Lecturer

Modern South Asia

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1-3 PM

Office: Randall Hall 218

Phone: (434) 924-6417

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: EDR6jvirginia.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of London 2008
M.A. University of London 2005
B.A. Connecticut College 2003

Visiting Research Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 2010 (Upcoming).     

Research Affiliate, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, UK, 2009-.

Summer Scholar, International School for Jain Studies, New Delhi, 2009.      

Bursary, British Association for South Asian Studies, 2009.

Teaching Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2008-09.

Research Student Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2004-08.

Honorarium, Yale University South Asian Studies Council, 2007.        

Travel Grant, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2007.

Fieldwork Award, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2005-06.

Conference Grant, Jadavpur University Calcutta, 2005.

Travel to Israel Exchange Studentship (TIES), University of Haifa, 2003.

Prize for Excellence in Asian Studies, Connecticut College, 2003.         

Academic Papers and Publications

“The Impact of Hunting and Conservation on South Asian Wildlife, 1857-1947”, in Hunting and Conservation: A Reader, ed. Daniel Brockington and Paul Robbins. Bloomington: Indian University Press, 2009. In press.

“Wildlife Conservation, the Preservation of Privilege, and Endangered Forest Societies in Colonial Central India”, Cambridge Centre for South Asian Studies Occasional Papers 26 (2008): 28pp.

“On the State and South Asian Studies”, SOAS South Asia Newsletter (April 2007): 21.

“Book Review: B. B. Chaudhuri and Arun Bandopadhyay, ed., Tribes, Forest and Social Formation in Indian History”, Conservation and Society 4, no. 4 (December 2006): 630-633.

“The Site of the Slaughter: Hunting over Water Bodies in Modern India’s Environmental History”, in History of Waters in South Asia: Climate, Ecology, Deforestation, Agriculture and the Management of Nature, ed. Ranjan Chakrabarti. Delhi: Manohar (forthcoming).

Content Consultant for Sue Vander Hook, Mahatma Gandhi. ABDO: Minneapolis, 2010 (forthcoming).

“Book Review: Gunnel Cederlof, Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests over Nature”, Indian Economic and Social History Review 47 (2010). (forthcoming).

“Book Review: Monirul Hussain, Interrogating Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance In North East India”, Journal of South Asian Development Studies (forthcoming).

Invited Lectures

“Perfumed the Axe that Laid it Low: the Endangerment of Sandalwood in South Asian and Global Context”, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, October 2009

“Lesser Known Extinction Crises in South Asia and the Role of Environmental Historians”, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, March 2009; Department of History, University of Cape Town, March 2009

“Wildlife Conservation, the Preservation of Privilege, and Endangered Forest Societies in Colonial Central India”, South Asian Studies Seminar, Cambridge University, April 2008

“Ahimsa and Shikar in Pre-Independence India”, South Asian Studies Seminar, Yale University, October 2007

“The Mosaic of Human Impacts on Wildlife Populations in Late Colonial India”, South Asian History Seminar, SOAS, January 2007

“Destroying a Symbol of Royal India: English Aristocrats, Tiger Hunting, and the High Noon of Empire”, South Asian History Seminar, SOAS, May 2005

Conference Papers

“Perfumed the Axe that Laid it Low: the Endangerment of the Sandal Tree in South Indian and Global Context”, British Association for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2009

“Ecocide and Ethnocide? Pairing Ecological and Social Transformation in the Hills of Colonial Western India”, Annual South Asian Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2008

“Endangered Species and Societies? Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses on Conservation and Social Change in Central India”, Nature, Knowledge, Power Research Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 2008

“Tigers vs. Tribals? The Historical Precedents of a Contemporary Conservation Debate in India”, European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), Amsterdam, June 2007

“Imperial Visions of Political Ecology in Mughal India: Inventing the British ‘Empire of Nature’”, British Association for South Asian Studies, Clare College, Cambridge, March 2007

“The Site of the Slaughter: Relating Hunting and Water in Modern India’s Environmental History”, International Conference on the Histories of Water in South Asia, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, March 2006

“Hunting with the Bhils of Rajasthan: Writing Environmental History from Below”, 5th International Conference in Rajasthani Studies, Jaipur, December 2005