Jahan Ahmed, D.S.Sc.

Global Studies · UC Santa Barbara, United States — PhD Student

Research Areas

  • Communications Theory
  • Cultural Analysis
  • Media Aesthetics
  • Media and Communication History
  • Media and Information Literacy
  • Media Systems
  • Media Theory
  • Political Communication
  • Popular Culture
  • Rhetorics
  • Visual Communication

About

Jahan Z Ahmed is a PhD candidate in Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His transnational research project focuses on the American support for the construction of Islamist knowledge networks and right-wing imagined communities via reflexive circulation of a militant religious discourse in Pakistan (1947-79) in the broader context of cultural cold war.