Department of History

Ariba is interested in modern South Asian history and examining gender/sexuality and political economy in Pakistan post-Partition. She aims to examine the leadership and participation of women in social movements after Partition and research which spaces women were able to claim agency and autonomy over their bodies. Ariba is inspired by anti-capitalist and post-colonial scholarship and seeks to highlight the connections between gender/sexuality and political economy as mutually constitutive by using a theoretical framework based on social reproduction and accumulation by dispossession.