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Department of History
Tufts University
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Kris Manjapra
Assistant Professor of History

Fields

Modern South Asia
Modern Germany

Specialties

Intellectual History, Transnational Studies, Urban History, Oral History, Digital Humanities Research

Biography

I joined Tufts History Department in 2008 after finishing my dissertation at Harvard, and completing a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA. My research is in South Asian and German history, and I am especially interested in transnational approaches. Currently, I am finishing a manuscript on the global networks of Indian anti-colonialism and entanglements with German philosophy, science and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My work brings to light a number of zones of intellectual and social interaction across the colonial divide, between German Orientalists and Indian scriptural scholars, between experimental and social scientists, and within Marxist and fascist circles.

I teach courses on South Asia in global context, modern South Asia, comparative anti-colonialism, modern European intellectual history, and modern Germany.

Publications

Books

  • M.N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (Delhi: Routledge 2010).
  • Co-edited with Sugata Bose, Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (Palgrave: London 2010).

Articles

  • "Stella Kramrisch and the Bauhaus in Calcutta", in: The Last Harvest: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore. Edited by R. Siva Kumar (Ahmedabad: Mapin, 2011), pp 34-40.
  • "From Imperial to International Horizons: A Hermeneutic Study of Bengali Modernism," in: Modern Intellectual History, vol. 8, no. 2, August 2011.
  • "Introduction" to Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas. Edited by Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra (London: Palgrave 2010).
  • "Communist Internationalism and Transcolonial Recognition" in Cosmopolitan Thought Zones, edited with Sugata Bose (London: Palgrave 2010).
  • "The illusions of encounter: Muslim 'minds' and Hindu revolutionaries in First World War Germany and after," in: Journal of Global History, vol. 1, no. 3, November 2006.

Reviews and other projects

  • "Introduction" to an editors' forum on " The Practices of Transnational Studies" in New Global Studies New Global Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, March 2010.
  • Contribution to Forum on "Asia, Germany, and the Transnational Turn". Edited by Bradley Naranch in German History, vol. 28, no. 4, December 2010.

Education

  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 2007
  • B.A. Harvard University, 2001

Fellowships

  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Free University, Berlin, 2010-2011
  • Neubauer Faculty Fellow, Tufts University, 2009-2010
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, UCLA, 2007-2009
  • Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2004-05
  • DAAD Fellowship for Research in Germany, 2004-05

Projects

Courses

  • South Asia and the World
  • South Asian Urban History: Calcutta and Dacca
  • Comparative Anti-Colonialism
  • Modern Germany: From Modernization to the Postmodern Condition
  • Modern European Intellectual History
  • German Imperialism