Layli Uddin is a social and intellectual historian of modern south Asia, bringing together interdisciplinary questions on religion, class, mass politics and popular cultures. Layli joined the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in 2020. Her project, Red Islam: Socialist Internationalism and Islam in South Asia, 1920-1978, offers a transnational history of Islamic socialism. She completed her PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2016. Her dissertation explored the political mobilisation of subaltern classes in the making and unmaking of Pakistan from the 1930s up to 1971. She is also currently working on her first book based on the PhD, Land of Eternal Eid. Layli also holds degrees from LSE, Harvard University and Oxford University.