Ayesha Pasha

Ayesha Pasha is a first-year Ph.D. student in the U.S. history field. Her work examines the development of the laws of slavery and religion, and their influence by pro- and anti-slavery Christianity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her undergraduate thesis, Seek Ye First the Kingdom of Heaven (awarded the James Birdsall Weter Prize) investigated the impact of the Second Great Awakening on the modes of worship and theologies of enslaved Virginians which gave rise to the Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831. 

At Stanford, Ayesha is also a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and the recipient of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) and American Religions in a Global Context Fellowships.