M. Raisur Rahman is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Wake Forest University. He specializes in social and cultural history of modern India and South Asian Muslims, with a thrust on local, urban, and literary histories within the contexts of colonial and cultural encounters. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin and an MPhil and MA in modern Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Locale, Everyday Islam, and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019). Earlier, he has served various leadership and advocacy roles including as president of South Asian Muslim Studies Association (2018–24), as a program director for Wake Forest University’s Middle East and South Asia Studies (2020–22), and as a member of the Program Committee for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Historical Association held in Chicago. As a Council member of the Professional Division, he is committed to identifying the needs and promoting the development of the profession and fellow historians and seeking ways for alliances and collaborations.