Ananya Dasgupta
ANANYA DASGUPTA
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Case Western Reserve University
Mather House 207
10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7107
Academic Employment
Case Western Reserve University, Assistant Professor of History – Fall 2013 to present.
Teaching and Research Interests
Modern South Asia; Islam in South Asia; Nationalism; Colonialism; Capitalism; Women’s Histories in South Asia
Education
Ph.D - University of Pennsylvania in 2013.
M.Phil - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2004.
M.A - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2001.
Awards and fellowships
1.2004 - Fellowship from the Institute of Women’s Studies, Lahore, Pakistan.
2.2004 - Award of Excellence from the Institute of Women’s Studies, Lahore, Pakistan.
3. 2006 - 2011 - Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.
4. 2008- Dean’s Summer Fellowship from the Schools of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania for pre-dissertation research conducted in Bangladesh in the summer of 2008 (June – August, 2008).
5. 2011 - 2012 - Vishwabharati Fellowship from the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
6. 2012 - 2013- School of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.
7. 2012 - 2013 – Dean’s Scholar, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.
8. 2016 – Faculty Travel Grant, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University.
Publications
__ “Debt and Muslim Self-making in Late Colonial Bengal” in South Asian History and Culture ( Vol 7, Issue 2, 2016). (peer-reviewed).
__ Introduction titled “ Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia” guest-edited with James Caron for South Asian History and Culture (Vol 7, Issue. 2, 2016)
Articles and Book manuscripts in preparation
__ “From Respect to Redistribution: The Hegemony of Praja Identity in Bengali Muslim Politics.”
__ Labor and Islam: Cultivating Land, Self, and Community in Colonial Bengal (Book manuscript).
__ “Voting in the Anjumans: Practicing Democracy in Eastern Bengal, 1910 - 1925.”
Papers presented
__ “ Practicing Democracy: Muslim Voluntary Associations in Colonial Bengal,” AAS-in-Asia 2016, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2016.
__ “Islam, Interest, and Labor in Colonial Bengal,” presented at the 130th Annual meeting of the American Historical Association Conference, 2016.
__ “Anjumans and the practice of democracy in colonial Bengal,” presented at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia, Wisconsin-Madison, 2015.
__ “Debt and the Moral Economy of Muslim Politics in Late Colonial Bengal” presented at the Asian Studies Colloquium, University of Buffalo, 2014.
__ “Bengali Muslim Literary Praxis and the Pakistan Movement” presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, Wisconsin-Madison, 2014.
__“The status of the Riba prohibition and Muslim self-making in Late Colonial Bengal” presented at the South Asia Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.
__ “Devotion and Muslim Identity in Twentieth Century Bengal” presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.
__ Roundtable on ‘Teaching South Asia in the U.S,” Ohio Academy of History Conference, 2016.
Teaching Courses
Introduction to Modern South Asia
Muslims in South Asia
Women’s Histories in South Asia
History from Below
Introduction to Modern World History (co-taught)
Comparative Graduate History Seminar: Capitalism
Partition in South Asia
Public History and Community Engagement
Presentation -“Mahatma vs. Gandhi: Myth-making, History, and Indian Nationalism” at Montessori High School, University Circle, Cleveland, 2016.
Member of expert panel for “The 8th History Symposium” at Montessori High, University Circle, Cleveland, 2016.
Gallery Talk - “The Yogis: Magicians, Mercenaries, Spies, and Sages from Indian History” at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
Presentation - “Historicizing the Veil” at the Summer Teachers’ Institute: Integrating Gender in a Global Curriculum (for high school teachers in Philadelphia), University of Pennsylvania, 2013.
Presentation for high school students of Philadelphia’s public schools - “Youth Activism in South Asia” at the Penn Museum, 2011.
Presentation for Asia Day, “Indian Cinema and Society: A Historical Perspective,” Penn Museum, 2009.
Service
Ad Hoc Committee for Undergraduate Curriculum
Speakers Committee
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Department Library Liaison
Academic Advisor for first-year students
Professional Membership
American Historical Association
Association of Asian Studies
Other Experience
Coordinator of the weekly South Asia Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2012.
Co-organizer of the conference titled “Histories of Objects and Bodies in South Asia” at the University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2012.
Languages
Bengali; Hindi; Urdu
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