My work intersects with key issues of race, migration and the circulation of knowledge across colonial and postcolonial South Asia and the Global South. Just with the center’s research focus on engaging with how racial and ethnic identities are formed, my work is interested in how migrant communities (and with it different ethnic, religious, and racial make up) came to find the scientific diasporas. I study how these migrants shaped scientific knowledge, how together through building alternative scientific networks they contested and destabilized empire. They drew on Islam and vernacular forms of knowledge traditions to reframe ideas about race, ethnicity, and religion in the new scientific institutions they founded during the decolonization period.