Mrinalini Sinha

Mrinalini Sinha (born February 27, 1960) is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor (by courtesy) in the Departments of English and Women's Studies of the University of Michigan. She writes on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism and on gender. She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014-15. She is the recipient of the 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has served, and continues to serve, on the editorial board of several academic journals, including the American Historical Review, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Gender and History, and Indian Economic and Social History Review, History of the Present .

Education

She got her Master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States.

Major publications

  • Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Gender and Nation, American Historical Association, 2006.
  • Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and The 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press, 1995.

Book Awards

  • Albion Book Prize, (2007) awarded annually by the North American Conference on British Studies
  • Joan Kelly Memorial Prize (2007) awarded annually by the American Historical Association

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  • Curriculum vitae Mrinalini Sinha, 2015 
Jyotsna Uppal, "Teaching Across Borders," Radical History Review (1 January 2005) 2005 (91): 165–169.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-91-165



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