Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
[email protected]Office Information:
1743 Haven Hall
phone: 734.615.3451
Asia; Global & World ; Gender Studies & Sexuality; Intellectual & Cultural History ; Nations & Nationalism; Politics & Power; History
Education/Degree:
Master's from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony BrookSelected Publications:
Political Imaginaries in Twentieth Century India. Edited Manu Goswami & Mrinalini Sinha. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
“Afterword: The Discipline of the Conjuncture” in Ravinder Kaur & Nayanika Mathur eds. The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century (Gurugram: Penguin Viking, 2022)
“Nations and Nationalism” in Bonnie Smith & Nova Robinson eds. Routledge Global History of Feminism (New York: Routledge, 2022)
“Premonitions of the Past,” Journal of Asian Studies 74: 4 (Nov 2015)
"Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key," in Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons, edited by Isabel Hofmeyr & A. Burton (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014)
“Whatever Happened to the Third British Empire? Empire, Nation, Redux” in Writing Imperial Histories, edited by Andrew Thompson (Manchester, UK: Manchester Univ. Press, 2013)
“A Global Perspective on Gender: What’s South Asia Got to do with it?” in South Asian Feminisms, edited by Ania Loomba & Ritty A. Lukose (Duke University Press, 2012)
"Historically Speaking: Gender and Citizenship in Colonial India," in The Question of Gender, edited by Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)
"The Strange Death of an Imperial Ideal: The Case of Civis Britannicus" in Modern Makeovers: Handbook of Modernity in South Asia, edited by Saurabh Dube (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006)
Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1995)
Affiliation(s)
- Center for South Asian Studies
- Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
- English Language and Literature
- Women's and Gender Studies
Field(s) of Study
- South Asia
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- World and Global
- Women's Studies