Search Faculty by:

Faculty

Contact Info: Department of History Tufts University East Hall, room 03 Medford, MA 02155 617.627.3799 Email Prof. Manjapra Office Hours: Monday 1:30-3:00pm & Wed 3:30-5:00pm Download CV

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 Asia 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. As an intellectual historian, I trace the global itineraries of modernist thought and 'Anti-Westernism' in the colonial era, and this leads to the study of related topics, such as surveillance and counter-insurgency, diasporas and deterritoriality, and the effects of international politics on political and philosophical discourse.

I teach courses on South Asia and the World, Comparative Anti-colonialism, Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism, South Asian Intellectual History and Postcolonialism. I also teach Modern European Intellectual History, focusing on Continental thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

I am a co-organizer of the Transnational Studies Workshop at Tufts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in the study of global mobility and intersections.

Education

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

Fellowships

• Neubauer Faculty Fellow, Tufts University, 2009-2010
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, UCLA, 2007-2008
• Tata Study Grant, South Asia Institute, Harvard University, 2007
• Dissertation Finishing Fellowship, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2006-07
• Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2004-05
• DAAD Fellowship for Research in Germany, 2004-05

Projects

• Transnational Studies Working Group at Tufts
• "Mapping Postcolonial Thought in Bengal," Oral History Project, funded by the Berger Foundation

Affiliations

• Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts

Major Publications

• M.N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism, Routledge (forthcoming 2009)
• "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

Courses

• History 109.05: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism
• History 48: South Asia and the World
• History 001.25: Anticolonialism in Comparative Perspective
• History 68: Modern European Intellectual History