Durba Ghosh
Associate Professor
Office: 321 McGraw Hall
Phone: 254-5092
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: dg256@cornell.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2000
M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994
B.A. Wesleyan University, 1989
Courses
| Fall 2008: | On Leave | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2009: | On Leave |
Recent Publications
Sex and the Family in Colonial India: the making of empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Decentering Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World, co-editor with Dane Kennedy (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
"Terrorism in Bengal: imperial strategies of political violence and its containment in the interwar years," in Decentering Empire (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
"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 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).
"Who counts as 'native?': gender, race, and subjectivity in colonial India," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 6.3 (2005).
"National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India,"in Archive Stories, edited by Antoinette Burton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
"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 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
"Household Crimes and Domestic Order: Keeping the Peace in Colonial Calcutta, c.1770- c.1840,"Modern Asian Studies 38, 3 (July 2004): 598-624.
"Making and Un-making Loyal Subjects: Pensioning Widows and Educating Orphans in Early Colonial India,"Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 31 (January 2003): 1-28.