Osama Siddiqui is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College, where he teaches and researches the history of the British Empire in India. His areas of focus include intellectual history, the history of ideas, and the history of economic thought. He is interested in thinking about how ideas travel and how they are transformed in different historical contexts.

His current book project is about the translation and reception of British economic ideas in colonial India. He looks at how economic thinkers like James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall, and others were translated into Indian languages like Urdu in the nineteenth century, and how Indian translators drew upon older Islamic and Indo-Persian conceptions of wealth and politics to make sense of modern economic thought.

He received his PhD in History from Cornell University. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Historical Association, and the Social Science Research Council.