Kris K. Manjapra
2654 Harvard Yard Mail Center · Cambridge, MA 02138 · (617) 493-3966
Education
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA
M.A. History
Ph.D. Candidate with advisors: David Blackbourn and Sugata Bose.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA
A.B. History. Magna cum Laude with Highest Honors.
Thesis: “Schopenhauer, Schopenhauerians, and the German Appropriation of Indian
Thought” (2001).
WESTERN CANADA HIGH SCHOOL Calgary, Alberta
Bilingual (French) Full International Baccalaureate Diploma. Outstanding Student Award 1995; Outstanding Student of the Humanities Award 1996. Certificate of Distinction in the Canadian Mathematics Association Competition 1995.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR INDIAN STUDIES Calcutta, India
Bengali language course. Summer 2002.
GEOTHE INSTITUT DIPLOMA Munich, Germany
Advanced German language study. Recipient of Zentral Mittelstuffe Prufung certificate. Summer 1999.
Graduate research to date
Seminar paper for David Blackbourn:
“Catholic Modernism in Germany at the Turn of the Century” (2002)
Seminar paper for James Kloppenberg:
“Lionel Trilling, Theodor Adorno, and the Problem of Authenticity among New York
Intellectuals after the Fall of the Genteel Tradition” (2002)
Paper for Sugata Bose:
“Indian Modernists and Internationalism” (2002)
Paper for Sugata Bose:
“Indian Marxism and the use of Europe against Europe” (in progress)
Paper for Peter Gordon:
“The Problem and Promise of Language after the Second World War: Gadamer, Habermas and
Sprachlichkeit” (2003)
Proposed Dissertation Topic:
“A Space of Encounter: Indian Revolutionaries in Germany, 1914-1933"
Academic projects and activities
Colloquium Presentation on “M.N. Roy and the World of Berlin” given at Humboldt University, Abteilung Südasiatische Geschichte (November 2004)
Affiliate, Abteilung Geschichte, Südasien Institut, Heidelberg University (2004-05)
Teaching Fellowships 2003-04, History 1470b: “European Intellectual History, Part II” offered by Peter Gordon. History 10b: “Western Societies, Politics and Culture: From 1650 to the Present” offered by Peter Gordon. Historical Studies A-16: “The Making of Modern South Asia” offered by Sugata Bose.
Indexer, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judiasm and German Philosophy (2003)
Research Assistant, Professor Robert Travers (Spring, 2003)
Research Assistant, Professor Sugata Bose (2003-Ongoing)
Conference Organizer, RETHINKING SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY (2002)
Coordinated the 2002 Conference hosted by Professor Sugata Bose at Harvard University.
Seminar Series Organizer, SOUTH ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS at the Asia Center (2002-Ongoing
Seminar Series Organizer, CONTEMPORARY ASIA SERIES at the Asia Center (2003-Ongoing)
Service projects
Harvard University Proctor and Academic Advisor to Freshmen (2003-Ongoing)
Co-Director, In Common Graduate Student Peer Counseling Hotline (2003-Ongoing)
History Department Big Sibling (2002-03, 2003-04)
Awards received
DAAD Year Long Research Fellowship 2004-2005
Visiting Scholar appointment to Heidelberg University
Graduate School of Arts and Science Research Grant 2003
Center for European Studies Summer Dissertation Research Grant 2003
Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis of 2001
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