Sucheta Mazumdar
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 327 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 5490, 919 684 3014 |
| Email Address: | skmmaz@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of California, Los Angeles, 1984
- MA University of California, Los Angeles, 1977
- BA University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
Research Interests
Sucheta Mazumdar's primary areas of teaching are Chinese history and Asian American history. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and her area of specialization is southern China focusing on Guangdong and Taiwan in the late imperial period. Her publications include: Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market (Harvard University Press, 1998), now being translated into Chinese as Tang yu Zhongguo shehui: Nongmin, Jishu he Shijie Shichang, (forthcoming from Guangdong shehui kexueyuan and Daoxiang qubanshe in 2005). A socio-economic historian, she is particularly interested in the global movement of commodities and peoples and her work explores the connections between the global and the local through a study of the transformation of material culture. She is currently completing a monograph on Chinese American trading networks prior to the Opium War. Sucheta Mazumdar also has a very strong interest in Women's Studies and Comparative Asian history. She was one of the editors of Making Waves: An Anthology by and About Asian American Women (Beacon Press, 1989), which received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. Mazumdar has served as the associate director for the Institute for Research on Women at the State University of New York, Albany. She is working on a longer term project on the global history of women that is to be published by W.W Norton and Harper Collins. Mazumdar's strong interest in comparative Asian history led her to found in 1981 and co-edit until 2001, with Vasant Kaiwar, an interdisciplinary journal in the social sciences and humanities, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East [CSSAAME]published by Duke University Press. CSSAAME has consistently sought to go beyond the boundaries of area studies scholarship that has shaped the paradigms of knowledge production. Her most recent publication, with Vasant Kaiwar, includes Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation (Duke University Press, 2003).
Recent Publications
Books- Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar ed., Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orientalism and Nation (Duke University Press, 2003).
- "The Discovery of Crystallized Sugar." Reader on Traditional Chinese Culture (2004). A translation of the Tangshuang pu, a Twelfth Century Text by Wang Zhuo
- "Politics of Religion and National Origin: Rediscovering Hindu Indian Identity in the United States." Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orientalism, and Nation (2003): 223-260.
- with Vasant Kaiwar. "Race, Orient, Nation in the Time-Space of Modernity." Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orientalism and Nation (2003): 261-298.
- S. Mazumdar. ""What Happened to the Women" in Shirley Hune and Gail Nomura eds. Asian Pacific Islander Women A Historical Anthology." (2003).