Zheyuan Deng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Global Islam track. He earned his B.A. in history and Arabic (2015) and M.A. in African history (2018) from Peking University, China. Currently he is writing his dissertation on the religious infrastructure of the Ahmadiyya movement in Nigeria. Based on archives and oral history interviews, he explores the ways in which Ahmadi Muslims mobilized religious resources to build religious headquarters, mosques, schools, and residential communities, as well as the transformative impact of these infrastructures. His other research interests include religious encounters, Afro-Asian (religious) connections, historiography and knowledge production in Nigeria. He has published an article (co-authored with Allen Xiao) The Religious Encounters of the New African Diaspora in China and Malaysia: An Exploratory Study of Migratory Subjectivity and Ideological Mobility in The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. In his leisure time, he is co-hosting a Mandarin Chinese podcast on Africa called 学非所用AfricaLounge.