Mohammad Ebad Athar

History 200, Global Diasporas: Histories of Transnational Diaspora Communities

History 101, American History to 1865

History 102, American History since 1865

History 210, Ancient World

History 111, Early Modern Europe

History 211, Medieval & Renaissance Europe 

“Manufactured Terror: The Securitization of South Asian Identity in the U.S. and Persian Gulf”

Mohammad Ebad Athar is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Syracuse University. He is also a graduate research associate in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs South Asia Center in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a graduate fellow with the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse. In collaboration with faculty members from Syracuse and the University of Illinois Chicago, Athar is part of a larger project that seeks to understand the impact of dominant news narratives on Muslim American communities post September 11, 2001.

Athar’s research interests range from U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East and South Asia. His dissertation examines the securitization of South Asian identity in the United States and the Persian Gulf and how communities in both regions resist state violence stemming from the Global War on Terror.

Mohammad received a B.A. in history from Rutgers University and received a certificate in public history from Rutgers. He is also an oral historian and has collaborated with the Rutgers Oral History Archive (ROHA) in the production of original oral history interviews with immigrants, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and war veterans.   

The Humanities Center Initiative Public Humanities Grant New York, 2024-2025

Graduate Fellow, Lender Center for Social Justice, Syracuse University, 2023-2025

Foreign Language Area Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Syracuse University, 2023-2025

Bharati Memorial Grant, Syracuse University, 2022

Roscoe Martin Grant, Syracuse University, 2022

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Urdu, Syracuse University, 2020-2021

Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Urdu, Syracuse University, 2020

Young Scholar Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, Syracuse University, 2018 

Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, Syracuse University, 2017-2018

Harold L. Poor Memorial Prize, Rutgers University, 2016

Tom Kindre Legacy Award, Rutgers University, 2015

Crandon Clark Scholar, Rutgers University, 2014-2015

Article, “The Indus Water Treaty,” Against the Current no. 232 (Sept.-Oct 2024): https://againstthecurrent.org/atc232/the-indus-water-treaty/.

Book Review, “The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship,” The English Historical Review (2024).

Book Review, “Grand Delusions: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, ”The Middle East Journal 77 (2024): 514-515.

Book Review, Lyndon Johnson and the Postwar Order in the Middle East, 1962-1967, The Journal of Military History 86 (2022): 225. 

M.A. Thesis, “From the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf: Pakistan’s Historical Links with the Middle East in the 1970s,” Syracuse University, 2019. 

“The War on Terror and American Popular Culture,” Guest Lecture for News and the ‘War on Terror’, Syracuse University, March 21, 2024.

“Terrorist or hero? What the news said about a Pakistani man at the World Trade Center,” Cornell University Spring Lecture Series, Cornell University, March 18, 2024.

“Manufactured Terror: The Securitization of South Asian Identity in the U.S. and Persian Gulf,” Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentation, Syracuse University, January 23, 2023.

“Third World Solidarities: Pakistan's Relationship with Iran and Saudi Arabia During the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Period," South Asian Studies Association, Loyola Marymount University, April 2022.

"Third World Solidarities: Pakistan's Relationship with Iran and Saudi Arabia During the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Period," Stony Brook University Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Decolonial Histories: Imperialism, Resistance, & Liberation, Stony Brook University, September 2020.

“Bread, Cloth, Shelter: Pakistan’s Political-Economic Situation in the Aftermath of the 1971 Indo-Pak War,” Rutgers University 41st Annual Susman Graduate Conference, Rutgers University, April 2019.

“Bread, Cloth, Shelter: Pakistan’s Economic Situation in the Aftermath of the 1971 Indo-Pak War,” Consumption, Exchange, & Material Culture, Syracuse University, March 2019.