VISITING SCHOLARS

Past Visiting

2010-2010

Ian Desai, PhD, History, University of Oxford, UK, 2009. His dissertation title is, “Producing the Mahatma: Communication, Community & Political Theatre Behind the Gandhi Phenomenon: 1893 – 1942”. His research interests include transnational history, cultural studies, book history, and social enterprise history. His two courses will be: Modern Indian History and Mahatma: The Making of a Modern Leader.

Mrinalini Rajagopalan, PhD Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2007. Her dissertation title is, “The Modern Lives of Medieval Monuments: The Intersection of Nation and Aesthetics in Delhi, India”. Her research interest include: the colonial legacies of urbanization and urbanism in South Asia and the Middle East; the contemporary ramifications of globalization and neo-liberalism in global urban contexts and the study of tourism in the constructions and contestations of urban space. She will be offering two courses: Cities in South Asia and Visual Cultures of Urban Modernity in South Asia.

Gijs Kruijtzer, PhD History, Leiden University, 2008. His dissertation title is, “Xenophobia in Seventeenth- Century India”. While he is in residence he will focus on a project which seeks to compare the Christian world where Latin was an important written language with the Islamic world where Persian was an important language. He will be offering the following courses: Islam in South Asia and Europeans in South Asia.

Stan Scott, PhD, Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, 1997. His dissertation title is, “Power and Delight: Vocal Training in North Indian Classical Music”. His research areas include vocal music of North India, Bengali folk song, Irish traditional music, American folk music, and musical transmission and pedagogy. He will be offering a course on Indian Musical Traditions with an emphasis on classical music in Spring 2011.