Sumathi Ramaswamy
| Title: | Professor |
| Office Location: | 122 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | 684-5764 |
| Email Address: | sr76@duke.edu |
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Education
- PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1992
- MA University of Pennsylvania, 1986
- M.Phil Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1984
- MA Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1982
Research Interests
My current work is situated at the intersection of the new visual studies, history of cartography, and gender history. I have just completed a book which considers the visual entanglement of the map form of India with the anthropomorphic figure of Mother India, and explores the implications of this entanglement for gendered citizenship and belonging in colonial and post-colonial times. My work in popular visual history has also led me to co-establish Tasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture at http://www.tasveerghar.net/. I am also working on a book titled "Global Itineraries: The Indian Travels of a Worldly Object." In the near future, I hope to start a brand new project on philanthropy and higher education in modern India.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- DPDF Co-Director, Social Science Research Council, 2009
- Visiting Fellow, Center for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February, 2008
- Shivadasani Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Trinity term, 2008
- Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Fall 2007
- Senior Short-term Fellowship, The American Institute of Indian Studies, 2001-02
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2007-08; awarded in 2001
- Fredrick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2001-02
- HISTORY 378.01, RESRCH EMPR/COLONIAL ENCNTERS
- West Duke 204, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
Recent Publications
Books in Progress- S. Ramaswamy, The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India (Durham, Duke University Press, Spring, 2010). [abs]
- S. Ramaswamy ed., "Barefoot across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India" (Routledge India, August, 2010).
- S. Ramaswamy, "The Mahatma as Muse: An Image Essay on Gandhi in Popular Indian Visual Imagination" in Gayatri Sinha ed., Art and Visual Culture in India 1857-2007 (Marg Publications, 2009), 236-249.
- S. Ramaswamy, "Thinking Territory: Some Reflections" in Bed P. Giri and Prafulla Kar ed., Thinking Territory: Some Reflections (Pencraft International, 2008).
- S. Ramaswamy. "When a language becomes a mother/goddess: An image essay on Tamil." . April, 2008. [html]