Rutgers University, 2014-2015
Selected Publications
Article, “The Indus Water Treaty,” Against the Current no. 232 (Sept.-Oct 2024): https://againstthecurrent.org/atc232/the-indus-water-treaty/.
Book Review, “The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship,” The English Historical Review (2024).
Book Review, “Grand Delusions: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, ”The Middle East Journal 77 (2024): 514-515.
Book Review, Lyndon Johnson and the Postwar Order in the Middle East, 1962-1967, The Journal of Military History 86 (2022): 225.
M.A. Thesis, “From the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf: Pakistan’s Historical Links with the Middle East in the 1970s,” Syracuse University, 2019.
Presentations and Events
“The War on Terror and American Popular Culture,” Guest Lecture for News and the ‘War on Terror’, Syracuse University, March 21, 2024.
“Terrorist or hero? What the news said about a Pakistani man at the World Trade Center,” Cornell University Spring Lecture Series, Cornell University, March 18, 2024.
“Manufactured Terror: The Securitization of South Asian Identity in the U.S. and Persian Gulf,” Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentation, Syracuse University, January 23, 2023.
“Third World Solidarities: Pakistan's Relationship with Iran and Saudi Arabia During the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Period," South Asian Studies Association, Loyola Marymount University, April 2022.
"Third World Solidarities: Pakistan's Relationship with Iran and Saudi Arabia During the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Period," Stony Brook University Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Decolonial Histories: Imperialism, Resistance, & Liberation, Stony Brook University, September 2020.
“Bread, Cloth, Shelter: Pakistan’s Political-Economic Situation in the Aftermath of the 1971 Indo-Pak War,” Rutgers University 41st Annual Susman Graduate Conference, Rutgers University, April 2019.
“Bread, Cloth, Shelter: Pakistan’s Economic Situation in the Aftermath of the 1971 Indo-Pak War,” Consumption, Exchange, & Material Culture, Syracuse University, March 2019.