Sucheta Mazumdar
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 327 Carr Building |
| 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
Two broad questions frame my research agenda: the radical transformation of circuits of consumption and commodity production underlying capitalist development, and the politics of this globalization as evidenced in the transnational circulations of ideas about race, ethnicity and gender. Grounded in Chinese history, and secondarily in Indian history, I am excited by the intellectual challenges of writing and teaching comparative global history. Methodologically, I work at the intersections of socioeconomic history (histoire totale) and comparative-connective history (histoire croisée). My monograph, "Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market" (Harvard, 1998, Chinese translation, 2009) explores in the longue durée the limits to economic breakthrough to capitalist production in the Qing era. In three edited volumes, "From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia-Europe and the Lineages of Difference" (Routledge, 2009); "Antinomies of Modernity, Essays on Race, Orientalism and Nation" (Duke University Press, 2003, Tulika Press Indian edition, 2003) and Making Waves Writings By and About Asian American Women (Beacon Press, 1989, I focus on the identity politics of race and gender in the Chinese and Indian diaspora, and the central framing of Asia-Europe in the cultural-intellectual imaginary of the civilizational model of world history. Currently, I am working on completing two monographs: "China and New Global History" and "From the Slave Trade to the Opium Rush: China-America Trade in the Making of the Modern World." My strong interest in comparative Asian history led me to start with Vasant Kaiwar, two international interdisciplinary journals in the social sciences and humanities, "South Asia Bulletin" (1981-1991) and "Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East" [CSSAAME], 1992-2001.
Awards/Recognitions
Duke Today
http://news.duke.edu/2009/10/sucheta.html
- ICS 140S.04, SELECTED TOPICS
- Carr 229, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- WOMENST 150S.04, SELECTED TOPICS
Synopsis
- Carr 229, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- HISTORY 172B.01, CHINA AND THE WEST
Synopsis
- Carr 240, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- HISTORY 195S.04, JUNIOR-SENIOR SEM SP TOP
Synopsis
- Carr 229, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- AMES 195S.07, SPECIAL TOPICS
- Carr 229, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- AAAS 199S.05, SPECIAL TOPICS
- Carr 229, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- HISTORY 105S.02, ASIAN AMER./CIVIL RIGHTS
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 118, Th 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- HISTORY 172C.01, CHINA ANTIQUITY TO 1400
Synopsis
- Social Sciences 124, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
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).