Hardeep Dhillon is a historian of twentieth-century India. She completed her Bachelors from the University of California, Berkeley where she simultaneously studied South Asia and Religious Studies. Following two years of professional development in domestic and international policy and litigation, she pursued her Masters at the University of Chicago. Dhillon will begin doctoral work in Fall, 2014. Her research interests include minority communities, Islam, law, citizenship, secularism, and gender studies.