Soham Patel

Soham Patel is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator whose work focuses on radical migrant histories, with a particular focus on the South Asian diaspora. His work has appeared in Asia Shorts, CounterPunch, Ethnic Studies Review, Journal of Asian American Studies, and ReOrient: Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. He teaches courses on US imperialism, radical internationalism, and social protest movements.

His current book project, Mutiny: South Asian Radicals in the Long War on Terror, explores the overlooked history of South Asian radicalism in the United States between 1965 to the post-9/11 present. By revisiting the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the intellectual history of Eqbal Ahmad, community-based print magazines, and post-9/11 anti-surveillance visual cultures, Mutiny presents a counter-history of post-1965 South Asian immigration and political formation vis-à-vis Third World anticolonialism, Black freedom movements, the neoliberal turn, Hindu nationalism, and anti-Muslim racism.

Soham is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global American Studies at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2020, and will be Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill beginning in Fall 2025.