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.