Ishan Ashutosh Assistant Professor, Department of Geography Indiana University Student Building 120, 701 E. Kirkwood Ave. (812)855-6303 Bloomington, IN 47405 [email protected] https://geography.indiana.edu/about/faculty/ashutosh-ishan.html EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D., Geography, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 2002 M.A. Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2001 B.A. History, cum laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY EMPLOYMENT Fall 2014-present Assistant Professor, Department of Geography; Core Faculty Member, Dhar India Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, Cultural Studies, Asian American Studies, Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies, Islamic Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University at Bloomington Fall 2012-2014 Lecturer, Politics and American Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK Fall 2010-2012 Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Research Activities PUBLICATIONS Published Peer Reviewed Articles Ashutosh, Ishan. 2019. “Postcolonial Geographies and Colonialism’s Mutations: the geo-graphing of South Asia in the mid-twentieth century,” Geography Compass. e12478 (12 pages) Ashutosh, Ishan. 2019. “The spaces of diaspora’s revitalization: Transregions, infrastructure and urbanism.” Progress in Human Geography, p.0309132519868765 (21 pages) April 7, 2020 1 Ashutosh, Ishan. 2019. “On the grounds of the global Indian: Tracing the disjunctive spaces between diaspora and the nation-state.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1), Pgs 41-58. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2018. “Mapping Race and Environment: geography’s entanglements with Aryanism.” Journal of Historical Geography 62 (October), Pgs. 15-23. Cook, Ian R. and Ashutosh, Ishan. 2017. “Television drama and the urban diegesis: portraying Albuquerque in Breaking Bad.” Urban Geography, 39(5), Pgs. 746-762. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2017. “America’s Battle over South Asia.” Tides Magazine. Available from: https://www.saada.org/tides/article/americas-battle-over-south-asia (6pages) Ashutosh, Ishan. 2017. “The Geography Area Studies Interface from the Second World War to the Cold War.” Geographical Review 107.4 (2017): 705-721. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2015. “Replacing the nation in the age of migration: negotiating South Asian identities in Toronto.” Fennia: International Journal of Geography 193(2): 212- 226. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2014. “From the Census to the City: Representing South Asians in Canada and Toronto. Diaspora 17(2): 130-148. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2013. “Immigrant Protests in Toronto: diaspora and Sri Lanka’s civil war.” Citizenship Studies 17(2): 197-210. Crane, Nicholas Jon and Ashutosh, Ishan. 2013. “A Movement Returning Home? Critical Geographies of Occupy Wall Street After the Evictions.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 13(3): 168-172. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2012. "South Asians in Toronto: geographies of transnationalism, diaspora, and the settling of differences in the city." South Asian Diaspora 4(1): pp. 95- 109. Ashutosh, Ishan and Alison Mountz. 2012. “The geopolitics of migrant mobility: tracing state relations through refugee claims and discourses.” Geopolitics 17: pp. 335-354. Ashutosh, Ishan and Alison Mountz. 2011. “Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration.” Citizenship Studies, Vol. 15, Nos. 6/7: pp. 21-38. Ashutosh, Ishan and Jamie L. Winders. 2009. “Teaching Orientalism in Introductory Human Geography.” The Professional Geographer. 61: 3, pp. 1-14. April 7, 2020 2 Ashutosh, Ishan. 2008. “Recreating the community: South Asian transnationalism in Chicago.” Urban Geography 29: 3, pp. 224-245. Edited Books in Progress Companion to Cultural Geography, co-edited with Jamie Winders, Wiley Blackwell (anticipated release 2021). Articles in Progress Ashutosh, Ishan. ‘Citizens or Diasporas in Motion: the status of the Nation-State, Origins, and Return in Migration Studies.’ Dialogue in Human Geography book forum, submitted June 2019. Book Chapters Ashutosh, Ishan. 2018. “When Ethnography Meets Space.” Handbook on the Geographies of Power, Mat Coleman and John Agnew, eds. Edward Elgar: Northampton. Encyclopedia Entries Ashutosh, Ishan. 2016. “Sovereignty.” In The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography, Douglas Richardson, ed. Book Reviews Ashutosh, Ishan. 2018. Mobility, ethnography and state power: Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles’ Refugees in Extended Exile. Book Review Forum, The AAG Review of Books (w. Mat Coleman). Ashutosh, Ishan. 2014. Home and Native Land: Unsettling multiculturalism in Canada. May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, and Sonali Thakkar, eds. Canadian Geography/Le Geographe canadien. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2013. Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America by Bakirathi Mani. International Migration Review 47(3): 779-80. Ashutosh, Ishan. 2011. Landscape, race and memory: material ecologies of citizenship by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (online): http://societyandspace.com/reviews/reviews-archive/tolia-kelly-landscape-race/ Ashutosh, Ishan. 2005. The World in a City, Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier, eds. Urban Geography. 26: 8, pp. 748-749. GRANTS 2016 Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Undergraduate Research Project ($1950) 2016 Asian American Studies Travel Grant ($800) April 7, 2020 3 2015 Antipode International Workshop Award ($12000) 2015 Dhar India Studies Conference Award, Indiana University ($5000) 2015 Office of Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University ($2000) 2015 New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities-New Currents Competition, Indiana University ($13269) 2015 Ostrom Grants Program, Indiana University ($3500) 2014 College of Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University ($9200) 2014-2015 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant in Aid ($4000) 2010-2014 Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Ohio State University 2009 Maxwell Dean’s Summer Research Award, Syracuse University ($1,650) 2008-2009 Maxwell Dean’s Dissertation Award/Fellowship, Syracuse University ($15,500) 2007-2008 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($11,255) 2006 Sopher Memorial Scholarship, Syracuse University ($2,500) 2006 Roscoe-Martin Fund for Research, Syracuse University ($1,500) 2004 Goekjian Scholar Summer Research Grant, Syracuse University ($2,200) INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS 2017. The Death of Diaspora and the Geographies of Revitalization. Department of Geography, Lexington, University of Kentucky. 2017. The State of Diaspora. Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. 2017. Diaspora’s Conceptual Disappearance: from Subversion to Assimilation. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada. 2017. Geography's Lost History in Colonial India: Environmental Determinism and Aryanism. Illinois State University, Normal, USA. April 7, 2020 4 2015. “The Global Indian and the Production of Distinctions in the Diaspora.” Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Ohio State University. 2013. “Tethering Diasporas: Nation-States and the Transnational Practices of the South Asian Diaspora.” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 2012. “Between Gods, Bombs, and Oil: The American Imagination of South Asia.” Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. 2011. “Multicultural Reflections, Transnational Refractions: ‘South Asian’ Identities in Toronto.” Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. REFEREED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS 2019. Between Tradition and Modernity: India’s Emergence in American Scholarship in the Interwar Period, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2019. Author meets critics: 'Citizens in motion: emigration, immigration and re-migration across China's borders' by Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Panelist. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2019. Race, territoriality, and xenophobia in an age of migration 'crises', Panelist. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2019. The Politics & Space Dialogue: Questioning Nationalism, Panelist. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2017. 2017. Lost Geographies: American constructions of South Asia during the World Wars. Indiana University-Ambedkar University Delhi Joint Symposium, New Delhi, India. 2017. South Asian Diasporas and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, USA. 2016. Mapping Race and Culture in Colonial India. Race, Place, and Capital Workshop, The Ohio State University. 2016. South Asian diasporic spaces in North America and Europe: towards a comparative approach. Workshop: Asian Diaspora Space in Europe at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Race. Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin. 2015. “Mapping Terra Incognita: British and American Colonialisms and the Native Informant.” Comparative Subalternities: Socio-Spatial Marginalization in the Global South. Indiana University, India Gateway Office, Gurgaon, Harayana. April 7, 2020 5 2015. “Managing and Contesting South Asian (Im-)Mobilities: State/Non- State Actors and Urban Networks.” International Conference of Critical Geography, Ramallah, Palestine. 2015. “Dividing