Nita Kumar, Ph.D.
Department
Areas of Expertise
Teaching Interests
Modernity, urbanism, everyday life, historiography, caste, class, community, gender, women, children, education, literature and art.
Research Interests
Artisans, work and leisure; women & gender; methodology of History and Anthropology; activism and management; education, families, communities' the intellectual history of India; contemporary education in India.
Education
B.A., University of Lucknow, India; M.A., University of Bridgeport; M.Phil., Jawaharial Nehru University, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago; Lecturer, University of Chicago; Mellon Fellow and Assistant Professor, Brown University; Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India; Fulbright Fellow, Yale University; Professor, Brandeis University; Reed College; University of Michigan. (On leave, second semester.)
Awards and Affiliations
2007, India Foundation for the Arts
2003-2006, Research grant from IDPAD (Indo-Dutch Programme in Alternative Development)
2001, American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship
1999-2000, Spencer Foundation Short-term Research Grant
1998-99, Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship
Research and Publications
The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education. Oxford, Delhi, 2007
Lessons from Schools: A History of Education in Banaras. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2000
Mai: a novel by Geetanjali Shree. Translated with an afterword. Delhi: Kali for Women, 2000
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Edited. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994
Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.