Degrees:

• Ph.D. 1990, University of Virginia [Dissertation:  “Being Vaishnava, Becoming Kshatriya:  Culture, Belief, and Identity in Northern India, 1800-1950”]
• M.A. 1986 and B.A. 1982, University of Virginia

• 1998-          Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University
• 1991-1998  Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University
• 1990-1991  Assistant Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
• Spring 1990 Adjunct Lecturer, History, College of William and Mary

• Killing Ascetics in Indian History, 1500 - 2000

• "Same Difference in India and Europe."  A review of Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Princeton, 1996) and Christopher A. Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge, UK, 1996)," History and Theory (1999)
• "History, Devotion, and The Search for Nabhadas of Galta," in Daud Ali and Avril Powell (ed.), Invoking the Past: The Uses of History in South Asia (forthcoming, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999), 328-360.
• "Who was Himmat Bahadur Anupgiri Gosain?  Ascetics, Rajputs, and the British in Bundelkhand, ca. 1800," Indian Economic and Social History Review, 35, 3 (November 1998): 293-335.
• “Historicity, Hagiography, and Hierarchy in Gangetic India, 1918-1936,” in William Radice (ed.), Swami Vivekananda and the Modernisation of Hinduism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), 244-263
• Peasants and Monks in British India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996)
• “Reinventing Ramanand:  Caste and History in Gangetic India,” Modern Asian Studies 30, 3 (1996): 549-572
• “Soldier Monks and Militant Sadhus,” in David Ludden (ed.), Contesting the Nation:  Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1996), 140-162; also published by Oxford University Press, Delhi, as Making India Hindu: Community, Conflict, and the Politics of Democracy
• “Poppy and the Peasant:  A Look at the Structure of Agrarian Society in Nineteenth-Century Bihar,” Explorations [India] 1, 2 (July 1987): 25-35
• “Opium and the Peasant in North India,” Essays in History 30 (1987): 37-59

• "Killing Ascetics:  Godmen and Violence in Indian History," Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, 12 April 1999.
• “Subaltern Sadhus?  Political Ascetics in Indian Myth, Memory, and History,"Walter Hauser Festschrift, University of Virginia, 24-25 May 1997; presented as “Subaltern Sadhus?  Towards a Military Genealogy of North Indian Asceticism” at Tufts University (Rethinking South Asian History conference), 9-10 May 1997; and as “Powerful Ascetics:  Devotion, Discipline, and Armed Sadhus” at Cambridge University (The New Military History of South Asia conference), 15-17 July 1997
• "Nabhadas and the Bhaktamala:  Monasticism, Devotion, and Historical Consciousness, ca. 1600-1910,” The Place of the Past: Uses of History in South Asia Workshop, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 16-18 April 1997
• “Peasants, Monks, and Indian History,” Cornell University South Asia Lecture, 31 March 1997
• "Who Was Himmat Bahadur?  Mercenaries and Sadhus in Bundelkhand, ca. 1800,” Association for Asian Studies national meeting, 12 April 1996, Honolulu
• “Soldier Ascetics in Northern India,” Center for South Asian Studies Seminar, Edinburgh University, 9 May 1995
• “Soldier Monks and Militant Sadhus,” South Asia Lecture, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2 March 1994
• “Hagiography and Historicity in North India,” Modernisation of Hinduism Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 26-27 November 1993
• “Subaltern Sadhus? (reflections on gosains, bairagis, and shudras),” Work in Progress Seminar, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 31 March 1993
• “Swami Dharnidharacharya and Kshatriya Political Identity in Gangetic India, 1891-1930,” Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., 5 April 1992
• “Partisan Pasts in Ayodhya, 1918-1921:  Remembering Ramananda and Ramanuja,” Myth, Memory, and History Symposium, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, 7 March 1992
• “Ramanandis, Vaishnava Ideas, and Caste Identity Movements in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Gangetic North India,” Center for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 10 February 1990; and South Asia Colloquium, North Carolina State University, 2 March 1990
• “Sadhus and Social Change:  Ascetic Settlement Patterns and Agrarian Caste Power in Gangetic South Bihar, 1909-1916,” Mid-Atlantic States Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., 22 October 1989.

• C. A. Bayly, Empire and Information:  Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Journal of Asian and African Studies (forthcoming)
• Dane Kennedy, The Magic Mountains:  Hill Stations and the British Raj (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), Journal of Asian History (forthcoming)
• "The Bandit Queen" (directed by Shekhar Kapur, 1994), American Historical Review 101, 4 (October 1996): 1149-1150
• Carl W. Ernst, Eternal Garden:  Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), International Journal of Middle East Studies (May 1994): 350-352
• With Manu Goswami, review of a conference on “Public Policy and Social Change in Contemporary India,” University of Virginia Center for South Asian Studies Newsletter 4, 2 (Spring 1991): 1-2,10

• 1996-97 American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Advanced Area Research Award (two summers research in London)
• 1994-95 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Training Grant, U.S. Department of Education
• 1994-95 American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship (declined)
• 1986-87 Social Science Research Council, International Doctoral Dissertation Research and Write-up Award
• 1986-87 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, U.S. Department of Education
• 1986-87 American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Research Fellowship (declined)
• 1985 South Asia Regional Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Urdu Language fellowship (summer)
• 1983-89 U.S. Department of Education, National Resource Fellowship (Title VI/FLAS): Hindi (1983-85, 1988-89) and Persian (1985-86)
• 1982-83 American Institute of Indian Studies, Hindi Language fellowship, New Delhi

    History Deparment:

• Religion and History Concentration Group, 1997-98
• Field Advisor, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; and European Imperialism and the Third World, 1997-98
• Honors Thesis Prize Adjudication Committee, 1995-96
• Field Advisor, European Imperialism and the Third World, 1993-94
• Honors Committee, 1992-93, 1993-94

• Social Science Commputing Committee (formerly Data Lab Committee), 1997-
• Davenport Grants Committee, 1992
• Hewlett Grant sponsor for Professor Romila Thapar, October 1992

• Educational Policy Committee, 1997- (chair, fall 1998)
• Curricular Renewal Implementation Committee, 1998-
• Humanities/SocialScience/Library Facility Planning Committee, 1997-98
• Davenport Building Subcommittee, 1997-98
• Fulbright Fellowship Committee, 1997
• Navaratri Lecture-Symposium co-organizer (with Philip Wagoner), 1997
• Less Commonly Taught Languages Faculty Task Force, 1997
• Frosh Advising, 1992-94, 1995-96
• Ethnomusicology Ph.D. Committee, for Zoe Sherinian, 1994-1998
• Advisory Committee, 1993-94
• South and Southeast Asia Faculty Circle, 1993-present

• South Asia Book Review Editor (with Indira Peterson at Mt. Holyoke), Journal of Asian Studies, 1998-
• New England Association for Asian Studies, Fall 1997 meeting, program committee
• U. S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Awards evaluation panel
• National Endowment for the Humanities, College and University Research Awards evaluation panel
• Manuscript Review for Westview Press

• Timothy Whyte, "Slavery in the Himalayas," Department of History, 1997-1998.  Received High Honors, Dutcher Prize, and nominated for University Honors.
• Duncan Goldberg, “Irregular Genesis:  A Selective Study of Founders and Formations of Irregular Soldiery in the British Empire,” Department of History, 1995-96.  Received Honors.
• James Leiken, “The Fury of Bengal:  A Psychobiographical Portrait of Subhas Chandra Bose,” Department of History, 1995-96.  Received Honors.
• Prasanna Rasiah, “Tamil Cultural Scholarship in Sri Lanka,” Department of History, 1993-94.  Received Honors.
• Amit Nigam, “Participatory Development: India’s ‘Operation Flood’ Program,” College of Social Studies, 1993-94.  Recipient of Davenport Grant for research in India, summer 1993.  Received High Honors.
• Geetanjali Chander, “Leprosy in India,” Department of History, 1992-93. Recipient of Davenport Grant for research in India and London, summer 1992.  Received High Honors, Butler Prize, and nominated for University Honors.

     Frosh seminars:

• HIST 105 Slaves, Souls, and Spices
• HIST 109 Colonial India in Fiction and Film

• HIST 257 India and Indology
• HIST 258 Imperial India
• HIST 259 The Indian Nation

• HIST 323 Religion and History
• HIST 324 Social Change in India
• HIST 327 War and Society in India
• HIST 329 The Indo-Muslim World