Daniel Waqar was recently named a 2025 Emerging Scholar by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at Tufts University. His research examines the history of British colonial-era unlawful assembly laws in South Asia and their continued use by governments around the world today. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Award supports doctoral candidates in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
