Curriculum Vitae 

Sudipta Sen
Department of History
Syracuse University
531 Eggers Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1090
Status: Indian Citizen, U. S. Permanent Resident
Tel (315) 443 3713 • ssen@maxwell.syr.edu

 Current Position 

Associate Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University                       

Experience 

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University, 1997-2000

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Historical Sociology, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997-present

Assistant Professor, Department of History & Program in Asian Studies, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, 1994-1997.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1997.

Associate, Committee of Southern Asian Studies, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1994-1997           

Publications

 A Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British-India, London: Routledge, 2001.     
 Forthcoming.

 Domestic Desires: Sex, Race and the Sanguinary Divide in Early English-India," Special Issue, South Asia    
 (University of Western Australia Press for the South Asian Studies Association). Forthcoming.

"Uncertain Dominance: The Colonial State and its Contradictions in British-India”, Special Issue: ‘Intersecciones de las Historias, Otras Modernidades y la Alteridad del Conocimiento’, Nepantla (Duke University Press), 2001. Forthcoming.

"Imperial Orders of the Past: Semantics of History and Time in the Medieval Indo-Persianate Culture of North India" in Daud Ali edited, The Place of the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia, Delhi, Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. 

Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.  

"Passages of Authority: Rulers, Traders and Marketplaces in Eighteenth Century North India," Calcutta History Journal (Calcutta University), January-June 1995. 

"Colonial Frontiers of the Georgian State: East India Company's Rule in India," Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1994.           

"The Decline of Terra-cotta Art and Artisans in Bengal," in Itihas Anusandhan (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the West Bengal History Congress) ed. G. Chattopadhyay, Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi, 1987. 

            Book Reviews 

Review of Dharma Kumar, Colonialism, Property and the State, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Journal of Asian Studies  

Review of D. A. Low, Britain and Indian Nationalism: The Imprint of Ambiguity 1929-1942. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Journal of Modern History  

Review of Lahore: Illustrated Views of the 19th Century, by F. S. Aijazuddin. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1991, in Chicago South Asia Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 1, January 1994.  

Review of Arrested Development in India: The Historical Dimension, ed. Clive Dewey,  Riverdale  MD: The Riverdale Co., 1988. in Chicago South Asia Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1989.  

Education  

University of Chicago:  

Ph.D. (Distinction), Department of History, June 1994

            M.A. Department of History, December 1988

  University of Calcutta:

M.A., April 1988, Post-graduate Department of History, Calcutta University, Calcutta  

B.A. (Honors), June 1985, Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta  

Fellowships and Honors

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2000

Appleby-Mosher Research Grant, Syracuse University, 1998  

Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, Summer, 1997    

Keefer Junior Faculty Development Grant, Beloit College, 1996-97   

           Research Fellowship, Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem MA, July 1994

Visiting Scholar in History, Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-94  

Advanced Residence Fellowship, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1993-94

Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1992-93

Honorary Visiting Scholar, 1990-92, Center for Studies in the Social Sciences, Calcutta  

Junior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1990-92

MacArthur Scholar, Council for Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation, University of Chicago, 1990-91  

Teaching Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Program For the Study of Europe, Department of History, University of Chicago, Winter Quarter 1989-90

Recent Conferences and Papers            

“Hiding Behind Dates: Imperialism & the Art of Historical Memory in British-India”, Invited Session: Institutional Histories, Colonial Knowledges, The Scholarly Vision of Bernard S. Cohn, American Anthropology Association , 99th Annual Meeting, November 15-19, 2000, San Francisco, California.

Presidental Panel, Midwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies: "A Roundtable Discussion on the Role of Asia in World Trade between 1600 and 1900", October 7, 2000. Unversity of Indiana, Bloomington. Invited Speaker.

"Uncertain Dominance: The Colonial State and its Contradictions" Intersecciones de las Historias, Modernindades Otras y la Alteridad del Concimiento, 26-27 June, 2000, Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa, El Colegio de Mexico. Invited 
Speaker.  

"Colonial Aversions and Domestic Desires: Blood, Race, Sex and the Decline of Intimacy in British-India". Empire, Culture, and Globalization: a conference organized by the International Studies Seminar, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 28-30^th April, 2000. Invited speaker.  

"The Long and Short of the Eighteenth-Century in English India", Conference: Annual Discussion Group on the Formation of the English State (Theme: "Periodization and the History of the English State"),  St. Peter's College, Oxford University, 14-15 April, 2000. Invited speaker.  

"Domesticity and Disorder: the Secret Life of Englishmen in Early Colonial India". Faculty Seminar, Department of History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, July 9, 1999. Invited Speaker.  

"Domestic Desires: Sex, Race and the Sanguinary Divide in Early English-India" Conference: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia: Knowledges, Practices, Popular Culture, and the State at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, The South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASA) and the School of Literary and Communication Studies, Deakin University, 6th-8th July 1999. Invited speaker.

"Beyond Conquest and Conciliation: Rethinking the Making of British-India." Cornell South Asia Program, Cornell University, 23 February 1998. Invited Speaker.  

Manuscript Reviewing 

  Journal of Historical Sociology, Oxford: Basil Blackwell; University of California Press, Berkeley,  
  California; Association for Asian Studies, Occasional Papers and Monographs Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan  

Languages  

            Fluent in Bengali, Hindi and Urdu.

            Reading and writing knowledge of Persian and Sanskrit.

            Reading knowledge of French.

Courses Taught

  Syracuse University, Department of History:

Global Communities, Making of Modern India, History of South Asia; Pre-modern India; British Empire; Europe &the East: Race in History; Empire & Imperialism

  University of California, Berkeley, Department of History:

Modern South Asia; Britain's Asian Empire

Beloit College, History & Asian Studies:

Ancient & Medieval India; Pre-modern Asia: India, China & Japan; Modern Asia: India, China & Japan in the Age of the Nation-State; Race in History; Africa and Asia in the Age of European Expansion; Europe & the East: Asian Identities in Historical Perspective; Comparative Asian Civilizations and Cultures; The Making of Modern Africa