Aqil Shah

Aqil Shah is Wick Cary Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He holds a doctorate in political science from Columbia University, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. Shah has held research fellowships at Stanford and Harvard, and has taught at Princeton and Dartmouth. His commentary and analysis have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Journal of Democracy. In previous incarnations, he worked for the U.N., the International Crisis Group, and wrote a regular column for the Friday Times (Lahore) and Dawn (Karachi).