Literature and languages of North India and Central Asia; lexicography; Mughal and early colonial South Asian history; South Asian Islam, Sufism and epigraphy
“Vernacular Literacy and the Urdu Public Text,” a book-length study of the Urdu language through inscriptions, and other non-paper sources
“Two New Kinds of Fire: Syphilis and Capsicum in Early Hindvi Vocabularies,” forthcoming in Objects, Images, Stories: Simon Digby’s Historical Method, edited by Francesca Orsini
(with Lisa Mitchell) “The Lexicography of the Languages of South Asia from c. 1750 to Present,” forthcoming in The Cambridge World History of Lexicography, edited by John Considine
“Qaṣīda dar luġāt-i hindī,” Perso-Indica. An Analytical Survey of Persian Works on Indian Learned Traditions, edited by Fabrizio Speziale and Carl W. Ernst (2020)
“Lexicography, Urdu,”, in Encyclopædia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson, Leiden: Brill, 2020.
“Precarity and Professionalism: Steingass’s Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892),” In Nineteenth-Century Lexicography: Between Science and Fiction, edited by Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pages 236-254.
Hakala, Walter and Lisa Mitchell, “The Lexicography of the Languages of South Asia from c. 1750 to Present,” The Cambridge World History of Lexicography, edited by John Considine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019): 388-413.
“Ajay Čand-nāma,” in Perso-Indica. An Analytical Survey of Persian Works on Indian Learned Traditions, edited by Fabrizio Speziale and Carl W. Ernst (2018).
A Masnavi in Praise of Coffee: [Prepared] at the bidding of Nawab ‘Umdat Al-Mulk Amir Khan Bahadur by Shah Hatim (1699-1783).” Translated with M.A. Naru. Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 4 (2014), pages 425-27.
University at Buffalo Council on International Studies and Programs Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education, 2020
University at Buffalo Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development & Humanities Institute Research Funding in the Arts & Humanities, 2019-2020
University at Buffalo Baldy Center Research Grant, 2018-2019
University at Buffalo Experiential Learning Network Faculty Fellow, 2018-2019