RADHA KUMAR Department of History, Syracuse University 145, Eggers Hall, 401 S Salina Street, #513 Syracuse, NY 13244 Syracuse, NY 13202
[email protected] 609-613-6572 Employment 2014-present Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University. Education 2008-2014 Ph.D., History (Jan. 2015), Princeton University. Dissertation: “Police Matters: Law and Everyday Life in Rural Madras, c.1900-1960.” Committee Members: Profs. Gyan Prakash (Advisor), Bhavani Raman, Anson Rabinbach, Sumathi Ramaswamy. M.A., History (2010), Princeton University. Fields: Modern South Asia, Urban History, Caste in India. 2003-2005 Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. 2001-2003 M.A., History (specialization in Modern India), Hindu College, Delhi University, India. 1998-2001 B.A., History, Stella Maris College, Madras University, India. Publications 2017 (forthcoming) “Seeing Like a Policeman: Everyday Violence in British India, c. 1900- 1950,” in Dwyer, Nettelbeck and Ryan eds Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World, Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial Studies, Palgrave Macmillan. 2017 “Policing Everyday Life: The FIR in the Tamil Countryside, c. 1900-1950,” Indian Economic and Social History Review, 54, 3, pp. 1-27. 2015 Review of Power, Perversion and Panic: Eunuchs, Colonialism and Modernity in North India by Jessica Hinchy in Dissertation Reviews, Nov. 2, 2015. http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/12673 2011 “India’s Spectacular Criminals,” Awaaz: the voice of South Asia, Spring 2011, vol. 3, pp. 17-21. 2007 “Conditions in which Microfinance has emerged in certain Regions.” Co-authored with M.S. Sriram, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No.