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University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site Title Prof. First Name Seema Last Name Alavi Photograph Designation Professor Department History Address (Campus) Dept. of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 (Residence) 16-B, Pktt.-A, Sukhdev Vihar, New Delhi-110025 Phone No (Campus) (Residence)optional 26932185 Mobile nil Fax nil Email [email protected] Web-Page Education Subject Institution Year Details PhD Cambridge University, England, UK 1991 Military cultures in transition -18th century MPhil Jawaharlal Nehru University, JNU, New Delhi 1986 18th century social history MA JNU, New Delhi 1984 Medieval History BA Lucknow University, Lucknow 1982 History Career Profile Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role JNU, New Delhi Asstt. Prof. 1991-1998 Teaching Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Reader 1998-2006 Teaching Jamia Millia Islamia Professor 2007-2010 Teaching University of Delhi, Delhi Professor 2010-continuing Teaching Research Interests / Specialization Medieval and early modern South Asian history. With special interest in the transition of Mughal political culture to early colonial political culture in the 18th –early 19th centuries. Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught) Undergraduate and graduate teaching at JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia and Delhi University for the last 19 years. Taught courses on Mughal social history, 18th century transition studies, and military and medical cultures in the period of transition to British rule. Honors & Awards Fulbright Fellowship, 2000, (University of Texas, USA); Fulbright Fellowship, 2004 (USA); Smuts Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies, 2002 (Cambridge Univ., UK); Harvard Yenching Fellowship, Harvard, 2005 (Harvard, USA); Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard 2009-2010 (Harvard, USA); Singhavi Fellowship, 2009 ( Cambridge, UK). Publications: Books (LAST FIVE YEARS) Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the age of Empire, Harvard University Press, 2015; Islam & Healing. Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim healing tradition 1600-1900, Palgrave Macmillan , UK& Permanent Black, Delhi, 2008 Publications In Peer Reviewed Journals (LAST FIVE YEARS) www.du.ac.in Page 1 Year of Publication Title Journal Co-Author 2007 Medical culture in transition Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge 2011 Fugitive mullahs and runaway fanatics Modern Asian Studies, Camb. 2011 Siddik Hasan Khan and Muslim cosmopolitanism Journal of the Eco. & Soc. History of the Orient (JESHO), Leiden. 2014 Mughal Crisis and the forging of global connections, in Publications: Others (LAST FIVE YEARS) Year of Publication Title Journal Co-Author 2016 Haji Imdadulaah Makki in Mecca in Kingshuk Chatterji Ed, Global History Conference/Seminar Presentations Presented papers at: Harvard University, USA; Tufts Univ., USA; Cambridge University, UK; Honsie Unive., Korea; Witts Univ., Johannesburg, South Africa; Michigan Univ. , Ann Arbor, USA; Queens University, Belfast, Ireland, UK; Royal Holloway College, London, UK; Sehr Univ., Istanbul. Etc.Delhi University, Delhi; NYU, Abu Dhabi; Singapore University, Singapore; Max Planck Center, Berlin, Germany; Yale University, USA; Yale sponsored conference at Hanoi, Vietnam; World Cosmopolitanism Conference, Hannover, Germnay. Total Publication Profile optional Books 1. Sepoys & the Company. Tradition and transition in North India: 1770-1830, OUP, 1995; 2. Co-authored with Muzaffar Alam, A European View of the Mughal Orient, OUP, 2000; 3. Oxford Debates series edited, 18th century in Indian History, OUP, 2001; 4. Islam & Healing. Loss and recovery of an Indo-Muslim medical tradition, Palgrave, Macmillan, London, 2008. 5. Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the age of Empire, Harvard University Press, 2015 In Peer Reviewed J Article Conference/Seminar Presentations See above Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity Professional Societies Memberships www.du.ac.in Page 2 1. Editorial Board: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, UK 2. Editiorial Board: Modern Asian Studies, UK 3. Editorial Board: Biblio, Delhi Other Details (Signature of Faculty Member) (Signature & Stamp of HOD) www.du.ac.in Page 3 .