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Uzma Quraishi
Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University

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Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
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Immigration History, Asian American History, Recent U.S. History
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Uzma Quraishi is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. Dr. Quraishi is a historian of recent America, with areas of specialization in immigration, race and ethnicity, Asian American history, and the Cold War.
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Uzma Quraishi is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. Dr. Quraishi is a historian of recent America, with areas of specialization in immigration, race and ethnicity, Asian American history, and the Cold War. Dr. Quraishi’s first book, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War (2020), examines the significance of race, ethnicity, and class for Asian immigrants as a window into the post-Jim Crow South.
Her accolades include the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award (IEHS) for the best book in U.S. immigration history, as well as honorable mention for the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award (AHA PCB) for Redefining the Immigrant South. Her recent article, “Racial Calculations: Indian and Pakistani Immigrants in Houston, 1960–1980,” appeared in a special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History on multi-ethnic immigration to the U.S. South, and was awarded the 2020 Vicki L. Ruiz Award (WHA) for the best article on race in the American West and honorable mention for the Qualey Memorial Article Award. Professor Quraishi’s research has been supported by a grants and fellowships from the Clements Center for Southwest Studies (SMU), the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and the African American Library at the Gregory School.
Currently, Dr. Quraishi is working on a history of U.S. Cold War public diplomacy and cultural imperialism in South Asia.
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