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CURRICULUMVITAE
PROJITBIHARIMUKHARJI
DepartmentofHistoryandSociologyofScience•UniversityofPennsylvania
326ClaudiaCohenHall•Philadelphia,PA19104-6304
(215)898-8697•mukharji@sas.upenn.edu
ACADEMICAPPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, Department of History & Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,USA,2017—present.Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, University ofPennsylvania,USA,2013—2017.Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Department of History & Sociology of Science,UniversityofPennsylvania,USA,2011—2017.AssistantProfessor(Tenure-Track),DepartmentofHistory,McMasterUniversity,Canada,2009—2011.Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University,UK,2008-2009.LecturerinModernHistory,DepartmentofHistory,NewcastleUniversity,UK,2007-2008.WellcomeTrust Postdoctoral Fellow,Department ofHistory, University of Southampton,UK,2006-2007.MPhil Tutor, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University ofLondon,UK,2006.Undergraduate Tutor, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies,UniversityofLondon,UK,2005-2006.
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Research Assistant to Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi,India,2003.
EDUCATION
PhD,SchoolofOriental&AfricanStudies(SOAS),UniversityofLondon,UK–2006.
MPhil,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,India–2003.
MA,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,India–2001.
BA(Hons.),PresidencyCollege,UniversityofCalcutta,Calcutta,India-1999.
AWARDSANDFELLOWSHIPS
! Research Fellowship, Visiting Scholar, Department II,Max Planck Institute for theHistoryofScience,Berlin,January–April2018.
! Penn Faculty Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania,September2017–May2018.
! Affiliated Scholarship, Herman D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies,UniversityofPennsylvania,September2017–May2018.
! TheAndrewW.MellonFoundation: JohnE. Sawyer Seminars on theComparativeStudy of Cultures, “Religion and Medicine in the Global South”, PrincipalInvestigator.[RecommendedbytheUniversitytoTheMellonFoundation,ultimatelyunsuccessful]
! University Research Foundation Conference Support Grant, “Para-Historicities:Parallel Pathways in Historical Knowledge Production, South Asia, 1800-200”,UniversityofPennsylvania,February2014.
! Penn Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI),“Casting Genomics: Race, Caste and the history of Pharmacogenomics in India”,UniversityofPennsylvania,April2013.
! StandardResearchGrant,SSHRC,McMasterUniversity,April,2010.
! AidtoResearchWorkshops&ConferencesinCanada,SSHRC,April,2010.
! StandardResearchGrant,ArtsResearchBoard,McMasterUniversity,January2009.
! WellcomePostdoctoralResearchFellowship,2006-2010.
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! FelixFellowshipforDoctoralDissertation,2003-2006.
! CentralResearchFund,UniversityofLondon,2005.
! SOASFieldworkGrant,2004.
! QualifiedUGCNET(NationalEligibilityTestforLectureship,India),2001.
! JuniorResearchFellowship,IndianCouncilofHistoricalResearchforMPhilProject,
2001.
! ResearchFellow,CentrefortheStudyofDevelopingSocieties(CSDS),Delhi,2001.
ACADEMICAFFILIATIONS
Department of South Asia Studies Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2011—present.Department of Religious Studies Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2011—present.DepartmentofHistoryGraduateGroup,UniversityofPennsylvania,2013—present.PUBLICATIONS
-Monograph:Refereed-2016
! Doctoring Tradition: Ayurveda, Small Technologies and Braided Sciences, Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress.September23,2016.
2009
! Nationalizing theBody: TheMarket, Print andDaktariMedicine in ColonialBengal,1860-1930,London:AnthemPress,368pp.[Paperback2011;Indianedn.2012]
-Monograph:InProgress-
! Locatingthe‘Human’:BetwixtGenesandSoulsinTwentieth-CenturyIndia.
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-EditedBooks:Refereed-2012
! Co-editor [with David Hardiman],MedicalMarginality in South Asia: SituatingSubalternTherapeutics, Intersections:ColonialandPostcolonialHistoriesSeries,London,NewYork:Routledge.
2010
! Co-editor [with Waltraud Ernst and Anne Digby], Crossing ColonialHistoriographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines inTransnationalPerspective,Newcastle-upon-Tyne:CambridgeScholarsPublishing,280pp.
2008
! Co-editor[withDoloresMartinez],Football:FromEnglandtotheWorld,London,NewYork:Routledge,156pp.
-JournalArticles:Refereed-2017
! “CatandMouse:AnimalTechnologies,Trans-ImperialNetworksandPublicHealthfrom Below, British India, c. 1907-1918”,Social History of Medicine, AdvanceAccess.
! “Vernacularizing theBody: InformationalEgalitarianism,HinduDivineDesignandRace in Physiology School Books, Bengal 1859-1877”,Bulletin of theHistory ofMedicine,91:3,554-85.
! “TheBengaliPharaoh:Upper-CasteAryanism,Pan-Egyptianism,andtheContestedHistory of Biometric Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Bengal”, ComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistory,59:2,446-76.
! “Injection”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Special Issue: English
KeywordsinModernIndia,40:2,333-35.
! “Dis-Locating Subaltern Therapeutics: Totka Chikitsa, Nomad Sociality, and Anti-Consumerism in Colonial Bengal”,AsianMedicine, Special issue: “IndianMedicalTraditionsbetweenStateandVillage:Representation,LegitimationandExclusion”,
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Inpress.
! “SoundMedicine: Towards a Nomadology ofMedicalMantras in Bengal, c. 17th -20thCE”,AsianMedicine,Specialissue:“SacredCures”,Accepted.
! “Akarnan: The Stethoscope and theMaking ofModernAyurveda, Bengal, c. 1894-1952”,TechnologyandCulture,Accepted.
2016
! “Parachemistries:ColonialChemopoliticsinaZoneofContest”,HistoryofScience,54:4,362-82.
! “Truth asMaterio-Moral Practice: The Calling of History forHistories of Science”,
ComparativeStudiesofSouthAsia,AfricaandtheMiddleEast,36:2,354-60.
! “Feringhee Dharma: Augustinians, Amerindians and a Bengali deity in an earlymodernIberianworld”,SouthAsianHistoryandCulture,7:1,37-54.
2015! “Profiling the Profiloscope: Facialization of Race Technologies and the Rise of
BiometricNationalisminInterwarIndia”,History&Technology:SpecialIssueonTechnologyinSouthAsianImaginary,31:4,376-96.
! “TechnospatialImaginaries:MasudRanaandtheVernacularizationofPopularCold
WarGeopolitics inEastPakistan,1966-71”,History&Technology, Special Issue:Nation, Knowledge, and Imagined Futures: Science, Technology, and Nation-Building,Post-1945,31:3,324-40.
2014
! “Vishalyakarani as E. Ayapana: Retro-Botanizing, Embedded Traditions andMultipleHistoricities of Plants in Colonial Bengal, 1890-1940”, Journal of AsianStudies,73:1,65-87.
! “FromSerosocial to Sanguinary Identities: Caste, TransnationalRace Science andtheShiftingMetonymiesofBloodGroupB,Indiac.1918-1960”,IndianEconomicandSocialHistoryReview,51:2,143-76.
! “Swapnaushadhi: The Embedded Logic of Dreams and Medical Innovation inBengal”,Culture,MedicineandPsychiatry,38:3,387-407.
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2013! “In-Disciplining Jwarasur: the Folk/Classical Divide and the Transmateriality of
Fevers in Colonial Bengal”, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 50:3,261-88.
! “Munisipal Darpan: Imagining the Embodied State and Subaltern Citizenship in
1890sCalcutta”,SouthAsianHistory&Culture,4:1,31-47.2012
! “The‘CholeraCloud’intheNineteenthCenturyBritishWorld:HistoryofanObject-without-an-essence”,BulletinoftheHistoryofMedicine,86:3,303-32.
! “CulturesofFear:TechnonationalismandthePostcolonialResponsibilitiesofSTS”,EastAsianScience&TechnologyStudies(EASTS),6:2,267-74.
2011
! “Lokman, Chholeman andManik Pir:Multiple Frames of Institutionalizing IslamicMedicineinModernBengal”,SocialHistoryofMedicine,24:3,720-38.
! “Symptoms of Dis-Ease: New Trends in the Histories of ‘Indigenous’ South AsianMedicines”,HistoryCompass,9:12,887-99.
2010
! “Babon Gaji’s Many Pasts: The Adventures of a Historian in a Counter-Archive”,ContemporarySouthAsia,18:1,89-104.
2009! “Bangladeshe Ayurbed: Ekti Ashastriyo Itihaash” (Ayurveda in Bengal: A Non-
Classical History) [in Bengali], Special issue on History of Medicine, Ababhaas[BengaliJournal],March,112-20.
! “'EktiPrachinJati-rObokkhoy':UponibeshikBharot-eMalariaORace,1860-1930”,TranslationintoBengaliofDavidArnold,“'AnAncientRaceOutworn':MalariaandRaceinColonialIndia,1860-1930”,SpecialissueonHistoryofMedicine,Ababhaas[BengaliJournal],March,123-141.
2008
! Jessie’s Dream at Lucknow: Popular Memorializations of Dissent, Ambiguity andClassintheHeartoftheEmpire”,StudiesinHistory,24:1,77-113.
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! “‘Feeble Bengalis’ and ‘Big Africans’: African Players in Bengali Club Football”,SoccerandSociety,9:2,273-85.
2007
! “Structuring Plurality: Locality, Caste, Class and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-CenturyBengaliDispensaries”,HealthandHistory,9:1,80-105.
2006
! “GoingBeyondEliteMedicalTraditions:TheCaseofChandshi”,AsianMedicine:TraditionandModernity,2:2,277-91.
2005
! “BangaliAyurbed:Frames,TextsandPractices”,TheCalcuttaHistoricalJournal,25:2,15-46.
! “What’s in a Name? The Crisis of Botanical Identification and the Production of
‘EconomicMan’”,SocialScientist,33:5/6,3-25.
! “Sedentary Games and the Nationalist Project: A Silent History?”, TheInternationalJournaloftheHistoryofSport,22:4,699-707.[co-authoredwithNirbedRay]
2004
! “Enframing Bangali Ayurbed: Going Beyond ‘Frontier’ Frames”, Journal of theAsiaticSocietyofBangladesh(Humanities),49:1,13-40.
! “The Early Cricketing Tours: Imperial Provenance and Radical Potential”, The
InternationalJournaloftheHistoryofSport,21:3-4,349-62.
-JournalArticles:Refereed–InProgress-
! “Refracting Circulation: Plague Vaccines, Radiant Contagionism and the Anti-Colonial Mummy, Bengal circa. 1910”, Osiris, Special Issue: Past Imperfect: TheHistoryofScience/Fiction,34,2019.Issueaccepted,articleunderreview.
! “VirtuousFoods:NovelFoodsandtheBraidedScienceofDrabyaguna,Bengal,18th–20th Centuries”, Osiris, Special Issue: Critical Histories of the Food Sciences, 35,2020.Issueaccepted,articleunderpreparation.
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! “SubalternSurgeries: Colonial Lawand theRegulationofTraditionalMedicines intheBritishRaj”,Osiris,SpecialIssue:GlobalMedicalCultures,PropertiesandLaws,36,2021.Issueunderreview.
-JournalArticles:Non-Refereed-
2017! “EmbracingAcademicElitism”,SouthAsianHistoryandCulture,Specialsection:
ContributionsfromSouthAsianHistoryandCultureRoundtable,2016,8:3,354-359.
2014! “AWholeRealmofUnregulatedHealing”,WellcomeHistory, Summer, 53, 14-15.
[WithDavidHardiman]
2008! “Dilemmas of Modernity: Ayurvedic Education in Twentieth Century Bengal”,
WellcomeHistory,March,38,12-13.
2007! “‘My Once Erect Form Is Now Bent With Woe’: The Indian Revolt in Scottish
Ballads”,Biblio:AReviewofBooks,March-April,18-19.! “In GoodHealth: TheHistory ofMedicine in India – British Perspectives”, Special
issueon theHistoryofMedicine,Biblio:AReviewofBooks, September-October,19-20.[co-authoredwithWaltraudErnst]
-ContributionstoBooks:Refereed-
2017
! “Handwriting Analysis as a Dynamic Artisanal Science: The Hardless DetectiveDynastyandtheForensicCulturesoftheBritishRaj”,inIanA.Burney,ChristopherHamlin, and Neil Pemberton eds., Locating Forensic Cultures, Baltimore: JohnHopkinsUniversityPress,Inpress.
! “Olden Times:Watches,Watchmaking and Temporal Culture in Calcutta, c. 1757-1857”,inSarvaniGooptuandIshitaBanerjeeeds.,OnModernIndianSensibilities:Culture,Politics,History,NewDelhi:Routledge,Inpress.
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! “VernacularizingPoliticalMedicine:LocatingtheMedicalBetwixttheLiteralandtheLiterary inTwoTextson theBurdwanFever,Bengal c.1870s”, inRohanDebRoyand Guy Attewell eds., Locating the Medical: Explorations in South AsianHistory,NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,Inpress.
! “From Physiograms to Cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and theMetaphorics of the Nineteenth-Century Ayurvedic Body”, in Sally Shuttleworth,Melissa Dickson and Emilie Taylor-Brown eds.,Medicine andModernity in theLong Nineteenth Century, Manchester: Manchester University Press (SSHMseries),underreview.
! “BraidedSciences:UsefulKnowledge inZonesofContestBeyond theWestuntil c.1860”, in Hugh Slotten, Ronald Numbers and David Livingstone eds., TheCambridge History of Science, vol. 8: Modern Science in National,Transnational, and Global Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,underreview.
2013
! “AmbiguousImperialisms:BritishSubalternAttitudesTowardsthe ‘IndianWar’of1857”, in Andrea Major and Crispin Bates eds., Mutiny at the Margins: NewPerspectivesontheIndianUprisingof1857:VolumeII:BritainandtheIndianUprisingof1857,NewDelhi:SagePublications,110-133.
! “O’er the Cruel Roll of War Drums’: The Politicisation of Legends in the Age ofMechanicalReproduction”, inMarinaCarterandCrispinBateseds.,Mutinyat theMargins:NewPerspectivesontheIndianUprisingof1857:VolumeIII:1857–GlobalPerspectives,NewDelhi:SagePublications,36-66.
2012! “ChandshirChikitsha:ANomadologyofSubalternMedicine”,inDavidHardimanand
Projit B.Mukharji eds.,MedicalMarginality in SouthAsia: Situating SubalternTherapeutics, Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories Series, London,NewYork:Routledge,85-108.
! Introduction,inDavidHardimanandProjitB.Mukharjieds.,MedicalMarginalityinSouth Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics, Intersections: Colonial andPostcolonialHistoriesSeries,London,NewYork:Routledge,6-35.[co-authoredwithDavidHardiman]
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2009! “Pharmacology,‘IndigenousKnowledge’,Nationalism-FewWordsfromtheEpitaphof
SubalternScience”,inMarkHarrisonandBiswamoyPatieds.,TheSocialHistoryofHealthandMedicineinColonialIndia,London,NewYork:Routledge,195-212.
2008
! “Prologue”, inDoloresMartinezandProjitMukharjieds.,Football:FromEnglandtotheWorld,London,NewYork:Routledge,1-3.
! “‘Feeble Bengalis’ and ‘Big Africans’: African Players in Bengali Club Football”, inDoloresMartinezandProjitMukharjieds.,Football:FromEnglandtotheWorld, London,NewYork:Routledge,107-119.
-ContributionstoBook:Non-Refereed-
2007
! “Can The Subaltern Sing? The ‘Indian War’ in Nineteenth Century BritishBroadsides”, in Sharmistha Gooptu and Boria Majumdar eds, Revisiting 1857:Myth,Memory,History,NewDelhi:RoliBooks,92-120.
-BookReviews-
2017• Review of Saurabh Dube, Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins
(Manchester:ManchesterUniversityPress,2017),PostcolonialStudies,Inpress.
• Review of David Arnold, Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2016),NursingHistoryReview,Inpress.
! ReviewofEricaWald,ViceintheBarracks:Medicine,theMilitaryandtheMakingof
Colonial India(Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan,2014), JournalofAsianStudies,76.2,Inpress.
2016! ReviewofMadeleineHealey,IndianSisters:AHistoryofNursingandtheState,1907-
2007(NewDelhi:Routledge,2014),NursingHistoryReview,24,150-52.2012
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! ReviewofMarkHarrison,MedicineinanAgeofCommerceandEmpire:BritainandIts Tropical Colonies 1660-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), SocialHistoryofMedicine,25:1,251-252.
2011! ReviewofIshitaPande,Medicine,RaceandLiberalisminBritishBengal:Symptomsof
Empire(Abingdon:Routledge,2010),SocialHistoryofMedicine,24:1,182-83.2009
! Review of Laurent Pordié, Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: GlobalPolitics of Medical Knowledge and Practice (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), SocialHistoryofMedicine,22:3,661-662.
! Review of Seema Alavi, Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-MuslimMedical Tradition, 1600-1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), SocialHistoryofMedicine,22:2,400-02.
! Review essay, “From History of Colonial Medicine to Plural Medicine in a Global
Perspective: Recent Works on History of Medicine in Colonial/PostcolonialContexts”,NTM: Journal of the History of Science, Technology andMedicine,17:4,447-458.[co-authoredwithWaltraudErnst]
2007
! ReviewofKavitaSivaramakrishnan,OldPotions,NewBottles:Recasting IndigenousMedicineinColonialPunjab,1850-1945(Hyderabad:OrientLongman,2006),SocialScientist,35:5/6,76-79.
2005
! ReviewofSekharBandopadhyay,Caste,CultureandHegemony:SocialDominanceinColonialBengal(NewDelhi:Sage,2004),SocialScientist,33:7/8,94-97.
! “AGrowingBallPark”,JournalreviewofJ.A.Mangan(ed.),SportinSociety:Cultures,
Politics, Media and Commerce (London: Taylor and Francis),Biblio: A Review ofBooks,10:5-6,30-31.
2004
! AdityaMukherjee, Imperialism,Nationalismand theMaking of the IndianWorkingClass(NewDelhi:Sage,2002),SocialScientist,32:5/6,89-93.
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2003! “TrajectoryofViolence”,AndresBjornHansen,PartitionandGenocide:Manifestation
ofViolenceinPunjab,1937-1947(NewDelhi:IndiaResearchPress,2002),Biblio:AReviewofBooks,8:11-12,30.
! The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (ed.), Gender and Nation (New Delhi:NehruMemorialMuseumandLibrary,2001),SocialScientist,31:3/4,90-93.
! “Polemical Pieces”, Sumit Sarkar, Beyond Nationalist Frames: RelocatingPostmodernism,Hindutva,History(Delhi:PermanentBlack,2002),Biblio:AReviewofBooks,8:1-2,31.
OTHERMEDIA
! Essay, “Reincarnating Science in Postcolonial India”, Cosmologics: A Magazine ofScience,Religion,andCulture,HarvardDivinitySchool,forthcoming.
! Podcast, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies and Braided Sciences”,NewBooksNetwork,January16,2017.http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scitechsoc/142scitechsocmukharji.mp3
! Podcast, “Java Spirits, Jewish Networks, Japanese Markets: Crime and ChemicalInnovationin1930sColonialCalcutta”,June30,2016.http://www.pulse-project.org/sites/default/files/Alcohol%20Flows%20-%204.3%20-%20Mukharji.mp4
! Podcast,“AScientificTakeontheIndianNationalIdentity:Mahalanobis’Profiloscope”,TheIntersection,March22,2016.http://www.audiomatic.in/show/a-scientific-take-on-the-indian-national-identity-mahanalobis-profiloscope/
! Web essay, “Biomoral Animacies”, Histories of the Future, June 15, 2015,
http://histscifi.com/essays/mukharji/biomoral
! Webessay, “ParanimateScience”:TheSwarmingUndeadof theRaj”,HistoriesoftheFuture,March9,2015,http://histscifi.com/essays/mukharji/paranimate.html
! Featured in “Ghosts on Penn’s Campus? What do Penn officials have to say?”,
PhiladelphiaInquirer,March10,2015.
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! Featuredin“GhostBoosters”[onThePennGhostProject],ThePennsylvaniaGazette,
February27,2015.
KEYNOTELECTURES
2017
! Columbia University, Graduate Conference: South-South II: Materiality andEmbodiment in Greater Asia and Africa, “Non-Aligned Selves: Reincarnating ColdWarScience”,October28.
! University of Vienna, Conference: Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia,“Immortal Matters: The Material Culture of Longevity Practices, 16th -18th CE”,August1.
INVITEDTALKSANDLECTURES
-Includestalksininvitation-onlyworkshopsandconferences-2017
! Harvard University, Science, Religion and Culture Colloquium, “IslamicateEmbryologyintheEarlyModernArakan:APolitico-EconomicHistory”,October12.
! University of Pennsylvania, Wolf Humanities Center, Mellon Research Seminar,“Souls,ScienceandSocialism:ReincarnatingColdWarScience”,October3.
! UniversityofPennsylvania,HerbertD.KatzCenter forAdvanced Judaic Studies,“Chemistry,CrimeandColonialisminJewishCalcutta,c.1925-47”,October2.
! Massachusetts InstituteofTechnology,Workshop:DecolonizingScience inAsia,“ThereisaGhostintheComputer:ASpectrologyofUncannyRisks”,September2.
! ETH Zurich, Workshop: Fringe Science and Threadbare Knowledge, “RethinkingColdWarSciencefromtheFringes:ParapsychologyResearchinIndia,c.1958-68”,June22-23.
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! Northwestern University,Workshop:Medical Cultures, Traditions, and the Law,“Common Law Ayurveda: A Legal History of Indigenous Medicine in Nineteenth-CenturySouthAsia”,May4-7.
! HarvardUniversity,Workshop:(Dis)LocatingandRemappingHistoriesofScienceandMedicine,“LoveintheTimeofGenes:ImperialLabour,SubalternRomanceandPostcolonialGenetics”,April21-22.
! University of Pennsylvania, Symbioses: A BioSocial Network – FourthInterdisciplinaryRetreat,“AnIndianLoveStoryinGenes”,January27.
2016
! University of Sydney,Workshop: Southern Oceanic Topologies and Genealogies:GeneticExplorationsof thePacificandAustralasiaWorkshop, “TheCoolie’sGhost:Searching for the IndianAncestorsofAustralianAboriginesDuring theColdWar”,December12-14.
! UniversityofGöttingen,Workshop:TransactionsandSociality–EmbeddedCapitaland Markets in Modern South Asia, “Buying in the Bazaars: Embodied Skills ofConsumption,1850-1950”,December2.
! University of Pennsylvania, Penn Program on Race, Science, & Society (PRSS)WorkingGroup,“Ayurgenomics”,November22.
! Columbia University, South Asia Institute, “Dak-Banglor Hatchhani: A SpectralHistoryofStateVampirism,ClassicalGenetics,andSerotribalityinSouthAsia,1920-66”,October3.
! St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, International Research Symposium:Alcoholflowsacrosscultures:DrinkingCulturesinTransnationalandComparativePerspective,“JavaSpirits, JewishNetworks, JapaneseMarkets:CrimeandChemicalInnovationin1930sColonialCalcutta”,June30.
! InternationalInstituteforAsianStudies,UniversityofAmsterdam,Conferenceon Indian Medicine: Between State and Village, “Totka Chikitsa: BetweenNeotraditionalismandSubalternTherapeutics”,June24.
! MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,ConferenceonColonialSciencesandIndigenousKnowledgeSystemsinSouthAsia,“SacredGeographiesoftheBody:EmbryologyandAnatomyinBengali‘Sufi’Texts,16th-17thCenturies”,June10.
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! Drexel University, History Colloquium, “Cat and Mouse: Plague, VernacularBiomedicalTechnologiesandPublicHealthfromBelow”,May24.
! MaxPlanckInstitute for the History of Science, Conference on SacredCures:
SituatingMedicineandReligioninAsia,“Tuk-tak:SubalternTherapeutics,MaterialReligionandOccultCosmopolitanisminBritishBengal”,May3.
! HarvardUniversity,DepartmentoftheHistoryofScience,“SoundMatters:The
BraidedTonesofVernacularSciencesinaColonialEchoChamber”,April12.2015
! AIBS Conference on Bengali Mangalakavya and Related Literature,“Cannibalizing the Eucharist: Catholics, Mughals and Roopram’s Dharmamangal”,October22.
! PrincetonUniversity,SouthAsiaProgram,“Elementary,MyDearHardless!Race,
DetectivesandForensicScienceinBritishIndia”,September24.
! YaleUniversity,ColdWarIndigeneityinScienceandMedicineWorkshop,“CastingValue/ Valuing Caste: Ritual Endogamy and the Genetic Hazards of Radiation”,September3.
! Universities of Manchester & Notre Dame, Locating Forensic Science andMedicine Workshop, “A Cheechee Science: Race and Forensic Graphology in theBritishImperium”,July24.
! Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Calcutta, “Pranpolitics: VernacularMaterialitiesofInterwarBiopolitics”,June26.
! PresidencyUniversity,Calcutta,DepartmentofHistory,“WhyStudyHistory(ofScience)?”,June29.
! UniversityofDundee,Scotland,MonitoringMedicalMarketsWorkshop,“MagicalMarkets”,May27-28.
! University of Chicago,Medicine and its Objects Workshop, “The Physiology ofNeoliberalism:TropicalMedicineattheEndofEmpire”,May14.
! Columbia University, Global History of Science Workshop, “VernacularMaterialities:Vitamins,VitalismsandRaceinBengal,c.1910-1950”,May8-9.
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! Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Lecture Series: Global
Health – Anticipations, Infrastructures, Knowledges, “Tropical Blood: Race andTropicalMedicineinInterwarIndia”,April14.
! University of California-Berkeley, Experimental Populations/ Universal Life:
Rethinking20th-CenturyMedicine,PublicHealthandtheRelationbetweenEconomyand Experiment in South Asia and Beyond Workshop, “Sojourner Physiology:SerotropicalityandtheBirthoftheNeoliberalSubject”,April7.
! University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science Brown Bag Lunch Series,“Sero-Tropicality: Blood and the Reinvention of Tropical Medicine, 1930-1950”,March20.
! UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,SouthAsianStudiesLectureSeries,“Doctoring
Traditions:AyurvedaandSmallTechnologies,1860-1918”,March19.
! JohnsHopkinsUniversity,HistoryofMedicineColloquium,“DoctoringTraditions:Pocket Watched and the Refiguration of Ayurvedic Therapeutics, c. 1860-1930”,February26.
! Princeton University, Histories of the Future Workshop, “Paranimate Science”,
February7.2014
! Indiana University, Dhar India Studies Program, “Translocating the Local: AMiltonicAncestryfortheBengaliCholeraGoddess”,December4.
! Rutgers University, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, “The Chemist asRasayanacharya: Chunilal Bose and the Chemicalization of the Bengali Everyday”,November4.
! University of British Columbia, Dark Matters II: Science and Cold War in a
DecolonizingWorldWorkshop, “Locusts,GiantsandPainkillers:ColdWarand theRumorofTechnoscienceinEastPakistaniSci-Fi,1966-71”,September6.
! FordhamUniversity,DepartmentofHistory, “RacebyAnotherName:VernacularRaceScience,Caste,andtheMakingofSerosocialIdentitiesinIndia,c.1918-1960”,February14.
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2013
! Yale University, Program in the History of Science andMedicine, “TranscendingMeasurability: Watches, Thermometers and the Changing Body-Imaginary inAyurvedicMedicine,c.1870-1930",October14.
! McGillUniversity,DistinguishedSpeakerSeries:InstituteofHealth&SocialPolicy,
“InjectingModernity:ThePharmaceuticalIndustry,PrintandtheVernacularizationofBiomedicinein20thCenturyIndia”,September25.
! SchoolofOriental andAfricanStudies, Department ofHistory, “TheConcept of
RaceinSouthAsia:Risley’sIndianHeirs”,IdeologiesandInstitutions:ConferenceinHonourofPeterRobb,September19.
2012
! Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing, Seminar Series, “InjectableModernity? Pharma-capitalism, Print-culture and the Popularity of Injections inTwentieth-CenturyIndia”,November28.
! University of Göttingen, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Empires on the Brink of NervousBreakdown Workshop, “Nitrogenous Capitalism: Race, Numeralization and theCrisisofColonialCapitalism”,July9.
! HeidelbergUniversity,AssymetricalTranslations:MindandBodyinEuropeanand
IndianMedicineWorkshop,“In-DiscipliningJwarasur:TheFolk/ClassicalDivideandtheTransmaterialityofFeversinColonialBengal”,June26.
! University of Chicago, South Asia Seminar Series, “Nitrogen or Nytrojane? Race,
ColonialismandVernacularMaterialities,Bengalc.1900-30”,May31.
! Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, “Nitrogen/Naitrojane: Race,ColonialismandVernacularMaterialitiesinBengal,c.1860-1930”,March23.
2011! InstitutFrancaisdePondicherry,LowTech/HighTechWorkshop,“The‘Magic’of
Injections?AHistoricalPerspectiveonthePopularityofInjectionsinSouthAsia,c.1920-80”,December15-17.
2010
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! UniversityCollegeLondon,Locating the ‘Medical’ inHistoriesofNineteenthandTwentiethCenturyIndiaWorkshop,“AHairyProblem:Locatingthe‘Medical’inthePrescriptionsandAdvertisementsforHair-Medicines”,April30-May1.
! Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Situating Subalternity in
South Asian Medicine Workshop, “When Lord Shiva Quoted Ebenezer Sibly: ThePoe-ticPastsofGuniniTherapeutics”,February18-20.
2009! Institut Francais de Pondicherry, “Chandshir Chikitsha: A Nomadology of
SubalternScience”,January13.
! UniversityofWarwick,CentrefortheHistoryofMedicine,SituatingSubalternityinSouthAsianMedicineWorkshop,“ChandshirChikitsha:ANomadologyofSubalternMedicine”,May7-8.
! UniversityofPrimorska,FacultyofHumanities&ScienceandResearchCentreofKoper, The International Scientific Conference on Ayurveda, “Ayurveda, Inter-cultural Dialogue and ‘Modern Science’: Revisiting the History of the ‘AyurvedicSystemofMedicine’”,March5-6.
! Universität Heidelberg and Institut Francais de Pondicherry, International
Workshop on Making India a Global Healthcare Destination: Historical andAnthropologicalEnquiriesonCross-borderHealthcare, “FromLiminalReligiositiestoNRIRemittances:TheCyberGeographiesofHealingShrines”,June14-15.
2008! UniversityofOxford,WellcomeUnit for theHistoryofMedicine, Imaginingand
Practising Imperial and Colonial Medicine Workshop, “Vernacularising PublicHealth:AStudyofBengaliMedicalPeriodicals,1870-1930”,January10-12.
! University of Edinburgh, Centre for South Asian Studies, “Chandshir Chikitsha:
SubalternHealingandModernityinColonialBengal”,February21.
! SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,SouthAsiaHistorySeminarSeries,“TheLegend of Jessie Brown: Embodying Dissent and Ambiguity Towards the ‘IndianMutiny’”,April29.
! Newcastle University, Pybus Seminar Series, “Revisiting the Plague in Bengal:GoingBeyond‘Governmentality’”,June9.
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2007! UniversityofEdinburgh,ConferenceonMutinyattheMargins:NewPerspectives
on the Indian Uprising of 1857, “‘Dinna Ye Hear It?’ Mutiny in the Voice of theBritishSubaltern”,July23-26.
2006! SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,SouthAsiaHistorySeminarSeries,“Story
oftheTortoise:TheSocialHistoryofaDiagnosticMethod”,February7.
2005! University of Calcutta, “Arogyo Niketon: The Politics of Health in Bengali
Literature”,February14.
! Jamia Hamdard University, “Crisis of Botanical Identification: Matching NamesandPlants”,February24.
! University of Oxford,Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Hybrids andPartnershipsWorkshop,“FromAyurvedtoAyurbed:QuirkofPronunciationortheLocalizationofaCanon”,September15.
! UniversityofCambridge, SeniorGraduateSeminar, “TamingFlora:StrategiesofBotanicalIdentificationinColonialBengal”,November3.
2004! School of Oriental and African Studies, South Asia History Seminar Series,
“BangaliAyurbed:EmulationorInnovation”,April27.
! AsiaticSocietyofBangladesh,“ItihaashLekhyeShahityerBhumika”[TheRoleofLiteratureinHistoriography],December18.
CONFERENCETALKSANDPARTICIPATION
2017
! Discussant, Presidential Panel on Theorizing Human Agency and the Self: WhatDoes/CanHistoryofTechnologyContributetotheHumanities?,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology(SHOT),October27.
! “Where have all the Neanderthals Gone?: Archaeology, Anthropology, andCryptozoology in South Asia, c. 1914-71”, Preconference on STM in South Asia:Science,Mystery,andMiracle,AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,October26.
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! Discussant,Panel:DecolonialSTS:ViewsfromSouthAsia,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyforSocialStudiesofScience(4S),Boston,Massachusetts,August30.
! “Cold War Inheritances: Transnational Networks, Scientific Modernity and‘Inheritance’ as Problem”, Panel: Curtains of Truth: Determining ScientificLegitimacy in twentieth-century India and China, Annual Meeting of theAssociationofAsianStudies,Toronto,Canada,March17.
! ChairandDiscussant,Panel:PuttingBodiestoWork:NewDirectionsintheHistoryof Colonial Medicine in Southeast Asia,Annual Meeting of the Association ofAsianStudies,Toronto,Canada,March17.
! Moderator,Panel:UniversalScience,TheScienceof Information,1870-1945:TheUniversalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age, University of Pennsylvania,February24.
! “Beyond Centre-Periphery: Hypercolonialism, Braided Sciences and theMicrohistory of Physiograms”, Panel: Science In Their OwnWor[l]ds: Histories,OntologiesandKnowledge-MakingfromtheSouth,25thInternationalCongressofHistoryofScienceandTechnology,RiodeJaneiro,Brazil,July23-29.
! “States of Measure: Chemical Quantification, Subaltern Materialities and theChemopolitics of Empire in Late Victorian India”, Panel: Subaltern Therapeuticsand Reasons of State, 9th International Congress of Traditional AsianMedicines,Kiel,Germany,August7.
! Discussant,Panel:DecolonialSTS:ViewsfromSouthAsia,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyfortheSocialStudiesofScience(4S),August30.
2016
! “Metaphoric Modernity: Railways, Telegraphs and the New Ayurvedic Body inVictorian Bengal”, Panel: Health, Disease, and Technology, Medicine andModernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, St Anne’s College, University ofOxford,UK,September10.
! “TotkaChikitsa:BetweenNeo-traditionalismandSubalternTherapeutics”,IndianMedicine: Between State and Village, International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS),Leiden,Netherlands,June24.
! “JournalsasActorsintheAcademicWorld–ExistingandChangingRoles”,SouthAsianHistoryandCultureRoundtable,Oxford,July1.
! “Between Empire and Nation: War, Competitive Philanthropy and the Birth ofBlood-banking in India”, Panel: Sanguinary Cultures: Historical and Material
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Perspectives on the Materiality of Blood”, Annual Meeting of the AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicine,Minneapolis,MN,April29.
! “CatandMouse:PlagueandtheContestedConstructionofaMedicalTechnology”,Panel: Beastly Raj – Humans, Animals and Animal-Knowledges in the BritishEmpire,AnnualMeetingoftheAssociationofAsianStudies,Seattle,WA,April2.
! “Post-WesternUniversalismoraPara-Science:TheCaseofAyurgenomics”,Panel:DecolonialityMiniConference,EasternSociological Society, Boston,MA,March18.
! “Braided Science: The Biochemicalization of Ayurveda, Bengal, c. 1884-1947”,Roundtable:Ayurveda:Post-WesternHistoriesofScience inSouthAsia”,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,November3.
! “Indian Ink: Document Forgery, Forensic Chemistry, and Dynamic Artisanal
Science in India, 1904-79”, Panel: The Fake and the False: Science, Law, andTrickery”,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,November3.
! “What Rot! The Silk Industry and the Chemopolitics of Decay, Bengal, c. 1884-
1907”,Panel:FromRuralDecaytoRuralReconstruction:VillageDevelopmentandFoodSecuritySchemesinIndia,c.1880-1950,45thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October22.
! “Yakshapuri: A Spectral History of State Vampirism, Classical Genetics, and
Serotribality in India, 1920-66”, Pre-conference on Science, Technology andMedicine(STM)inSouthAsia,45thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October20.
2015
! “The Bengali Pharaoh: Race, the Public Life of Anthropometry and VernacularAnthropology in Bengal in the 20th Century”, Panel: Trust in the Race-Religion-TribeOptic:HistoriesofIndianAnthropology,44thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October24.
! Discussant, Panel: New Historical Perspectives on the South Asian Bazaar: TheEconomy, Culture and Social Character of Marketplaces in Colonial India”, 44thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October23.
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! “SoundPolitics:GramophoneRecordsandtheMakingofthePakistanMovement,c.1920-1947”,Panel:VernacularizingHistoriesofTechnologyinSouthAsia,AnnualMeeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Albuquerque, NM,October9.
! “Sonic Materiality and the Translation of Western Scientific Terminology intoBengali,c.1893-1916”,Panel:TheMaterialityofScienceTranslationinAsiainthe19thand20thCenturies,14thInternationalConferenceontheHistoryofScienceinEastAsia,Paris,France,July9.
! “Injections”, Roundtable: Vernacularizing Medicine, Annual Meeting of theAmericanAssociationoftheHistoryofMedicine,NewHaven,CT,May1.
! Discussant,Panel:ContestingLegitimateFormsofCare,NationalConferenceforPhysician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA,April18.
2014
! Discussant,Panel:BodyPractices,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology,Dearborn,MI,November8.
! “Fermenting Vernaculars: Pasteur, Putrefaction and Colonial Agro-Industries”,Panel:Rot–Scientific,SocialandCulturalEngagementswithPutrefaction,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,Chicago,IL,November7.
! Discussant, Panel: Interrogating Hindutva: Culture and Politics in ContemporaryIndia,43rdAnnualSouthAsiaConference,Madison,WI,October19.
! “LookingBeyondtheMarket:Advertisementsand theRewritingof theHistoryofSurgery in South Asia”, Panel: The Construction of Popular Culture: PrintAdvertisements as a Historical Source, 43rd Annual South Asia Conference,Madison,WI,October18.
! “BloodSize:RaceandHaematologyinColonialIndia”,Panel:MetricsofRaceAcrossFourContinents,AnnualMeetingof theAmericanAssociation for theHistoryofMedicine,Chicago,IL,May10.
! “"Nitrogen Gap: Chemical Orientalism after the Second Industrial Revolution",Panel: Nitrogen and Fertilizer in Global Context”, Chemical Reactions: Chemistryand Global History:The 2014 Cain Conference for the History of Chemistry,ChemicalHeritageFoundation,Philadelphia,PA,April10.
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! “GrislyHistories: Parental Cannibalism in theMangal Kabyas”, Panel: VernacularHistories, Cosmopolitan Pasts, Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA,March28.
! “Duncan Saheb’s Bibi: Translocating the Local in Histories of Medicine”,AnnualSouth Asia Conference, New York University, New York, NY, February 15.
2013
! “Ghosts of Memory: A Visual Journey through Bengali and Hindi Films”, Panel:Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying OtherworldlyAllies, The Penn Ghost Project: A Humanities Symposium and Workshop,Philadelphia,PA,October25.
! “MachinicForensics:BattlingTechno-criminalityinColonialBengal,c.1890-1940”,Symposium on Forensic Histories: Global Perspectives, International CongressfortheHistoryofScience,TechnologyandMedicine,Manchester,UK,July23.
! “Hydrotherapy in India: Colonial, Globalized, Transnational or Vernacular?”,AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicine,Atlanta,GA,May19.
! “DoctoringMisfortune:TheMutualityofMedicineandPortentousPhysiognomyinBengal, c. 11th-19th CE”, Panel: Signs and Similitude: Towards a History ofPhysiognomy in SouthAsia,AssociationofAsianStudies, SanDiego, CA,March23.
2012
! “Agrotech,Petrotech,Infotech:TheChangingSociotechnicalImaginariesofPopularBangladeshi Technostatism, 1966-2010”, Panel: Nation, State and SociotechnicalImaginariesinColdWarAsiaandBeyond,SocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology,Copenhagen,Denmark,October5.
! “The Glamorous State: Masud Rana and Everyday Statism in East Pakistan andBangladesh”, Panel: ‘Superheroes’ and Statism: Imagining the Everyday State inSouthAsia,AssociationofAsianStudies,Toronto,Canada,March15.
2011
! Discussant, Panel: The Problem of Decline,Workshop on Golden Ages: UniversalHistoriesandtheOriginsofScience,TheHeymanCenterfortheHumanitiesattheColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,NY,December9.
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! “Cultures of Fear: Historicizing the Social in order to Save it from the Nation”,SocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology,Cleveland,OH,November3-6.
2010
! “The Birth of New ‘Gods’: Magic, Islamiyo Tontro and the Expansion of theSupernaturalUniverseinPost-ColonialWestBengal”,Panel:MiraclesandMagicinSouthAsia,AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October14-17.
2009
! “Shirk, Sharia andHinduAppropriation: StructuringAuthority inMuslimHealingShrines in 20th Century West Bengal”, British Association of South AsianStudies,Edinburgh,UK,March-April.
2004
! “ReproductiveHealthasaMetaphor forDifference:FromMoralPolitics toRacialSexualities”,Panel:ColonialMedicine,EuropeanAssociationfortheSouthAsianStudies,Lund,Sweden,July.
! “Enframing Bangali Ayurbed”, Panel: Bengal Studies, European Association fortheSouthAsianStudies,Lund,Sweden,July.
CONFERENCEANDPANELORGANIZATION
! Co-Organizer, “Trans-Global South Conversation on the Concept of ‘Technology’”,
Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology(SHOT),October27,2017.
! WorkshoponNewApproachestoSTEMinSouthAsia,UniversityofPennsylvania,November17,2016.
! “Ayurveda: Post-WesternHistories of Science in South Asia”, Roundtable,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,November3,2016.
! Co-Organizer, “Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) in South Asia”, Pre-Conference, 45th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI, October 20,2016.
! “Speculative Sciences, Alternative Futures: Experiments in Desi-Futurism”,Roundtable, 45th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI, October 22,2016.
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! Co-Organizer, ‘Decolonizing Science in Asia’,Penn State Asian Studies SummerInstitute,June13-17,2016.
! “Beastly Raj – Humans, Animals and Animal-Knowledges in the British Empire”,Panel,AnnualMeetingoftheAssociationofAsianStudies,Seattle,April2,2016.
! “Problematizing the Local in Global Histories of Science”, Annual Conference ofSTEMinSouthAsia,UniversityofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,December4,2015.
! “Trust in the Race-Religion-Tribe Optic: Histories of Indian Anthropology”, Panel,44thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,October24,2015.
! “Rot:Scientific,SocialandCulturalEngagementswithPutrefaction”,Panel,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,Chicago,November6-9,2014.
! “LiminalDeitiesofSouthAsia”,Conference,McMasterUniversity,Niagara-on-the-Lake,Canada,September27-28,2010.
! “SituatingSubalternityinSouthAsianMedicine”,Conference,CentrefortheStudyofDevelopingSocieties,NewDelhi,February18-20,2010.
! “MiraclesandMagicinSouthAsia”,Panel,39thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,October14-17,2010.
! “HealthandHealingintheTwentiethCentury”,Panel,BritishAssociationofSouthAsianStudiesConference,Edinburgh,UK,March30-April1,2009.
! Co-organizer,“SituatingtheSubalterninSouthAsianMedicalHistory”,Conference,CentrefortheHistoryofMedicine,UniversityofWarwick,UK,May7-8,2009.
! Co-organizer, “Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial andIndigenousMedicines inTransnational Perspective”, Conference,OxfordBrookesUniversity,UK,September16-17,2008.
! “Soccer,Politics,Society”,Conference,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UK,June16-17,2006.
! “MedicineandColonialSociety1800-1950”,Panel,19thEuropeanAssociationforSouthAsianStudiesConference,Leiden,June27-30,2006.
! “Subalternity andMedicine in Colonial India”, Panel,35th Annual Conference onSouthAsia,Madison,October20-22,2006.
PUBLICOUTREACH–INVITEDTALKS
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! Participant, Public Forum: Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of BiobankingandtheGeneticArchive,ConsortiumfortheHistoryofScience,TechnologyandMedicine,September28,2017.
! “Ayurveda, SmallTechnologies, andBraidedSciences”, SymposiumonMind-Body:Eastern HealingMethods – A Premier, Indo American Psychiatric Association/TheAllianceforPsychoanalyticThought/SouthAsianAmericanForum,March26,2017.
! “Biopiracy: From the Jesuit's Bark to the Free Tree”, Kings Court English CollegeHouse,UniversityofPennsylvania,April19,2016.
! “Colonial Medicine and Science in South Asia”, Community College of
Philadelphia,March26,2016.PROFESSIONALSERVICE
! Member, Committee on Meetings and Programs, History of Science Society,
January2017–present.
! Member, International Scientific Committee, 9th International Congress ofTraditionalAsianMedicines(ICTAMIX),InternationalAssociationfortheStudyofTraditionalAsianMedicines(IASTAM),July2016–present.
! Member,ProgramCommittee,AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicine,April2016–present.
! Co-Director, “Decolonizing Science in Asia”, Penn State Asian Studies SummerInstitute,January–June2016.
! Institutional Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute of BangladeshStudies,August2013–present.
! Co-Organizer, Working Group, “Science Beyond the West”, Philadelphia AreaCenterforHistoryofScience(PACHS),October2014–present.
! Member, Prize Committee, Forum for the History of Science in Asia, History ofScienceSociety,2014–present.
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! AssociateEditor,SouthAsianHistoryandCulture,2014–present.
! RegionalEditor(Asia),HistoryCompass,2014–present.
! Member, PressmanAward Committee,AmericanAssociation for theHistory ofMedicine,July2014–January2015.
! Co-founder, Forum for the History of Science in Asia (FHS Asia), Special Interest
Group,HistoryofScienceSociety,November2010.
! GrantReviewerforArtsandHumanitiesResearchBoard,UK,LeverhulmeTrust,UK,WellcomeTrust,UK,andShastriIndo-CanadianFoundation,Canada.
UNIVERSITYSERVICE
! Member,WorkingGroup,PennProgramonRace,Science&Society,October2014–
present.! Organizer,FacultyWorkingGroup,"ScienceandEmbodiedDifferenceinSouthAsia:
InterdisciplinaryPerspectives",UniversityofPennsylvania,Fall2015–Fall2016.
! Member,FacultyWorkingGroup,ThePennGhostProject:AHumanitiesWorkshop,UniversityofPennsylvania,2013-2016.
! Co-Leader, Lunchtime Discussion on “Reconciling Teaching Facts and TeachingCriticality”, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, 18November2014.
! Contributor,ActionPlanforFacultyDiversityandExcellenceMeeting,UniversityofPennsylvania,October2011.
! Co-Leader,Workshopon"GoingontheAcademic JobMarket:Advice fromFacultyMembersintheHumanitiesandSocialSciences",CareerServicesOffice,UniversityofPennsylvania,September2011.
! Member, Executive Committee, Department of History, McMaster University,Canada,2010-2011.
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! Member, Ethics Committee, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University, Canada,2010-2011.
! Humanities Representative to Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Humanities,McMasterUniversity,Canada,2010-2011.
! Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, McMasterUniversity,Canada,2009-2011.
SCHOOLSERVICE
! Member, Search Committee, Position of Director of the Center for the Advanced
StudyofIndia(CASI),Spring2017–present.
! Member, Search Committee, Position of Assistant Professor in Material Religion(tenure-track),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,Fall2016–Spring2017.
! Respondent,RahulMukherjee:“ContestedImaginaries:DebatingNuclearMatters”,
SouthAsiaFacultyWorks-in-ProgressSeminar,SouthAsiaCenter,September29,2016.
! Director,EarlyCareerFellowshiponHistory&AnthropologyofSTEMinSouthAsia,SouthAsiaCenter,January2016–present.
! Organizer, Annual STEM in South Asia Lecture Series and Conference, South AsiaCenter,September2015–present.
! Member, Faculty PlanningGroup onDiversity, Inequality, andHumanWell-Being,“Our Foundations and Frontiers: A StrategicPlanfor Penn Art & Sciences”,September2015–present.
! Member, India Planning Group, Global Inquiries initiative, “Our Foundations andFrontiers:AStrategicPlanforPennArt&Sciences",August2015–present.
! Coordinator,SouthAsianStudiesColloquiumSeries,Fall2014-Spring2015.
! Member, Search Committee, Position of Assistant Professor in Material Religion
(tenure-track),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,Fall2014-Spring2015.
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! Member,StrategicPlanningFacultyWorkingGrouponSociety,Science,andHealth,
October2013-October2014.
! Participant, JobSearch,PositionofAssistantProfessor (tenure-track),DepartmentofSouthAsianStudies,February2012.
! Contributor, The federal review of Title VI funding for South Asian Studies and
helpeddraftsuccessfulapplicationforrenewaloffunding.
! Interviewer, Postdoctoral candidate, Gender, Sexuality and Women's StudiesProgram,UniversityofPennsylvania,February2012.
DEPARTMENTSERVICE
! Member, Search Committee, Position of Assistant Professor in Global Health
(tenure-track), Department of History & Sociology of Science, Fall 2014–Spring2015.[RecruitedDr.RamahMcKay].
! Member, Search Committee, Position of Assistant Professor in History of Non-
WesternScience(tenure-track),DepartmentofHistory&SociologyofScience,Fall2013-Spring2014.[RecruitedDr.HarunKucuk].
! Co-ordinator,MondayWorkshopSeries,Fall2012—Fall2014.
! ParticipantandInterviewer, JobSearch,TenuredPositionofAssociateand/orFull
Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, January 2012-April2013.
! Co-Leader,Workshopon"Teaching theGlobal",UniversityofPennsylvania,March
2012.PROFESSIONALASSOCIATIONS
AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicineAssociationforAsianStudiesAmericanInstituteofBangladeshStudiesAmericanHistoricalAssociationHistoryofScienceSocietySocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology
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TEACHINGSERVICE
Assistant Professor, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,July2011-present.
Fall2017• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSSC518:BotanicEmpire:PlantsandEmpire,c.1750-1950.
Spring2017• HSOC436:Biopiracy• HSSC597:OtherReasons:PostcolonialHistoriesofScience
Fall2016• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSOC337:RaceandMedicineintheGlobalSouth
Spring2016• HSOC436:Biopiracy• HSSC611-301–GraduateReadingSeminarinHistoryofMedicineFall2015• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSOC337:RaceandMedicineintheGlobalSouthSpring2015• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSOC436:Biopiracy
Fall2014• HSOC107:IntroductiontoScience,MedicineandTechnologyinColonialIndia• HSSC597:OtherReasons:PostcolonialHistoriesofScienceSpring2014• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSSC611:GraduateReadingSeminarinHistoryofMedicine
Fall2013-TeachingRelief
Spring2013• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSSC536:ImperialismandMedicineintheBritishWorld
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Fall2012• HSOC107:Science,MedicineandTechnologyinColonialIndia• STS016:IslamicScience
Spring2012• HSSC586:MakingIndiaModern• HSOC347:AsianMedicinesandModernity
Fall2011• STS307:GlobalizationandMedicineinModernIndia• STS107:Science,MedicineandTechnologyinColonialIndia
AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistory,McMasterUniversity,July2009-June2011.
Spring2011• History1BB3:GlobalHistoryintheTwentiethCentury• History3IG3:Gandhi:HisLifeandAfterlifeFall2010• History4SA3:NationalismsinSouthAsia• History2HI3:HistoricalInquiry:OtherPasts-NegotiatingMemories,MemorialsandPopularHistories
• History:IndependentStudyinImperialismandMedicine(1student)Spring2010• History2HI3:HistoricalInquiry:OtherPasts-NegotiatingMemories,MemorialsandPopularHistories
• History792:HistoryofSouthAsia
Fall2009• History1BB3:GlobalHistoryintheTwentiethCentury• History4SA3:NationalismsinSouthAsia
Lecturer,DepartmentofHistory,NewcastleUniversity,UK,September2007-August2008.
Spring2008• History:IdentitiesinWorldHistory• History:MughalIndia:ASurvey• History:PartitionsinSouthAsia• History:HistoryofTropicalMedicine• History:HistoricalMethods:Post-ModernismandtheWritingofHistory
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Fall2007• History:TheMakingofModernIndia:IndiaintheTwentiethCentury• History:GandhiandGandhianism• History:PracticingHistory(SubalternStudies)
PostdoctoralFellow,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofSouthampton,UK,September2006-August2007.
Spring2007• History:Normal/Abnormal:AHistoryofSexuality• History:HealthandHistory
Tutor,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UK,September2005-June2006.• History:IntroductiontoSouthAsianHistory
GUESTLECTURES
! “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences”, inGU4800: Global History of Science, Center for Science and Society, ColumbiaUniversity,September15,2017.
! “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences”, inSTS.417 – STS Seminar on the Global South, Program in Science, Technology andSociety,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,April24,2017.
! “Biopiracy”, in International Order-Making, Lauder Global Program, The LauderInstitute,UniversityofPennsylvania,April21,2016.
! “Ghosts and the History of Science”, in RELS013 - Gods, Ghosts & Monsters,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania,October26,2015.
! “Colonialism and Health”, in HSOC10 – Health & Societies, Department of theHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,January22,2015.
UNDERGRADUATESUPERVISOR
! NataliaA.Czerwonka,PharmaceuticalsinIndia,IndependentStudy,Spring2016.
! CarolineD.Kee,“TheProblemofPluralism:Howmedicalproviderspracticewithinasystem of specialized healing in the Kumaon Region of the Central IndianHimalayas”,HonorsThesis,Fall2014.
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! SoniaRajuDavey,MedicineinSouthAsia,IndependentStudy,Spring2013.
! ChaitanyaB.Jayanti,SocietalPerceptionsofStutteringinIndia,IndependentStudy,Spring2013.
! BhargaviAmmu,TraditionalMedicine inHyderabad,Capstone IndependentStudy,Fall2012.
POSTGRADUATETHESISADVISOR
! Baishakh Chakrabarti, “Gambling and Speculative Practices in Colonial India:1867—1945”, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2016—present,Supervisor.
! Allegra Giovine, “Making Money on the Steps of the Buddha: Charting theVernacular Economy in Colonial Burma, circa 1910-1930”, Department ofHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,2013—present,Supervisor.
! Eram Alam, “The Care of Foreigners: A History of South Asian Physicians in theUnited States, 1965-2015, Department of History and Sociology of Science,UniversityofPennsylvania,2013—2016,CommitteeMember.
! DivyaRoy,"ReformingMothers,CreatingCitizens:ThePoliticsofWomen'sHealthand Family Planning in Colonial and Postcolonial South India", Department ofHistory and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2011—2014,CommitteeMember.
! Jason M. Chernesky, History of Medicine in the British Empire, GraduateIndependent Study,Department ofHistory and Sociology of Science,University ofPennsylvania,Fall2014.
! LukeM.Messac,HistoryofMedicineintheBritishEmpireI,GraduateIndependentStudy,DepartmentofHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,Fall2014.
! LukeM.Messac,HistoryofMedicineintheBritishEmpireII,GraduateIndependentStudy,DepartmentofHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,Spring2014.
! Baishakh Chakrabarti, Economic History, Graduate Independent Study,DepartmentofHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,Spring2014.
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! MaysoonSheikh,“ColonialGynaecology:ContagiousDiseaseActsandtheTransferof Gynaecological Knowledge in Colonial South Asia”, Department of History,McMasterUniversity,2011,Supervisor.
! Zachary Stockill, “Building Bridges: The Beatle Impact on ‘India’ in the Post-colonialImagination”,DepartmentofHistory,McMasterUniversity,2011.
DOCTORALEXTERNALEXAMINER
! Souvik Naha, “Cricket, Public Culture, and Mediated Identities in Calcutta, 1934-1999”,DepartmentofHumanities,SocialandPoliticalSciences,ETHZurich,March2017.
! Chandrima Sinha, “Unabingsho Shotoker shesh dikey ebong Bingsho Shotokergoraye Banglaye Jati Andolon ebong Borno Shomajer Punorbinyash: Mahishyo oShubornobonikShomaj”[“CasteMovementsandtheRestructuringofCasteSocietyin the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries in Bengal: Mahishya andSubarnabanik Societies”], Department of History,University of Calcutta, August2013.
OTHERPROFESSIONALACTIVITIES
BookManuscriptReview: CambridgeUniversityPress
Routledge(SouthAsianStudies)PearsonLongman,UKUniversityofChicagoPress
JournalManuscriptReview:
ComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistoryBulletinfortheHistoryofMedicineSocialHistoryofMedicineTechnology&CultureAnthropology&MedicineMedicineAnthropologyTheoryMedicalAnthropology
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AsianMedicineIndianEconomic&SocialHistoryReviewStudiesinHistorySouthAsianHistoryandCultureHistoryCompassInternationalJournalfortheHistoryofSportHistoriaHospitalum
PresidencyCollegeHistoricalJournalExternalGrantReviews: ETHZurichResearchGrants
ArtsandHumanitiesResearchBoard,UnitedKingdomLeverhulmeTrust,UnitedKingdomWellcomeTrust,UnitedKingdomShastriIndo-CanadianFoundation,UnitedKingdomFCT-FoundationforScienceandTechnology,Lisbon,PortugalEuropeanResearchCouncil,EuropeanUnionCzechScienceFoundation
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