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Anupama Rao
Assistant Professor of History
Anupama Rao, assistant professor of history, joined the Barnard faculty in 2001. In addition to her teaching duties for the department of history, she is also affiliated with Barnard's programs in human rights studies and women's studies. Her teaching includes such courses as "Capitalism, Colonialism, and Culture: A Global History"; "Gender, Caste, and Nation"; and "Modern South Asia."
Professor Rao's scholarly interests include histories of gender, caste, and nationalism in South Asia, historical anthropology, political theory, law, human rights, and the anthropology of violence.
Professor Rao's work has been supported by Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has also received a Charter Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Oxford University.
Selected Publications
The Caste Question: Dalits and Politics in Modern India (University of
California Press (Spring 2009)
"Affect, Memory, and Materiality: An Essay on Archival Mediation," (a
review essay) Comparative Studies in Society and History, 50:2, April
2008.
"Who is the Dalit? The Emergence of a New Political Subject," in Claiming
Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India [for a
festschrift in honor of Eleanor Zelliot] Oxford University Press, 2008:
11-27.
"Ambedkar and the Politics of Minority: A Reading," in From the Colonial
to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition, eds. Dipesh
Chakrabarty, Rochona Mazumdar and Andrew Sartori, Oxford University Press, 2007: 137-158
"Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition," in Subaltern
Studies XIII (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005)
Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, ed.
with S. Pierce (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006)
Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism, part of a series on Indian feminism, ed. R. S. Rajan (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2003
[hardback]; paperback published Spring 2005 in India; co-published
internationally by Zed Books, Summer 2005)
"Violence, Vulnerability, and Embodiment," ed. with S. D'Cruze, special
issue of Gender and History 16 (November 2004)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of Michigan
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
South Asian history and anthropology
Gender