Role
Member
Title
Chairperson & Assistant Professor, Department of Pakistan Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Region
Faisalabad (Lyallpur), Punjab, Pakistan
Khola Cheema currently serves as Chairperson and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pakistan Studies at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, in Bahawalnagar, Pakistan. Since 2010, she has worked as a researcher, lecturer and instructor.
Cheema completed her PhD in History at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, in 2021. She received two master’s degrees at University of the Punjab in Lahore, in 2009 and 2012.
Her research career has included positions at University of British Columbia, Canada, De Montfort University, England and a Fellow at SOAS University of London, England. As a student and researcher, she wrote, transliterated and edited academic papers on topics relating to Punjabi society, history and religion.
Cheema serves as the President & Founder of the Lyallpur Young Historians Club (LYHC). She is a member of the Editorial Board for the Punjabi magazine, ‘Kuknas.’ She is an advisor to the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) Performing Arts Society (at the Bahawalnagar campus) and a co-organizer of the ‘Lyallpur Punjabi Sulaikh Mela’ (‘Lyallpur Punjabi Literary Festival’).
Cheema was the 2021 Central Jury Chair of the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature.
