He holds a PhD in South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge, and his research interests focus on religious and social transformation within Islam in the Indian subcontinent from the mid-nineteenth century, including concepts of law, domesticity, and migration. He is the author of Shi‘a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Cambridge, 2012); he has also contributed chapters to books including Religion and the Household: Studies in Church History (Woodbridge, 2014) and Nationalism in the Vernacular: Hindi, Urdu and the Literature of Indian Freedom (New Delhi, 2010), as well as articles to journals including the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and Modern Asian Studies. Professor Justin Jones has been a Fellow of the Shīʿah Institute since January 2016.