Durba Ghosh
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Education
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Ph. D., |
May 2000 |
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M. A., |
May 1994 |
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B. A., |
May 1989 |
Academic
Appointments
Department of History,
Associate Professor 2008-
Department of
History, Assistant Professor 2005 - 2008
Department of
History, Assistant Professor
Department of
Women's Studies, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow
History and
Literature Program, Lecturer, British and British Imperial History
Department of
History,
Department of
History, Visiting Lecturer
Department of
History, Teaching Assistant Spring
1998
Department of
History, Teaching Assistant Spring
1996
Sex and the Family in Colonial
Co-editor with
Dane Kennedy, Decentring Empire:
“Introduction,” in Decentring
Empire:
“Terrorism in
Bengal: imperial strategies of political violence and its containment in the
interwar years,” in Decentring Empire (
“Exhibiting
Asia: Museums, Consumption, and Commerce,” in Narrating the Nation in Public
Spaces: Memory, Race, and Empire, edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Knauer (
“Who counts as
‘native?’: gender, race, and subjectivity in colonial
“National Narratives and the Politics of
Miscegenation:
“Gender and Colonialism: expansion or marginalization?” The Historical Journal 47, 3 (September 2004): 737-55.
“Decoding the
Nameless: Gender, Subjectivity, and Historical Methodologies in Reading the
Archives of Colonial India,” in A New Imperial History: Culture,
Identity, Modernity, 1660-1840, edited by Kathleen Wilson (
“Household
Crimes and Domestic Order: Keeping the Peace in Colonial Calcutta, c.1770-
c.1840,” Modern Asian Studies 38, 3
(July 2004): 598-624. [refereed]
“Making and
Un-making Loyal Subjects: Pensioning Widows and Educating Orphans in Early
Colonial
Works in
Progress
Revolutionaries
and Freedom Fighters: nationalism in
“Cosmopolitanism and its discontents: the case of
Book reviews
Review essay for the Journal of Women’s History of the following
titles: Gender History in Practice: historical perspectives on bodies, class,
and citizenship, by Kathleen Canning;
Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren:
the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of Gender, by Kate Davies; Women and the Historical Enterprise in
America: gender, race and the politics of memory, 1880-1945, by Julie des Jardins; British
Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, by Devoney
Looser; Women’s History in Global
Perspective, volumes 1-3, edited by Bonnie G. Smith; Perils of Pankratova: some stories from the
annals of Soviet historiography, by Reginald Zelnik.
Book review of Behind
the Mask: the cultural
definition of the legal subject in colonial
Book review of Specters of Mother India: the global restructuring of an empire, Mrinalini Sinha, Journal of British Studies 46 (2007): 726-28.
Book review of Men, Women, and Domestics: Articulating
Middle-Class Identity in Colonial
Book review of Unfamiliar
Relations: family and history in
Book review of
Empire Families: Britons and Late
Imperial India, by Elizabeth Buettner, and Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in
Book review of
Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600 – 1857, by
Michael H. Fisher, Journal of Imperialism and Commonwealth History 33: 2
(2005): 268-70.
Book review of
The Worlds of the East India Company,
edited by Nigel Rigby, et al, Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History 4 (Fall 2003).
Book review of
Women Travellers
in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze, by
Indira Ghose, Journal of Asian Studies 60:1 (February
2001): 264-65.
Book review of
Gender, Slavery and the Law in Colonial
Fellowships
and Research Grants
American Philosophical Society, sabbatic
fellowship Fall 2009
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) 2008-2009
Senior Research Fellowship
Fulbright Faculty Research Fellowship (declined) 2008-2009
Faculty Research Grant, Cornell University 2006-2007
LaFeber Research Grant,
Faculty Research Grant, Wellesley College 2000-2001, 2001-2003
American Historical Association (AHA)
Bernadotte
E. Schmidt Research Grant Summer
1999
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Dissertation-writing
Fellowship 1998-99
UC Chancellor’s Dissertation-writing Fellowship (declined) 1998-99
Francis and Kathleen Rauch Fellowship in History Fall 1997
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) 1996-97
Junior Research Fellowship
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) (Hindi, Urdu)
1993-94,
1994-95, 1995-96
Relevant
activities and professional membership
Member,
General Book Review Editor, Journal
of Colonialism and Colonial History
Elected member, South Asia Council, 2006-2009, Association of Asian
Studies
Editorial Board member, Journal of
Women’s History
Editorial Board member, Critical
Asian Studies
Editorial Board member, “Empires in Perspective,” series for
Pickering & Chatto
Conference Organizer, “How Empire Mattered: Imperial Structures and Globalization in the Era of British Imperialism,” University of California-Berkeley, April 4-5, 2003.
Member, Program Committee for
Articles
reviewer, Gender and History; Journal of Women's History; Comparative Studies in Society and History;
Journal of British Studies; Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of the History of
Sexuality
Member of American Historical Association (AHA), Association of Asian
Studies (AAS), American Association of University Women (AAUW), and