Profile

Andrew Amstutz is an assistant professor of history at Queens College. He earned his PhD in South Asian history from Cornell University. His research and teaching interests center on the history of Islam and South Asia as well as the history of science, public history, and museums.

He is working on a book project tentatively titled "Finding a Home for Urdu: Language and Technoscience in Muslim South Asia," which tells the story of an influential network of Indian Muslim educators and language activists who experimented with the print technologies of Urdu and debated the role of science education in different imperial and national projects in India.

Andrew is developing a new research project that explores the global circulation of ancient Buddhist art from Pakistan during the Cold War and its role in local public history debates. His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright-Hays, and AIPS. He has published articles in "Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East," "South Asia," and "Philological Encounters." Prior to joining Queens College, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UW-Madison and taught at UA Little Rock.