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.
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's College, University of Delhi.
SELECTED ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
2002-03 Faculty Feminist of the Year, NAU.
2002 Nominated for the LOUIE "Exceptional and the Extraordinary" Teaching Award, NAU.
2002 Outstanding Dissertation Award, 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.
1994-1996 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of History, University
of Cincinnati.
PUBLICATIONSAND PRESENTATIONS
"Rethinking Boundaries: Global and the Local in the History of Birth Control: An Indian Case Study," Journal of Women's History. Vol 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. Forthcoming.
Book Review. Vern L. Bullough, Encyclopedia of Birth Control. California, ABC CLIO, Inc., 2001. Women's History Review. In Press.
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 12th 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.
1997 Book Review. Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth Century by Mrinalini Sinha. History Reviews On-Line, 4, 1 (Fall). http://www.depauw.edu/~dtrinkle/hrol/curr41.html
Reprinted in The
Kathmandu Post, (October 26, 1997).
LANGUAGES
Native Fluency in Hindi, reading, writing, and conversational.
Fluent in spoken Urdu, with basic reading skills. Passed University of Delhi, Urdu language competency examination, 1992-93.
SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT
Feminist Theories and Methodologies (Graduate Seminar, Spring 03)
Independent Study: A Cultural Analysis of Women's Experiences of a College Contraceptive Class Intervention. (Graduate, Spring 03)
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 ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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, 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. 2002.
Panel Organizer, Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, 2003.
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 for The Offspring, a supplement published by theTimes 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's College, University of Delhi.
REFEREES
Professor Barbara N. Ramusack, Head, Department of History, University of Cincinnati. Barbara.Ramusack@uc.edu (513) 556-2140.
Dr. Lesley Hall, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. London. lesleyah@primex.co.uk +44(0) 20 7611 8582.
Professor Carole McCann, Chair, Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Mccann@umbc.edu (410) 544-2161.
Professor Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University mis12@psu.edu (814) 865-2278.
Professor Antoinette Burton, Department of History , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. aburton@uiuc.edu (217) 333-8860.
Professor Ann Twinam, Department of History, University of Cincinnati. Ann.Twinam@uc.edu(513) 556-2142.
Professor Sheryl Lutjens, Director, Women's Studies, Northern Arizona University, Sheryl.Lutjens@nau.edu. (928) 523-6918.
Professor John K. Leung, Chair, Department of History, Northern Arizona
University. John.Leung@nau.edu
(928) 523- 6209.