Seminar Leaders
Fall 2006: Subaltern Citizens
Gyanendra Pandey
Gyanendra Pandey, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History (B.A., University of Delhi, 1969; D.Phil., Oxford University, 1975); South Asian history; violence, citizenship and marginality. He is the author of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories [forthcoming]; The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (rev. ed. 2002); Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001); Memory, History and the Question of Violence (1999); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990);and many collaborative works and articles. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1970-73). Before coming to Emory he taught at the University of Delhi and at Johns Hopkins.
Spring 2007: Gender and Globalization & Location
Deepika Bahri
Professor Bahri teaches and publishes in the area of postcolonial studies and critical theory. She has co-edited Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality (Temple UP, 1996) and Realms of Rhetoric (SUNY P, 2003), and published in numerous journals and collections. Author of Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature (U of Minnesota P, 2003), she is currently researching the impact of media technologies on postcolonial identity. HIV/AIDS in developing countries is a secondary research interest. Based on preliminary research in this area, she has written a report entitled AIDS Prevention and Control in Tamil Nadu for USAID/CDC (2002).
Carla Freeman
Carla Freeman earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University in 1993. Her recent publications include a book, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2000), and several articles on gender, globalization, labor, and identity in the Caribbean, in such journals as Signs, Journal of Women, Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, Critique of Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology. Her current research focuses on gender, class and entrepreneurship in a multi-sited study of the Caribbean ( Barbados, Puerto Rico, and Martinique), and a study of transnational suitcase traders, also in the Caribbean region.