Faculty and Staff Directory

Degrees

Ph.D., History; University of Hawaii (2007)

Research Interests

• Indian nationalism(s); Hindu national identity; South Asian historiography, Colonial India
• Modern European Imperialism, British Empire, Post-colonial studies, Global History, Nationalism and National Identity

Courses Taught

Spring 2009:
HIST 104: Global History Since 1500
HIST 299: Contested Histories
HIST 300: Capitalism and Empire: Trade and Colonialism in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, c. 1450-1850

Fall 2008:
HIST 104: Global History Since 1500
HIST 299: Contested Histories
HIST 300: History of Modern South Asia, c. 1500 C.E.-2000 C.E.

Spring 2008:
HIST 104: Global History Since 1500
HIST 299: From Colony to Nation: A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement, c. 1885-1947
HIST 299: Contested Histories: sites, symbols and events in historical representation

Fall 2007:
HIST 104: Global History Since 1500
HIST 300: Empire and Imperialism: History, Culture, and Political Economy
HIST 300: British Colonial India, c. 1757-1947

Publications

• "Gandhi: violence/non-violence and visions for the future," A Season of Non-Violence, Loyola University, Chicago, February 4, 2008
• "V.D. Savarkar and the Indian War of Independence:  Contrasting Perspectives on an Emergent Composite State," [revised version] The Revolt of 1857: Re-thinking colonial resistance, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, November 26-28, 2007
• Discussant, "Research Methods and Strategies in South Asian Legal Studies," South Asian Legal Studies Pre-Conference Workshop, 36th Annual Conference of South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 11, 2007.
• V.D. Savarkar and the Indian War of Independence:  Contrasting Perspectives on an Emergent Composite State." Conference: "Mutiny at the Margin": New Perspectives on the Indian uprising of 1857, at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-26 July 2007.
• Before the B.J.P.: V.D. Savarkar and Hindutva," paper delivered at the British Association for South Asian Studies, Oxford, England, April 2003.
• "Resistance and the Rhetoric of Globalization: Contrasting Discourses of the Sangh Parivar and the National Alliance of People's Movement," paper delivered at the 29th Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, October 2000.
• "The Sangh Parivar and the Rhetoric of Globalization," paper delivered at the 17th Annual Center for South Asian Studies Symposium at the University of Hawaii, April 2000
• "Counter-hegemonic Discourse of the Dalit Panthers," paper delivered at the 9th Annual Center for South Asian Studies Symposium at the University of Hawaii, April 1992