EDUCATION

1994-2000 Ph.D., University of Cincinnati. Dissertation Title: "Controlling Births, Policing Sexualities: A History of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1871-1946." Dissertation Supervisor, Professor Barbara N. Ramusack. (Degree awarded, December 2000)

Awarded Outstanding Dissertation Prize, Ohio Academy of History, April 2002.

1997 Graduate Certificate Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati.

1990 M.A. Modern Indian History, University of Delhi.

1988 B.A. (Honours) History, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Assistant Professor: Northern Arizona University, 2002-present

Visiting Assistant Professor: Northern Arizona University, 2001-02

Instructor: Northern Arizona University, 2000-01

Teaching Assistant: University of Cincinnati, 1994-97
 

PUBLICATIONS

"Rethinking Boundaries: Global and the Local in the History of Birth Control: An Indian Case Study," Journal of Women's History. Volume 14, No. 4, (Winter, 2003).

"Demographic Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle Class Advocates of Birth Control, 1877-1947," in Jim Mills and Satadru Sen eds., Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. London: Anthem Press. 2003.

"Contraception and Birth Control," Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. Berkshire Publishing Group, Forthcoming.

Book Reviews

Book Review. Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlands Indies 1900-1942. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2000. The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, (Spring 2004) Vol 5, No 1.

Book Review. Vern L. Bullough, Encyclopedia of Birth Control. California, ABC CLIO, Inc., 2001. Women's History Review. In Press.

1997 Book Review. Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth Century. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997. History Reviews On-Line, 4, 1 (Fall). http://www.depauw.edu/~dtrinkle/hrol/curr41.html Reprinted in The Kathmandu Post, (October 26, 1997).

PRESENTATIONS

2005 "Toward 2008: The Future of the Berks and Women's History," Conversational Panel, 13^th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2-5, 2005 at Scripps College, California.

2004 "Subaltern Medical Women in Late Colonial India," Panel Chair, Association for Asian Studies, San-Diego, March 4-7, 2004.

2003 "Decolonizing Theory," Discussion Leader, Southwest Women's History Colloquium, (SWHC) Flagstaff, September 20^th, 2003.

Gender, Sex and Nation: Politics of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1920-1947.
Paper presented at the Association of Asian Studies, March 2003, New York.

2002 Archival Voices and Ethnographic Disruptions in the History of Birth Control in Colonial India. Paper presented at Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, September 26-28, 2002, Provo, Utah. Also panel organizer.

Political Ambivalence and Negotiations: Indian Middle Class Feminism and Debates on Birth Control in Nationalist India, 1920s-1940s. Paper presented at the 12^th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 6-9, 2002 at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Also panel organizer.

2001 Demographic Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle Class Advocates of Birth Control, 1877-1947. Paper Presented at the Sixth Women in Asia Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, September 2001.

2000 Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism, and (Inter)nationalism in Early Twentieth Century India." Paper presented at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, March 9-12, 2000.

1999 Troubled History: Politics of Birth Control in Colonial India, 1920-47.Paper presented as invited participant, "International Conference on Population, Birth Control and Reproductive Health in Late Colonial India." School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K. November 18-19, 1999.

Rethinking National Feminist Histories: The Politics of Location and Boundaries." Paper presented as invited participant, CUNY Graduate Center Workshop: "Re-Envisioning Women's History: Working Seminars Across the Generations." March 12-13, 1999.
 

SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT

Feminist Theories and Methodologies (Graduate Seminar)

Introduction to Women's Studies (Women's Studies, Undergraduate)

Gender and Nationalisms (Upper Division Undergraduate Seminar)

Women in Asia (History, Undergraduate)

Women, Gender, and Ethnicity (Women's Studies Undergraduate Seminar)

World History-Modern Period  (History, Undergraduate)

Power, Culture, and Ideology (History, Graduate Seminar)

World History, Ancient Period ( Team Taught)
 

SELECTED ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

2004 Organized Research Grant, Northern Arizona University.

2003 Feminist Faculty of the Year. Associated Students for Women's Issues, NAU.

2002 Nominated for Louie Teaching Award for the Exceptional and the Extraordinary.

2002 Awarded Outstanding Dissertation Prize, Ohio Academy of History.

1998-99 Taft Graduate Travel Grant, University of Cincinnati.

1998 University Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati.

1997-1998 Taft Advanced Competitive Fellowship, University of Cincinnati.

1996 Mini-Grant, Friends of Women's Studies, Cincinnati.

1994-1997 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of History, University of Cincinnati.

SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Organizing Committee Member,13^th Berkshire Conference, 2003-05.

Berkshire Article Awards Committee, 2005.

Panel Organizer, 13^th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. 2005.

Women's Studies Search Committee, 2004-05.

Organizing Committee Member, SWHC, 2003.

Graduate Committee Member, Department of History, Northern Arizona University,2003-04.

Elected Faculty Senator, Northern Arizona University. 2001-present.

Steering Committee Member, Tri-University Women of Color Conference. 2002.

Women's Studies Steering Committee, Northern Arizona University. 2001-present.

Member, Women's Studies Masters Certificate Committee, NAU. 2002.

Member, Search Committee, Department of History, NAU, 2002-03.

Curriculum Committee, Department of History, NAU. 2001-present.

Panel Organizer, 12^thBerkshire Conference on the History of Women. 2002.

Panel Organizer, Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, 2003.
 

LANGUAGES

Native Fluency in Hindi, reading, writing, and conversational.

Fluent in spoken Urdu, with basic reading and writing skills. Passed University of Delhi, Urdu language competency examination, 1992-93.
 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1997-1998 Archival and ethnographic research for dissertation. Worked at national and provincial archives in India, U.S. and U.K., examining colonial records, medical journals, private papers, and women's journals in English and Hindi from the early twentieth century onwards. Ethnographic research in a tribal area of rural north India.

Summer 1995 Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Cincinnati. Collected and compiled visual images for transfer to CD ROM as teaching aids.

1990-1994 Researched and completed an M.Phil. thesis titled, "Indian Women: Subjects of Representation and Agents of Change, 1900-1947." Thesis supervisor, Professor Gyanendra Pandey.

1991-1992 Research Assistant, "Feminist Legal Theory and Practice in Women's Organizations in Delhi." Interviews with women from diverse social backgrounds on their perceptions of the legal system.
 

RELATED ACTIVITIES

1994-1995 Secretary, Graduate Students Association, Department of History University of Cincinnati.

1993 Conceived, organized, and produced a special issue on Communalism forThe Offspring, a supplement published by the Times of India, Delhi.

1991 Organized a two-day conference in Delhi University titled, Gender and Communalism, Past and Present.

1990 Participated in the Fourth All India Women's Conference, Calicut.

1986-1988 Secretary, History Society, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
 

REFEREES

Professor Barbara N. Ramusack, Department of History, University of Cincinnati. Barbara.Ramusack@uc.edu(513) 556-2140

Professor Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University. mis12@psu.edu  (814) 865-2278.

Professor Sheryl Lutjens, Director, Women's Studies, Northern Arizona University, Sheryl.Lutjens@nau.edu (928) 523-6918.

Professor Antoinette Burton, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.aburton@uiuc.edu (217) 333-8860

Professor John K. Leung, Department of History, Northern Arizona University. John.Leung@nau.edu (928) 523- 6209

Dr. Lesley Hall, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. London. http://www.lesleyahall.net/