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Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for South Asian Studies

• Fields of Study

  • South Asia
  • Colonialism and Imperialism
  • World and Global
  • Women's Studies

• About

  Selected Publications:

  "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)

• Education

  • Master's from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook

• Research Areas of Interest

  • South Asia, colonialism and imperialism, world and global history, women's studies