Almas Khan, Ph.D., J.D., M.S., and B.A.
- Assistant Professor of Law
- Expertise
Dr. Almas Khan works at the intersection of law, literature, and citizenship studies, researching how intellectual movements in law and letters have sparked the reimagination of U.S. citizenship since the Civil War, with a focus on African American, working-class, and women’s experiences. Dr. Khan holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, in addition to an M.A. in English (thesis with distinction) from the University of California, Irvine, and a B.A. in English with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa honors from Stanford University.
Dr. Khan has 15 years of teaching experience in law, literature, and composition. Prior to beginning at Bowen Law School in Fall 2021, Dr. Khan taught at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Virginia, the University of La Verne College of Law, and the University of Miami School of Law. Dr. Khan has taught students ranging from first-year undergraduates to international graduate students and advanced J.D. students. Dr. Khan’s teaching has applied insights from critical pedagogy and cultural legal studies to courses including U.S. constitutional law, judicial politics, and legal writing.
Dr. Khan’s scholarship often centralizes figures whose identity or disciplinary hybridity has resulted in their marginalization from conventional accounts of U.S. legal history and jurisprudence. Her book-in-progress, “An Intellectual Reconstruction: American Legal Realism, Literary Realism, and the Formation of Citizenship,” analyzes how major post-Civil War movements in American law and letters participated in the process of equitist national rebuilding through the seemingly insular process of disciplinary reformation.
Dr. Khan’s research has been published in several edited collections and in journals including the Chicago Journal of International Law, the Washburn Law Journal, and the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. Her scholarship has been supported by organizations including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Legal Writing Institute. She has also presented at conferences sponsored by the American Studies Association; the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities; and the African American Intellectual History Society.