Education:
·Ph.D. 2002 University of Michigan (Dissertation: “Vernacular Futures: Orientalism, History, and Language in Colonial South India”)
·M.A. 1996 University of Michigan
·B.A. 1992 University of Michigan
Areas of Interest
South Asia, Colonial India, British Empire, Historical Method/Historiography, Philosophies of History, Cultural and Intellectual History
Awards and Fellowships:
- 2005-2006 Kluge Fellow, The John W. Kluge Center for Research, Library of Congress
- 2004-2005 Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University
- 1998-1999 American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship
- 1997 Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship Award, Department of History, University of Michigan
- 1996 Social Science Research Council Pre-dissertation Fellowship Award
Publications and Work in Progress:
- “Vernacular Futures: Colonial Philology and the Idea of History in Nineteenth-Century South India,” Indian Economic and Social History Review 42:4 (2005).
- “The Question of History in Pre-colonial India,” History and Theory 46 (October 2007).
- “The Kavali Brothers: Intellectual Life in Early Colonial Madras,” The Madras School of Orientalism: Producing Knowledge in Colonial South India, ed. Thomas Trautmann (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2009).
- “Excavations of British and Indian Intellectual Traditions in Thomas R. Trautmann’s Languages & Nations,” Conceptualizing South Asia’s Past: In Honor of Thomas R. Trautmann, ed. by Cynthia Talbot (Yoda Press, forthcoming 2009).
- “Imperial Ideology and the Uses of Rome in Discourses on Britain’s Indian Empire,” Hegemony & Cornucopia: Classical Scholarship and the Ideology of Imperialism, eds. Mark Bradley and Emma Reisz (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2010).
- “Estranged Pasts: Archive and Historical Time in Colonial India” (Book manuscript under preparation).
- “Re-reading Historical Narrative in Pre-colonial India,” History and Theory (Forthcoming, October 2007)
- Review of Antoinette Burton, Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India (2003) for Social History (2005)
- Review of Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter, eds., Archives of Empire, Volume I: From the East India Company to the Suez Canal (2004) for South Asia (2005), Vol. XXVIII(3)
- Review of V. Narayana Rao, Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India (2003) for Journal of Asian Studies (2004), 63(3): 832-4
- Review of Alok Rai, Hindi Nationalism (2000) for Contemporary South Asia (2003), 12(3): 432-4
- Review of Peter L. Schmitthenner, Telugu Resurgence: C.P. Brown and Cultural Consolidation in Nineteenth-century South India (2001) for Contemporary South Asia (2002), 11(3): 375-6
Department
of History