Dr. Muhammad Ali Jan

I completed my PhD in International Development, focusing in particular on the political economy and sociology of agrarian change in Pakistani Punjab, from the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, in 2017. I am also a Research Associate of the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme (CSASP) at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. From 2017 to 2019, I was a postdoctoral fellow in South Asian Studies at Wolfson College, University of Oxford during which time I designed and taught courses on the comparative political economy of South Asia at CSASP. Specifically, I work on agricultural markets and agrarian change in Pakistani Punjab but my broader interests include history of development thinking, industrial policy, informality and comparative political economy of South Asia. My articles have been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Modern Asian Studies and Economic and Political Weekly and I have contributed a number of chapters for edited volumes. I am currently preparing a monograph on the agrarian sociology of Pakistani Punjab through the class and status struggles between merchants, landlords and peasants in two districts of the province.