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Teaching and Research InterestsModern South Asian History; Colonial and Postcolonial Cultural Studies; South Asian Capitalism and Cultural/Political Modernity; Law and Culture in South Asia; South Asian Nationalisms; History of Rights Discourses; Critical Approaches to Gender, Development and Human Rights; Feminist and Social Theory; History, Epistemology and Ethics DegreesB.A. (Columbia College, Columbia University) Selected PublicationsHedging Bets: Law, Market Ethics and the Staging of Capital in Late Colonial India (book forthcoming) “History and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Limits, Secret, Value” in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 4(2) “Culture and Colonial/Postcolonial Governmentality,” forthcoming in volume on 9/11 in Historical Context (University of Toronto Press) “The Second Generation Speaks” in Carla Petievich, ed. The Expanding Landscape: South Asians and the Diaspora (New Delhi: Manohar, 1999) Current ResearchHistory of Rights Discourse in South Asia, esp. the Gendered Historical Production “Rights” and “Culture” as Distinct Value-Systems; the Relationship of Literary and Historical Methodologies in the Production of Truth/Testimony; Western Political/Social Theory 18-20th Centuries, Postcolonial Critique, and Alternative Modernities.
Phone: 416-946-8988 Teaching and Research InterestsPostcolonial statecraft and the cultural politics of written language in Tamil-speaking South India. DegreesPhD (University of Michigan) Selected PublicationsPlease check back soon for information. Current ResearchProfessor Cody is now completing a project on rural literacy activism in the Arivoli Iyakkam (The Enlightenment Movement), in which he examines the centrality of written language in efforts to democratize knowledge and reshape district governance. His new project will focus on the social history and contemporary political economy of language in Tamil daily newspaper circulation in small towns and cities.
Teaching and Research InterestsPlease check back soon for information. DegreesPlease check back soon for information. Selected PublicationsPlease check back soon for information. Current ResearchPlease check back soon for information.
Teaching and Research InterestsSouth Asian art and architecture, historiography and production of knowledge, 19th-century photography, Contemporary and Post colonial visual practice . DegreesB.A. (McGill University) Selected Publications"Producing the 'Native Craftsman' in Colonial South Asia: Art Education and the Decline of South Asian Art." In Satadru Sen and James Mills, eds., Confronting the Body: The Experience of Physicality in Modern South Asia. London: Anthem Press, 2004, pp 118-134. "Producing 'Tradition' through Illustrations of South Asia's Visual Past and Present: 'The Journal of Indian Art and Industry' and the Production of Knowledge in the
Late Nineteenth Century." In Julie F. Codell, ed., Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press. Associated University Press, 2003, "Shelley Bahl, Zarina Bhimji, Vivan Sundaram," ArtAsiaPacific (January 2003). Current Research19th-century Photography; Art Education and Production of Art Historical Knowledge; Colonialism and Modernity
Teaching and Research InterestsThe Mahabharata and the Ramayana (Hindu epics); Hindu Ethics; Gender Issues in Hinduism; Religion and Sexuality. DegreesB.A. (Calgary) Selected Publications"Women, Smelly Ascetics and God: The Subversive Nature of Virture in the Mahabharata". Forthcoming in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. The Dharma of Ethics, the Ethics of Dharma: Quizzing the Ideals of Hinduism". Journal of Religious Ethics. Fall 2002. 30.3:347-372. Current Research
Teaching and Research InterestsProf Emmrich specializes in religious practice in Nepal, particularly the everyday rituals and tantric traditions of Newar Buddhists, as well as in Buddhist philosophy dealing with questions of time and causation in the Theravāda Buddhist texts of ancient and medieval South and Southeast Asia. Degrees
Selected PublicationsAll the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men. The 2004 Red Matsyendranātha Incident in Lalitpur. Reprint of (1) in Whe Rituals Go Wrong. The Dynamics of Ritual Failure. Ute Hüsken (Ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill 2007, 135-171. (With Adele Fiske) The Use of Buddhist Scriptures in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's "The Buddha and his Dhamma". Reconstructing the World: Dr. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India. Surendra Jondhale & Johannes Beltz (Hrsg.) Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003; 97-119. When Two Strong Men Stand Face to Face. The Indologist, the Pandit and the Re-Making of the Jaina Scholarly Tradition. Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia. Federico Squarcini (Ed.). Kykéion Studi e Testi. Scienze delle Religioni, 1.3) Firenze: Firenze University Press & Munshiram Manoharlal. 2005; 571-587.Please check back soon for information. Current ResearchChristoph Emmrich currently works on Buddhist rituals for Newar girls in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal) in the their relationship with marriage, image consecration and ordination practices, particularly dealing with questions of childhood and gender, body and anxiety, the normativity and usage of ritual manuals, shared and parallel religious traditions as well as with the theory and historiography of religious practice.
Teaching and Research InterestsResearch interests span Tibetan Buddhist religion, history, literature and medicine, and the history of medicine in India and Tibet. Degrees2004 -
Ph.D., Religious Studies (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) Selected Publications"Ordering human growth in Tibetan medical and religious embryologies," in Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine, ed. Elizabeth Furdel. Brill Publishers (2005). Review, Pilgrims, Patrons and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions, Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara, eds, University of British Columbia Press . University of Toronto Quarterly 74.1 (2004/2005) 328-329. “What is Bon Medicine?” with Mona Schrempf, International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 30 (2003). Current ResearchPlease check back soon.
Teaching and Research InterestsGlobalization and Neo-liberalism; Nationalism and Modernity; Urban Space and Design DegreesB.Sc. (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) Selected Publications“Post-colonialism and Diaspora”, University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall 2003. “Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka circa 1989”, Radical History Review, 82(Winter 2002) “Urban Space and Political Consciousness”, Review of Radical Political Economy (Forthcoming 2003/04) Current ResearchNational Ideology in Sri Lanka
Teaching and Research InterestsSouth Asian visual culture, cinema and contemporary art DegreesPh.D. Art History and Theory (University of Sydney) Selected PublicationsGods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Current ResearchGiant religious statues in post-liberalization India ; art and religion; landscape and the career of Romanticism in post/colonial India .
Teaching and Research InterestsSocial and Cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ History, Anthropology and History, Post-Colonial Studies, Food History, Labour History, South Asian Studies, Race, Gender and Family History, Transnational and Diaspora Studies DegreesPh.D (History), St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, 2003 Selected PublicationsComing soon. Current ResearchComing soon.
Teaching and Research InterestsPostcolonial Literature, South Asian Writing, Fiction; Contemporary Tamil Literature; Southeast African Writing DegreesB.A. Selected PublicationsCounter-realism and Indo-Anglican Writing (2002) Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz (1997) Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World (1995) Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose (1993) Current ResearchSouth Asian Literature
Teaching and Research InterestsTeaches social, cultural and intellectual history of colonial and post-colonial South Asia. Research interests focus on broad theoretical questions relating to family, gender, law, the social and cultural history of property and popular culture in colonial South Asia. DegreesPh.D. (Cambridge) Selected Publications"Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India" (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002) “Taming the Dangerous Rajput: Family, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth Century North India”, in H-Fisher Tine and Michael Mann (eds), Colonialism as a Civilising Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India (London: Anthem Press, 2003) “Rajput Lineages, Banditry and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century British Bundelkhand,” in Studies in History 15.1 (1999):pp. 75-108 “Crime and Law: British Policy and the Female Infanticide Act of 1870”, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 1994, Vol. 1, Pt. 2, pp. 169-93 Current ResearchCurrently working on a new project, provisionally entitled ‘Reconstituting Kinship Ties, Property Law, Gender and Family in Colonial North India
Teaching and Research InterestsRestructuring of Biodiversity Conservation DegreesComing soon.
Teaching and Research Interests"Mixed race" identity, media and minority representation, critical journalism, women of colour in geography. DegreesBA (Hons) Dalhousie Selected Publications2005: “Mixed metaphors: situating mixed race identity,” in J. Lee and J. Lutz (eds). Situating “Race” and Racisms in Space, Time and Theory (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press): 77-94. 2005: “Gillian Rose,” in P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin and G. Valentine (eds) Key Thinkers on Space and Place (London: Sage): 226-231. 2005: “David Sibley,” in P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin and G. Valentine (eds) Key Thinkers on Space and Place (London: Sage): 258-264. 2005: “Judith Butler” in P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin and G. Valentine (eds) Key Thinkers on Space and Place (London: Sage): 65-72. Current ResearchPlease check back soon for information.
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Archaeology, Ancient Technology, Ancient & Historic Complex Societies (States & Urbanism); Ancient & Historic Regional Inter-Connections
B.A. (Rice University)
M.Sc. (Institute of Archaeology, University College-London)
M.A. & Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
in press - Comparing Landscapes of Transportation: Riverine-oriented and land-oriented systems in the Indus Civilization and the Mughal Empire. In press for forthcoming: An Odessey of Space. ed. E. Robertson. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Chacmool Conference, 2001. University of Calgary Press.
2000 - Reassessing the Urban Structure of Harappa: Evidence from Craft Production Distribution. In: South Asian Archaeology 1997, ed. Maurizio Taddei & Giuseppe De Marco. Rome: Istituto Italian per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO) & Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. Pp. 77-100.
2000 - Massimo Vidale & Heather M.-L. Miller. On the development of Indus technical virtuosity and its relation to social structure. In: South Asian Archaeology 1997, ed. Maurizio Taddei & Giuseppe De Marco. Rome: Istituto Italian per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO) & Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. Pp. 115-132.
1999 - Jonathan M. Kenoyer & Heather M.-L. Miller. Metal Technologies of the Indus Valley Tradition in Pakistan and Western India. In: The Archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World, ed. Vincent C. Pigott. Philadelphia: University Museum Publications, University of Pennsylvania. Pp. 107-151.
1997 - Pottery Firing Structures (Kilns) of the Indus Civilization During the Third Millennium B.C. In: Prehistory & History of Ceramic Kilns, ed. Prudence Rice & W. David Kingery. Ceramics & Civilization Series, Volume VII. Columbus, OH: American Ceramic Society. Pp. 41-71.
Ancient Technology, particularly pyrotechnology of Indus Civilization; Trade & Travel Networks of Ancient & Historic South & Central Asia
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Gender and development; Comparative market regulation; Financial restructuring; Planning history and theory; South Asia
Ph.D. Cornell University (1999)
M.R.P. Cornell University (1992)
B.A Cornell University (1987)
Rankin, K. (forthcoming). "Cultures of economies: gender and socio-spatial change in Nepal", Gender, Place and Culture, 10(2).
Ranking, K. (2002). "Social capital, microfinance, and the politics of development", Journal of Feminist Economics 8(1), 1-24.
Rankin, K. 2001. “Planning and the Politics of Social Needs: Lessons from Financial Market Regulation in Nepal,” International Planning Studies 6(1), 2001: 89-102.
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US Foreign Policy towards Canada and India; State Politics and Elections in India
B.A. (Allegheny College)
M.A., Ph.D. (Chicago)
The Construction of a Political Community: Identity and Integration in Goa (W.D.: SAGE, 1998)
"Changing Perceptions of India in the U.S. Congress," Asian Affairs, 28 (Spring 2001), pp. 37-60.
"Canada's Re-engagement with India," Asian Survey, 42 (Nov/Dec 2002), pp. 838-855.
The Role of Congress in U.S. Foreign Policy towards India
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Sufism
Bhakti
Islamic History, Philosophy and Literature
Shi’ism (Twelver and Ismaili)
Ph.D. (Harvard)
A.M. (Harvard)
M.A. (McGill)
B.A. (McGill)
The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A Search for Salvation, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Arabic translation of above: Sayf al-Din al-Qasir (trans.), Beirut: Saqi Books, forthcoming.
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“تمهيد ” in گنان شريف: مع ترجمه و الفاظ معانى , vol. 9, Zarina Kamaluddin and Kamaluddin Ali
Muhammad, Karachi: Z.A. Printer, 2006, 8-17.
“Symphony of Gnosis” in Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought, ed. Todd Lawson, London: I.B. Tauris, 2005: 503-521.
“Ahl al-Bayt” in Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., Lindsay Jones (ed.), New York: Macmillan, 2005, vol. 1, 198-199.
“The Days of Creation in the Thought of Nasir Khusraw,” Nasir Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Sarfaroz Niyozov and Ramazon Nazariev (eds.), Khujand, Tajikistan: Noshir Publications, 2004, 74-83.
Reprinted at: http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=106747.
“Qudratu’l-lah Shahab’s Ma-ji,” The Annual of Urdu Studies, volume 19 (2004): 406-415.
“The Eagle Returns: Evidence of Continued Ismaili Activity at Alamut and in the South Caspian Region following the Mongol Conquests,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 123:2 (April-June 2003): 81-100.
“Teflon Tents in the Desert: The Hajj Terminal as a neo-Vernacular Response to Architecture’s International Style,” Jusur: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 15 (1999): 1-13.
Sufism
Bhakti
Islamic History, Philosophy and Literature
Shi’ism (Twelver and Ismaili)
Ph.D., Vikram University, M.P., India (1990)
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Visiting Scholar, Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto
Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Johns Hopkins University (2006)
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Ph.D., SOAS, University of London (2009)
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., La Trobe University (2000)
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