Ali Raza is a Pakistani historian and an Associate Professor at LUMS University in Lahore. He is interested in utopian imaginations and visions of freedom and decolonization in the 20th century. His first book, Revolutionary Pasts (2020), explored stories of communist internationalism and decolonization in South Asia. He is currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, where he is working on his second book on fascism and anti-colonialism in South Asia.