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Anupama Rao is a professor of history at Columbia University, with research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology;\u00a0social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism.<\/p>\n
Her book,\u00a0The Caste Question<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of California Press, 2009) theorizes caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers) in producing alternative genealogies of political subject-formation. She has also written on the themes of colonialism and humanitarianism, and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality. Recent publications include:\u00a0Discipline and the Other Body<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2006); “Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition,”\u00a0Subaltern Studies XII; Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment<\/em>\u00a0(co-editor, special issues of Gender and History, 2004), and\u00a0Gender and Caste: Issues in Indian Feminism<\/em>\u00a0(Kali for Women, 2003).<\/p>\n Rao has served as president of the Society for the Advancement of the History of South Asia (SAHSA) of the American Historical Association (2010); director of the project on \u201cLiberalism and its Others,\u201d at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia University; and as a member of the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 2010-12. Her work has been supported by grants from the ACLS; the American Institute for Indian Studies; the Mellon Foundation; the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the SSRC. She was a Fellow-in-Residence at the National Humanities Center from 2008-09, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford during 2010-11. She was a Fellow at REWORK (Humboldt University, Berlin) in 2014-2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anupama Rao is a professor of history at Columbia University, with research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology;\u00a0social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. Her book,\u00a0The Caste Question\u00a0(University… Continue Reading