Dec11,2019

1

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.

Dec11,2019

2

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

§ Co-PI,SPARCGrantof theGovernmentof India, “Translations inColonial India,1800-1947:Paradigms,Networks,andPractices”,proposalsubmitted.

§ ResearchFellowship,VisitingScholar,DepartmentII,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,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.

§ Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: John E. SawyerSeminarson theComparative Studyof Cultures, “Religion andMedicine in theGlobal South”, [Recommended by the University to The Mellon Foundation,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.

Dec11,2019

3

§ Standard Research Grant, Arts Research Board, McMaster University, January

2009.

§ WellcomePostdoctoralResearchFellowship,2006-2010.

§ FelixFellowshipforDoctoralDissertation,2003-2006.

§ CentralResearchFund,UniversityofLondon,2005.

§ SOASFieldworkGrant,2004.

§ QualifiedUGCNET(NationalEligibilityTestforLectureship,India),2001.

§ Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Historical Research for MPhil

Project,2001.

§ Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi,

2001.

ACADEMICAFFILIATIONS

DepartmentofSouthAsiaStudiesGraduateGroup,UniversityofPennsylvania,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.

Dec11,2019

4

2009

§ Nationalizing theBody: TheMarket, Print andDaktariMedicine in ColonialBengal,1860-1930,London:AnthemPress,368pp.[Paperback2011;Indianedn.2012]

-Monograph:InProgress-

§ Duniya Dotcom: Computer Imaginaries in Modern Bangladesh, London: Routledge,contractinhand.

§ MaverickScience:De-EssentializingHistoryofColonialScience[inpreparation].

-EditedBooks:Refereed-

-Forthcoming-§ Co-editor[withMarwaElshakry,PabloF.GómezandGabrielaSotoLaveaga],Global

Histories of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Cambridge Elements Series,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,proposalsubmitted.

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.

Dec11,2019

5

-JournalArticles:Refereed--Forthcoming-

§ “VirtuousFoods:NovelFoodsandtheBraidedScienceofDrabyaguna,Bengal,18th–20th Centuries”, Osiris, Special Issue: Critical Histories of the Food Sciences, 35,2020.Inpress.

§ “SubalternSurgeries: Colonial Lawand theRegulationofTraditionalMedicines in

the British Raj and Beyond”, Osiris, Special Issue: Global Medical Cultures,PropertiesandLaws,36,2021.Inpress.

§ “Darwin’s Bulbuls: Avian Domestication, Imperial Science and Colonial Culture”,

BJHSThemes,SpecialIssue:TheDescentofDarwin,2021.Inpress.

§ “Bloodworlds: A Hematology of the 1952 Indo-Australian Genetical Survey of theChenchus”, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Special Issue: SouthernTopologies and Genealogies: Genetic Explorations of the Pacific, Issue submitted,underreview.

§ “DesireandDifference:LocatingtheSexualinAbulHasanat’sJounoBigyan”,South

Asia:JournalofSouthAsianStudies,SpecialIssue:"TranslatingSex:SexologyandIndianHistory,1880s-1960,Issueaccepted,articleunderreview.

§ “Cast(e)ing Translation: Brojonath Shaha and the Practices of Scientific

TranslatabilityinColonialBengal”,Osiris,SpecialIssue:TranslatingMedicineinthePremodernWorld,underpreparation.

2019

§ “Hylozoic Anticolonialism: Archaic Modernity, Internationalism, andElectromagnetisminBritishBengal,1909–1940”,Osiris,SpecialIssue:“PresentingFuturesPast:ScienceFictionandtheHistoryofScience”,34:1,

§ “Akarnan: The Stethoscope and Making of Modern Ayurveda, Bengal, c. 1894—1952”,TechnologyandCulture,60:4,953-78.

Dec11,2019

6

2018

§ “OccultedMaterialities”,HistoryandTechnology,SpecialIssue:“ThinkingwiththeWorld:HistoriesofScienceandTechnologyfrom‘OutThere’”,34:1,31-40.

§ “TheFlameandtheBreeze:LifeandLongevityPracticesinThreeBengaliSufiTextsfromtheLongSeventeenthCentury”,HistoryofScienceinSouthAsia,5:2,232-61.

§ “CatandMouse:AnimalTechnologies,Trans-ImperialNetworksandPublicHealthfromBelow,BritishIndia,c.1907-1918”,SocialHistoryofMedicine,31:3,510-32.

§ “DecolonizingScienceinAsia”(co-authoredwithPrakashKumarandAmitPrasad),Verge:StudiesinGlobalAsias,4:1,24-43.

§ “Dis-Locating Subaltern Therapeutics: Totka Chikitsa, Nomad Sociality, and Anti-Consumerism in Colonial Bengal”,AsianMedicine, Special issue: “IndianMedicalTraditionsbetweenStateandVillage:Representation,LegitimationandExclusion”,13:1-2,134-169.

2017

§ “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,40:2,333-35.2016

§ “Parachemistries:ColonialChemopoliticsinaZoneofContest”,HistoryofScience,54:4,362-82.

§ “Truth asMaterio-Moral Practice: The Calling of History forHistories of Science”,

ComparativeStudiesofSouthAsia,AfricaandtheMiddleEast,36:2,354-60.

Dec11,2019

7

§ “Feringhee Dharma: Augustinians, Amerindians and a Bengali deity in an early

modernIberianworld”,SouthAsianHistoryandCulture,7:1,37-54.

2015

§ “Profiling the Profiloscope: Facialization of Race Technologies and the Rise ofBiometricNationalisminInterwarIndia”,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.

2013

§ “In-Disciplining Jwarasur: the Folk/Classical Divide and the Transmateriality ofFevers 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.

Dec11,2019

8

§ “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.

2008

§ Jessie’s Dream at Lucknow: Popular Memorializations of Dissent, Ambiguity andClassintheHeartoftheEmpire”,StudiesinHistory,24:1,77-113.

§ “‘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.

Dec11,2019

9

§ “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: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]

Dec11,2019

10

-ContributionstoBooks:Refereed-

-Forthcoming-

§ “‘Is there a ghost in the computer?’: A Spectrology of UncannyRisks”, in BhaskarSarkar and Bishnupriya Ghosh eds. Routledge Companion to Media and Risk,London:Routledge,March2020.

§ “GariahatWhisky:BootleggedCosmopolitanismandtheMakingoftheNationalistic

State, 1923-35”, inWaltraudErnst ed.AlcoholFlowsAcrossCultures:DrinkingCultures in Transnational and Comparative Perspective, London: Routledge,March2020.

§ “From Physiograms to Cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and theMetaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic Body”, in Sally Shuttleworth,MelissaDicksonandEmilieTaylor-Browneds.,ProgressandPathology:MedicineandCultureintheNineteenthCentury,Manchester:ManchesterUniversityPress,February2020.

§ “SoundMedicine:MedicalMantrasinBengal,c.17th-20thCE”,inMichaelStanley-BakerandC.PierceSalgueroeds.,ReligionandMedicineinAsia:MethodologicalInsights and Innovations, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, inpress.

§ “MagicofBusiness:OccultForcesintheBazaarEconomy”,inAjayGandhi,Barbara

Harriss-White, Douglas E. Haynes and Sebastian Schwecke eds., RethinkingMarkets in Modern India: Contested Jurisdiction and Embedded Exchange,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,2020,inpress.

§ “HairyRaces:Hair andHumanDifference in theBritishEmpire, c. 1850-1920”, in

MarinaMogilnered.,ACulturalHistoryofRaceintheAgeofEmpireandNationState,London:Bloomsbury,2020,inpress.

§ “Seroreligious Identities and Serohistories: The Geneticisaton of Religious

DifferenceinSouthAsiaandBeyond,c.1950-1970”, inDorothyE.Roberts,NatalieShibley,andEramAlameds.,OrderingtheHuman,articlesubmitted.

Dec11,2019

11

2019

§ “Handwriting Analysis as a Dynamic Artisanal Science: The Hardless DetectiveDynastyandtheForensicCulturesoftheBritishRaj”,inIanBurneyandChristopherHamlineds.,GlobalForensicCultures:MakingFactand Justice in theModernEra,Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,86-111.

§ “Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’sTheMantrayānaofRārh(1979)”, inC.PierceSalgueroed.,BuddhismandMedicine:An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources, vol. 2, New York:ColumbiaUniversityPress,229-232.

2018

§ “Olden Times:Watches,Watchmaking and Temporal Culture in Calcutta, c. 1757-1857”,inSarvaniGooptuandIshitaBanerjeeeds.,OnModernIndianSensibilities:Culture,Politics,History,NewDelhi:Routledge,99-120.

§ “VernacularizingPoliticalMedicine:LocatingtheMedicalBetwixttheLiteralandtheLiterary inTwoTextson theBurdwanFever,Bengal c.1870s”, inRohanDebRoyand Guy Attewell eds., Locating the Medical: Explorations in South AsianHistory,NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,235-63.

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 Subaltern

Dec11,2019

12

Therapeutics, 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]

2009

§ “Pharmacology,‘IndigenousKnowledge’,Nationalism-FewWordsfromtheEpitaphofSubalternScience”,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.

-BengaliArticles:RefereedandNon-Refereed-

2011§ “GramshiOMasudRana:RashtrerMohiniShaktiOTarBhog”(GramsciandMasud

Rana:TheSeductivePoweroftheStateandItsConsumption),AlochonaChakra,31,1-13.

Dec11,2019

13

2009§ “Bangladeshe Ayurbed: Ekti Ashastriyo Itihaash” (Ayurveda in Bengal: A Non-

Classical History) [in Bengali], Special issue on History of Medicine, Ababhaas,March,112-20.

§ “'EktiPrachinJati-rObokkhoy':UponibeshikBharot-eMalariaORace,1860-1930”,TranslationintoBengaliofDavidArnold,“'AnAncientRaceOutworn':MalariaandRaceinColonialIndia,1860-1930”,SpecialissueonHistoryofMedicine,Ababhaas,March,123-141.

-BookReviews-

2018§ ReviewofSujataMukherjee,Gender,MedicineandSocietyinColonialIndia:Women’s

HealthCare inNineteenth-andEarlyTwentieth-CenturyBengal (NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress,2017),AsianMedicine,13:1-2,369-371.

§ ReviewofEricaWald,ViceintheBarracks:Medicine,theMilitaryandtheMakingofColonial India(Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan,2014), JournalofAsianStudies,76.2,280-81.

§ Review of Saurabh Dube, Subjects of Modernity: Time-Space, Disciplines, Margins(Manchester:ManchesterUniversityPress,2017),PostcolonialStudies,AdvanceAccess.

§ Review of David Arnold, Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), Nursing History Review, Inpress.

2016

§ ReviewofMadeleineHealey,IndianSisters:AHistoryofNursingandtheState,1907-2007(NewDelhi:Routledge,2014),NursingHistoryReview,24,150-52.

2012

§ ReviewofMarkHarrison,MedicineinanAgeofCommerceandEmpire:BritainandIts Tropical Colonies 1660-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), SocialHistoryofMedicine,25:1,251-252.

Dec11,2019

14

2011

§ ReviewofIshitaPande,Medicine,RaceandLiberalisminBritishBengal:SymptomsofEmpire(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.

Dec11,2019

15

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

2019§ Cover story, “Tarashankarer Jibonmoshai hariye gelen merukorone” (Tarashankar’s

Jibonmoshai lost in apolarizedworld–onAyurvedicmedicine inBengali literature),Rabibasariya: Ananda Bazar Patrika, 3 November.https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/article-on-the-character-of-jiban-in-novel-arogya-niketan-and-the-role-of-ayurveda-in-india-1.1065947

§ Podcast, “Race in India, Part 3”,Speaking of Race, University of Alabama, 21March2019. https://soundcloud.com/user-88955638/race-in-india-part-3-projit-mukharji-interview

2018§ Cover story, “Sonar Kellar Khnoje” (In Search of the Golden Fortress – on

parapsychology and cinema), Rabibasariya: Ananda Bazar Patrika, 2 December.https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/article-on-para-psychological-society-in-kolkata-1.907269?fbclid=IwAR2LLMUn5SOKoQZEao4McgCCUFUwY3datxIh3tDGr1Ifd6YLslTDACBTA08

Dec11,2019

16

§ Cover story, “Kolkatar Frankenstain” (The Frankenstein of Calcutta – on the colonialroots of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein), Rabibasariya: Ananda Bazar Patrika,September 9. https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/rabibashoriyo/james-lind-the-frankenstein-of-kolkata-1.860859?ref=patrika-topnav&fbclid=IwAR2fPuTPFPmyxhXqQ-SLvTDParjm74TgRrhSMzs7q1bbn59LZszRdLBGsIk

§ Podcast,“TellingTime”,VentriclesPodcast,Season1,Episode1,Science,Religionand

Culture Program, Harvard University, 4 February 2018.https://src.hds.harvard.edu/ventricles/episode-one

§ Podcast, “The Pulse”,Ventricles Podcast, Season 1, Episode 2, Science, Religion andCulture Program, Harvard University, 25 August 2018.https://src.hds.harvard.edu/ventricles/episode-two

§ Podcast, “Vaidyas with Wristwatches”, Ventricles Podcast, Season 1, Episode 3,

Science, Religion and Culture Program, Harvard University, 20 September 2018.https://src.hds.harvard.edu/ventricles/episode-three

2017§ Essay, “Reincarnating Science in Postcolonial India”, Cosmologics: A Magazine of

Science,Religion,andCulture,HarvardDivinitySchool,Fall,2017.

§ Podcast, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies and Braided Sciences”,NewBooksNetwork,January16,2017.http://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scitechsoc/142scitechsocmukharji.mp3

2016§ Podcast, “Java Spirits, Jewish Networks, Japanese Markets: Crime and Chemical

Innovationin1930sColonialCalcutta”,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/

Dec11,2019

17

2015§ 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.

§ 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-2019

§ UniversityofChicago,HistoryandPhilosophyofScienceWorkshop,“TheSoulasaScientificObject:An ‘Anti-Materialist Science inPostcolonial India’, c. 1952-1977”,November22.

§ University of Pennsylvania, Religious Studies Colloquium, “Soul Science:ParapsychologyinIndia,c.1952-77”,November14.

§ HarvardUniversity,ScienceandTechnologyinAsiaSeminarSeries,“Betweenthe

Yogi and the Commissar: Imagining Decolonial Science in Postcolonial India, c.1952-77,November4.

Dec11,2019

18

§ NorthwesternUniversity,2019-20KlopstegSeminarSeries,“DecolonialSciencein

aPostcolonialState:ParapsychologyinIndia,c.1952-77”,October14.

§ UniversityofMichigan,Conference:TheMakingof theCambridgeHistoryof theModernIndianSubcontinent,“Health,Disease,andMedicine:BetwixttheBiomoralandtheBiopolitical”,September24.

§ Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Workshop:

TranslatingMedicine in the PremodernWorld, “Cast(e)ing Translation: BrojonathShahaandthePracticesofScientificTranslatabilityinColonialBengal”,September21.

§ Columbia University, Workshop: Global Histories of Science, Medicine, and

Technology,“HistoryofScienceinSouthAsia”,May15.

§ UCLA,Workshop:MedicalEncounters, “MalwaOil:Chemistry,ColonialismandtheContestedMaterialitiesofIndigenousDrugsinBritishIndia”,May10.

§ Colby College, Science, Technology, and Society Series, “Collecting Bodies, Bodily

Collectives:TraceIdentitiesinBritishIndia,1918–47”,March4.

§ UniversityofOregon,BookManuscriptWorkshop:BharatVenkat,AttheLimitsofCure,January18.

2018

§ TheHuntingtonLibrary, Conference:AHistory of theMedical Book, “Written inRed:RedInk,PrintCulture,andTherapeuticMantras”,November16.

§ University of Michigan, Science, Technology, Medicine and Society Colloquium,“Collecting Bodies, Bodily Collectives: Trace Identities in British India, 1918-47”,September17.

§ University of Washington at St. Louis, History Colloquium, “Collecting Bodies,BodilyCollectives:TraceIdentitiesinBritishIndia,1918-47”,September12.

§ MaxPlanck Institute for theHistoryof Science,Berlin,Workshop:TranslatingMedicine,“TranslatingtheWitchinMughalIndia”,August18.

§ Northwestern University, Workshop: Medical Cultures, Properties, and Law in

GlobalPerspective, “SubalternSurgeries:ColonialLaw&RegulationofTraditionalMedicinesinBritishRaj”,June8.

Dec11,2019

19

§ Duke University, Workshop: Asian Health Humanities, “Vernacular Hearts: ACulturalHistoryof‘HeartAttack’inBengal,c.1890-1920”,May19.

§ UniversityofTexasatAustin,SouthAsiaSeminar,“Somatonational:TheNationalBodyanditsFragments,India,c.1920-1966”,May3.

§ Queen’s University, Workshop: Sex in Translation in Post/Colonial India:

Vernacular Archives and Global Itineraries, “Desire and Difference: Locating theSexualinAbulHasanat’sJounaBigyan”,April21.

§ PennProgramonRace, ScienceandSociety,Symposium:Ordering theHuman,

“Musalmani:Genes,SoulsandCongenitalCircumcision”,April12.

§ MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,Berlin,Workshop:Technologiesin Use, “Lord of the Loom: Technocosmology of Handloom Weavers in ColonialBengal”,April6.

§ MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience,Berlin,Workshop:AcousticsofEmpire, “Sounding Reason: Rationalizing the Soundscapes of Victorian Bengal”,March16.

§ Princeton University, Workshop: Descent of Darwin- Race, Sex, and Human

Nature, “Energetic Darwinism, Or How Liminal Men Read for Facts in ColonialIndia”,February9.

§ MaxPlanck Institute forHumanDevelopment, Berlin, South Asia and Beyond

Colloquium, “Energetics of Ancient Oriental Wisdom: Lamas, Mummies, and theTransmodernity of the Electromagnetic Worldview in Early Twentieth CenturyBengal”,January17.

§ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Department IIColloquium, “Kindred Spirits: Parapsychology in India and South Africa, c.1950-1970s”,January10.

2017

§ DrexelUniversity,MedicalHumanitiesGrandRounds:“Akarnan:TheStethoscopeandMakingofModernAyurveda,Bengal,c.1894-1952”,December7.

§ McMaster University, Animal Studies Workshop: “Zebra’s Stripes and Leopard’sSpots:DarwinisminColonialLucknow”,November30.

Dec11,2019

20

§ Tufts University, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies Colloquium,“Hindu Genes, Muslim Souls: Locating the ‘Human’ in Twentieth-Century SouthAsia”,November16.

§ 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.

§ MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,WorkshoponSTSinSouthAsia,“ThereisaGhostintheComputer:ASpectrologyofUncannyRisks”,September2.

§ ETH Zurich, Workshop: Fringe Science and Threadbare Knowledge, “RethinkingColdWarSciencefromtheFringes:ParapsychologyResearchinIndia,c.1958-68”,June22-23.

§ 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.

Dec11,2019

21

§ 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.

§ Drexel University, History Colloquium, “Cat and Mouse: Plague, Vernacular

BiomedicalTechnologiesandPublicHealthfromBelow”,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.

Dec11,2019

22

§ Universities of Manchester & Notre Dame, Locating Forensic Science and

Medicine 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.

§ 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.

Dec11,2019

23

§ 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.

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.

Dec11,2019

24

§ 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§ UniversityCollegeLondon,Locating the ‘Medical’ inHistoriesofNineteenthand

TwentiethCenturyIndiaWorkshop,“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.

Dec11,2019

25

§ 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.

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.

Dec11,2019

26

§ 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

2019

§ Presenter,“TheMagicofBusiness:MarketingParatechnologiesforSmallBusinessesin 20th Century Bengal”, Preconference: Religion at Work: Gods, Goddesses, andOccult Powers in the Lives and Livelihoods of India’s Artisans, Technicians, andManufacturers,AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,October17.

§ Moderator, Session 2: Infrastructures, Machines, Technicities, Preconference:ReligionatWork:Gods,Goddesses,andOccultPowersintheLivesandLivelihoodsof India’sArtisans,Technicians,andManufacturers,AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,Wisconsin,October17.

§ Presenter, “Death by Chemistry: The Chemical Everyday and Colonial Cultures ofPoisoning,BritishIndia,c.1857-1918”,Panel:PoisonandToxicityinModernSouthAsia,AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,Wisconsin,October19.

§ Panelist,Roundtable:TacitKnowledgeEvent:Academic Internationalisms,Annual

MeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety(HSS),Utrecht,Netherlands,July26.

§ Moderator, Panel: Articulations and Disarticulations: Translation, Medicine, andKnowledgeinthePremodernWorld,SessionII,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety(HSS),Utrecht,Netherlands,July25.

§ Presenter, “Spontaneous Innocence: Physiological Knowledge in Medical

Jurisprudence in British India, ca. 1856-1918”, Panel: Frameworks of Innocence,AnnualMeeting of the History of Science Society (HSS), Utrecht, Netherlands,July24.

Dec11,2019

27

§ Presenter, “Translating the ‘Materio-Spiritual’Body:HylozoicMedicine inColonial

India”, Panel: Coming Across: Rethinking Translations in the History ofMedicine,Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine,Columbus,Ohio,April26.

2018

§ Presenter, “Magical Business:Marketing Paratechnologies for Small Businesses in20th C Bengal”, Panel: Markets and Marketing of Consumer Goods in Twentieth-Century India, XVIII World Economic History Congress, Cambridge,Massachusetts,August1.

§ Presenter,“Musalmani:Genes,Souls,andCongenitalCircumcision”,Panel:Heredity,Taxonomy, and Notions of ‘The Gene’ from Ayurveda to AyurGenomics, AAS-in-Asia,NewDelhi,India,July7.

2017

§ Presenter, “Parasciences”, Roundtable: Rethinking Histories of Science andMedicine: Beyond Eurocentrism and Postcolonialism, Annual Meeting of theHistoryofScienceSociety(HSS),Toronto,Canada,November10.

§ Discussant, Presidential Panel: “Theorizing Human Agency and the Self: WhatDoes/CanHistoryofTechnologyContributetotheHumanities?”,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology(SHOT),Philadelphia,October27.

§ Presenter, “Where have all the Neanderthals Gone?: Archaeology, Anthropology,andCryptozoologyinSouthAsia,c.1914-71”,PreconferenceonSTMinSouthAsia:Science, Mystery, and Miracle, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison,Wisconsin,October26.

§ Discussant,Panel:DecolonialSTS:ViewsfromSouthAsia,AnnualMeetingoftheSocietyforSocialStudiesofScience(4S),Boston,Massachusetts,August30.

§ Presenter, “ColdWar Inheritances: TransnationalNetworks, ScientificModernityand ‘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.

Dec11,2019

28

§ Moderator,Panel:UniversalScience,TheScienceof Information,1870-1945:TheUniversalization of Knowledge in a Utopian Age, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,February24.

§ Presenter,“BeyondCentre-Periphery:Hypercolonialism,BraidedSciencesandtheMicrohistory of Physiograms”, Panel: Science In Their OwnWor[l]ds: Histories,OntologiesandKnowledge-MakingfromtheSouth,25thInternationalCongressofHistoryofScienceandTechnology,RiodeJaneiro,Brazil,July23-29.

§ Presenter,“StatesofMeasure:ChemicalQuantification,SubalternMaterialitiesandthe Chemopolitics of Empire in Late Victorian India”, Panel: SubalternTherapeutics and Reasons of State,9th International Congress of TraditionalAsianMedicines,Kiel,Germany,August7.

2016

§ Presenter, “MetaphoricModernity: Railways, Telegraphs and theNewAyurvedicBodyinVictorianBengal”,Panel:Health,Disease,andTechnology,MedicineandModernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, St Anne’s College, University ofOxford,UK,September10.

§ Presenter, “Totka Chikitsa: Between Neo-traditionalism and SubalternTherapeutics”, Indian Medicine: Between State and Village, InternationalInstituteforAsianStudies(IIAS),Leiden,Netherlands,June24.

§ Presenter, “Journals as Actors in the Academic World – Existing and ChangingRoles”,SouthAsianHistoryandCultureRoundtable,Oxford,July1.

§ Presenter, “Between Empire and Nation:War, Competitive Philanthropy and theBirth of Blood-banking in India”, Panel: Sanguinary Cultures: Historical andMaterial Perspectives on the Materiality of Blood”, Annual Meeting of theAmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicine,Minneapolis,MN,April29.

§ Presenter, “Cat and Mouse: Plague and the Contested Construction of a MedicalTechnology”,Panel:BeastlyRaj–Humans,AnimalsandAnimal-KnowledgesintheBritishEmpire,AnnualMeetingoftheAssociationofAsianStudies,Seattle,WA,April2.

§ Presenter, “Post-Western Universalism or a Para-Science: The Case ofAyurgenomics”, Panel: Decoloniality Mini Conference, Eastern SociologicalSociety,Boston,MA,March18.

Dec11,2019

29

§ Presenter,“BraidedScience:TheBiochemicalizationofAyurveda,Bengal,c.1884-1947”, Roundtable: Ayurveda: Post-Western Histories of Science in South Asia”,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,November3.

§ Presenter, “Indian Ink: Document Forgery, Forensic Chemistry, and Dynamic

ArtisanalScienceinIndia,1904-79”,Panel:TheFakeandtheFalse:Science,Law,andTrickery”,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,November3.

§ Presenter,“WhatRot!TheSilkIndustryandtheChemopoliticsofDecay,Bengal,c.

1884-1907”, Panel: From Rural Decay to Rural Reconstruction: VillageDevelopment and Food Security Schemes in India, c. 1880-1950, 45th AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October22.

§ Presenter,“Yakshapuri:ASpectralHistoryofStateVampirism,ClassicalGenetics,

and Serotribality in India, 1920-66”, Pre-conference on Science, Technology andMedicine(STM)inSouthAsia,45thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October20.

2015

§ Presenter, “The Bengali Pharaoh: Race, the Public Life of Anthropometry andVernacularAnthropologyinBengalinthe20thCentury”,Panel:TrustintheRace-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.

§ Presenter, “SoundPolitics:GramophoneRecords and theMakingof thePakistanMovement,c.1920-1947”,Panel:VernacularizingHistoriesofTechnologyinSouthAsia, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology,Albuquerque,NM,October9.

§ Presenter, “Sonic Materiality and the Translation of Western ScientificTerminology into Bengali, c. 1893-1916”, Panel: The Materiality of ScienceTranslationinAsiainthe19thand20thCenturies,14thInternationalConferenceontheHistoryofScienceinEastAsia,Paris,France,July9.

Dec11,2019

30

§ Presenter,“Injections”,Roundtable:VernacularizingMedicine,AnnualMeetingoftheAmericanAssociationoftheHistoryofMedicine,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.

§ Presenter, “Fermenting Vernaculars: Pasteur, Putrefaction and Colonial Agro-Industries”, Panel: Rot – Scientific, Social and Cultural Engagements withPutrefaction, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Chicago, IL,November7.

§ Discussant, Panel: Interrogating Hindutva: Culture and Politics in ContemporaryIndia,43rdAnnualSouthAsiaConference,Madison,WI,October19.

§ Presenter, “LookingBeyondtheMarket:AdvertisementsandtheRewritingof theHistoryofSurgeryinSouthAsia”,Panel:TheConstructionofPopularCulture:PrintAdvertisements as a Historical Source, 43rd Annual South Asia Conference,Madison,WI,October18.

§ Presenter,“BloodSize:RaceandHaematologyinColonialIndia”,Panel:MetricsofRaceAcrossFourContinents,AnnualMeetingof theAmericanAssociation fortheHistoryofMedicine,Chicago,IL,May10.

§ Presenter, “"Nitrogen Gap: Chemical Orientalism after the Second IndustrialRevolution",Panel:NitrogenandFertilizerinGlobalContext”,ChemicalReactions:Chemistry and Global History: The 2014 Cain Conference for the History ofChemistry,ChemicalHeritageFoundation,Philadelphia,PA,April10.

§ Presenter, “Grisly Histories: Parental Cannibalism in the Mangal Kabyas”, Panel:Vernacular Histories, Cosmopolitan Pasts, Association of Asian Studies,Philadelphia,PA,March28.

§ Presenter,“DuncanSaheb’sBibi:TranslocatingtheLocalinHistoriesofMedicine”,AnnualSouthAsiaConference,NewYorkUniversity,NewYork,NY,February15.

Dec11,2019

31

2013

§ Presenter,“GhostsofMemory:AVisualJourneythroughBengaliandHindiFilms”,Panel: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying OtherworldlyAllies, The Penn Ghost Project: A Humanities Symposium and Workshop,Philadelphia,PA,October25.

§ Presenter, “Machinic Forensics: Battling Techno-criminality in Colonial Bengal, c.1890-1940”,SymposiumonForensicHistories:GlobalPerspectives,InternationalCongressfortheHistoryofScience,TechnologyandMedicine,Manchester,UK,July23.

§ Presenter, “Hydrotherapy in India: Colonial, Globalized, Transnational orVernacular?”, American Association for the History of Medicine, Atlanta, GA,May19.

§ Presenter, “Doctoring Misfortune: The Mutuality of Medicine and PortentousPhysiognomy inBengal, c. 11th-19thCE”,Panel: SignsandSimilitude:TowardsaHistory of Physiognomy in SouthAsia,AssociationofAsian Studies, SanDiego,CA,March23.

2012

§ Presenter,“Agrotech,Petrotech,Infotech:TheChangingSociotechnicalImaginariesof Popular Bangladeshi Technostatism, 1966-2010”, Panel: Nation, State andSociotechnicalImaginariesinColdWarAsiaandBeyond,SocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology,Copenhagen,Denmark,October5.

§ Presenter, “The Glamorous State: Masud Rana and Everyday Statism in EastPakistan and Bangladesh”, Panel: ‘Superheroes’ and Statism: Imagining theEveryday State in South Asia, Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada,March15.

2011

§ Discussant, Panel: The Problem of Decline,Workshop on Golden Ages: UniversalHistoriesandtheOriginsofScience,TheHeymanCenterfortheHumanitiesattheColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,NY,December9.

§ Presenter, “Cultures of Fear:Historicizing the Social in order to Save it from theNation”,SocietyfortheHistoryofTechnology,Cleveland,OH,November3-6.

Dec11,2019

32

2010

§ Presenter,“TheBirthofNew‘Gods’:Magic, IslamiyoTontroandtheExpansionoftheSupernaturalUniverseinPost-ColonialWestBengal”,Panel:MiraclesandMagicinSouthAsia,AnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,WI,October14-17.

2009

§ Presenter,“Shirk,ShariaandHinduAppropriation:StructuringAuthorityinMuslimHealingShrinesin20thCenturyWestBengal”,BritishAssociationofSouthAsianStudies,Edinburgh,UK,March-April.

2004

§ Presenter,“ReproductiveHealthasaMetaphorforDifference:FromMoralPoliticsto Racial Sexualities”, Panel: Colonial Medicine, European Association for theSouthAsianStudies,Lund,Sweden,July.

§ Presenter, “Enframing Bangali Ayurbed”, Panel: Bengal Studies, EuropeanAssociationfortheSouthAsianStudies,Lund,Sweden,July.

CONFERENCEANDPANELORGANIZATION

2019

§ Co-organizer,CollaborativePedagogiesintheGlobalHistoryofScience,Workshop,UniversityofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,October11-12,2019.

§ Organizer, Sciences of Difference in South Asia Workshop, University ofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,August19-20,2019.

§ Organizer, Frameworks of Innocence, Panel, Annual Meeting of the History ofScienceSociety(HSS),Utrecht,TheNetherlands,July24,2019.

2017

§ Co-Organizer, “Trans-Global South Conversation on the Concept of ‘Technology’”,Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology(SHOT),Philadelphia,October27,2017.

2016

§ Organizer, Workshop on New Approaches to STEM in South Asia,University ofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,November17,2016.

Dec11,2019

33

§ Organizer,“Ayurveda:Post-WesternHistoriesofScienceinSouthAsia”,Roundtable,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,November3,2016.

§ Co-Organizer, “Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) in South Asia”, Pre-Conference,45thAnnualConferenceonSouthAsia,Madison,October20,2016.

§ Organizer, “Speculative Sciences, Alternative Futures: Experiments in Desi-Futurism”, Roundtable, 45th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI,October22,2016.

§ 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.

2015

§ “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.

2014

§ “Rot:Scientific,SocialandCulturalEngagementswithPutrefaction”,Panel,AnnualMeetingoftheHistoryofScienceSociety,Chicago,November6-9,2014.

2010

§ “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.

2009

§ “HealthandHealingintheTwentiethCentury”,Panel,BritishAssociationofSouthAsianStudiesConference,Edinburgh,UK,March30-April1,2009.

§ Co-organizer,“SituatingtheSubalterninSouthAsianMedicalHistory”,Conference,CentrefortheHistoryofMedicine,UniversityofWarwick,UK,May7-8,2009.

Dec11,2019

34

2008

§ Co-organizer, “Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial andIndigenousMedicines inTransnational Perspective”, Conference,OxfordBrookesUniversity,UK,September16-17,2008.

2006

§ “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

§ Speaker, “Who Do You Think You Are? Modern Identities between Genes andRebirths,Indiac.1950s-1980s”,PennScienceCafé,June12,2018.

§ Participant, Public Forum: Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of BiobankingandtheGeneticArchive,ConsortiumfortheHistoryofScience,TechnologyandMedicine,September28,2017.

§ Speaker, “Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences”, Symposium onMind-Body: Eastern Healing Methods – A Premier, Indo American PsychiatricAssociation/TheAllianceforPsychoanalyticThought/SouthAsianAmericanForum,March26,2017.

§ Speaker, “Biopiracy:From the Jesuit'sBark to theFreeTree”,KingsCourtEnglishCollegeHouse,UniversityofPennsylvania,April19,2016.

§ Speaker, “Colonial Medicine and Science in South Asia”, Community College of

Philadelphia,March26,2016.

Dec11,2019

35

PROFESSIONALSERVICE

§ SeniorFellow,Center forBlack,Brown,andQueerStudies,HarvardUniversity,

Fall2019–present.

§ BookReviewEditor,Isis,2019–present.

§ Editor-in-Chief,HistoryCompass,2018–present.

§ Member,EditorialBoard,BulletinfortheHistoryofMedicine,2018–2021.

§ Member,EditorialBoard,JournalfortheHistoryofKnowledge,2018–present.

§ Member,EditorialBoard,AsianMedicine:JournaloftheInternationalAssociationfortheStudyofTraditionalAsianMedicine,2018-present.

§ Member,AmericanHistoricalAssociation,2019–present.

§ Member, Committee on Meetings and Programs, History of Science Society,

January2017–present.

§ Member, International Scientific Committee, 10th International Congress ofTraditionalAsianMedicines(ICTAMX),InternationalAssociationfortheStudyofTraditionalAsianMedicines(IASTAM),November2019–October2020.

§ Member, International Scientific Committee, 9th International Congress ofTraditionalAsianMedicines(ICTAMIX),InternationalAssociationfortheStudyofTraditionalAsianMedicines(IASTAM),July2016–2017.

§ Member,ProgramCommittee,AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicine,April2016–2017.

§ Co-Director, “Decolonizing Science in Asia”, Penn State Asian Studies SummerInstitute,January–June2016.

§ Institutional Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute of BangladeshStudies,August2013–present.

Dec11,2019

36

§ Co-Organizer, Working Group, “Science Beyond the West”, Philadelphia AreaCenterforHistoryofScience(PACHS),October2014–2017.

§ Member, Prize Committee, Forum for the History of Science in Asia, History ofScienceSociety,2014–2017.

§ AssociateEditor,SouthAsianHistoryandCulture,2014–present.

§ RegionalEditor(Asia),HistoryCompass,2014–2018.

§ 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.

DEPARTMENTSERVICE

§ Director, Health and Societies Major, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2019 –

present.

§ 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.

§ Participant and Interviewer, Job Search, Tenured Position of Associate and/or

FullProfessor,DepartmentofHistoryandSociologyofScience,January2012-April2013.

§ Co-Leader, Workshop on "Teaching the Global", University of Pennsylvania,

Dec11,2019

37

March2012.SCHOOLSERVICE

§ Member,SASWorkingGrouponIndia,Fall2019–present.

§ Faculty advisor, Global Knowledge Lab, The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of

Management & International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2019 –present.

§ Member,Search Committee, Position of Director of the Center for the AdvancedStudyofIndia(CASI),Spring2017.

§ Member, Search Committee, Position of Assistant Professor in Material Religion

(tenure-track),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,Fall2016–Spring2017.

§ Respondent,RahulMukherjee: “Contested Imaginaries:DebatingNuclearMatters”,South Asia FacultyWorks-in-Progress Seminar, South Asia Center, September29,2016.

§ Organizer,Annual STEM in South Asia Lecture Series and Conference, South

AsiaCenter,September2015–2016.

§ Director, Early Career Fellowship on History & AnthropologyofSTEMinSouthAsia,SouthAsiaCenter,January2016.

§ Member, Faculty Planning Group on Diversity, Inequality, and HumanWell-Being, “Our Foundations and Frontiers: A StrategicPlanfor PennArt& Sciences”,September2015–present.

§ Member,IndiaPlanningGroup,GlobalInquiriesinitiative,“OurFoundationsandFrontiers:AStrategicPlanforPennArt&Sciences",August2015–present.

§ Coordinator,SouthAsianStudiesColloquiumSeries,Fall2014-Spring2015.

§ Member, Search Committee, Position of Assistant Professor in Material Religion(tenure-track),DepartmentofReligiousStudies,Fall2014-Spring2015.

Dec11,2019

38

§ Member, Strategic Planning FacultyWorking Group on Society, Science, andHealth,October2013-October2014.

§ Participant,JobSearch,PositionofAssistantProfessor(tenure-track),DepartmentofSouthAsianStudies,February2012.

§ Contributor,The federal reviewofTitleVI funding forSouthAsianStudies andhelpeddraftsuccessfulapplicationforrenewaloffunding.

§ Interviewer, Postdoctoral candidate, Gender, Sexuality and Women's StudiesProgram,UniversityofPennsylvania,February2012.

UNIVERSITYSERVICE

§ Member, Working Group, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society, October

2014–present.§ Organizer, FacultyWorking Group, Science and Embodied Difference in South

Asia: InterdisciplinaryPerspectives,UniversityofPennsylvania,Fall2015–Fall2016.

§ Member, Faculty Working Group, The Penn Ghost Project: A HumanitiesWorkshop,UniversityofPennsylvania,2013-2016.

§ Co-Leader,LunchtimeDiscussionon“ReconcilingTeachingFactsandTeachingCriticality”, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, 18November2014.

§ Contributor, Action PlanforFaculty Diversityand Excellence Meeting,UniversityofPennsylvania,October2011.

§ Co-Leader, Workshop on "Going on the Academic Job Market: Advice fromFacultyMembersintheHumanitiesandSocialSciences",CareerServicesOffice,UniversityofPennsylvania,September2011.

§ Member, Executive Committee, Department of History, McMaster University,Canada,2010-2011.

Dec11,2019

39

§ Member,Ethics Committee, Faculty ofHumanities,McMasterUniversity, Canada,2010-2011.

§ Humanities Representative to Faculty of Health Sciences,Faculty ofHumanities,McMasterUniversity,Canada,2010-2011.

§ Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of History, McMasterUniversity,Canada,2009-2011.

PROFESSIONALASSOCIATIONS

AmericanAssociationfortheHistoryofMedicineAssociationforAsianStudiesAmericanInstituteofBangladeshStudiesAmericanHistoricalAssociationHistoryofScienceSocietySocietyfortheHistoryofTechnologyTEACHINGSERVICE

Associate Professor, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,July2017–present.

Fall2019§ HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine§ HSOC329:CSI:GlobalSpring2019§ HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine§ HSSC697:OtherReasonsSpring2018–Fall2018:Sabbaticalleave

Fall2017• HSOC145:ComparativeMedicine• HSSC518:BotanicEmpire:PlantsandEmpire,c.1750-1950

Spring2017• HSOC436:Biopiracy

Dec11,2019

40

• 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

Fall2012• HSOC107:Science,MedicineandTechnologyinColonialIndia• STS016:IslamicScience

Spring2012• HSSC586:MakingIndiaModern• HSOC347:AsianMedicinesandModernity

Fall2011• STS307:GlobalizationandMedicineinModernIndia• STS107:Science,MedicineandTechnologyinColonialIndia

Dec11,2019

41

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-ModernismandtheWritingofHistoryFall2007• History:TheMakingofModernIndia:IndiaintheTwentiethCentury• History:GandhiandGandhianism• History:PracticingHistory(SubalternStudies)

PostdoctoralFellow,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofSouthampton,UK,September2006-August2007.

Spring2007• History:Normal/Abnormal:AHistoryofSexuality

Dec11,2019

42

• 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.

§ SoniaRajuDavey,MedicineinSouthAsia,IndependentStudy,Spring2013.

§ ChaitanyaB.Jayanti,SocietalPerceptionsofStutteringinIndia,IndependentStudy,Spring2013.

§ BhargaviAmmu,TraditionalMedicine inHyderabad,Capstone IndependentStudy,Fall2012.

Dec11,2019

43

MASTERSTHESISADVISOR

§ 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.

DOCTORALTHESISADVISOR

§ Claire C. Sabel, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,2017—present.

§ ArnavBhattacharya,DepartmentofHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,2017—present.

§ Baishakh Chakrabarti, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2016—present.

§ Allegra Giovine, “Making Money on the Steps of the Buddha: Charting theVernacular Economy in Colonial Burma, circa 1910-1930”, Department ofHistoryandSociologyofScience,UniversityofPennsylvania,2013—2019.

DOCTORALCOMMITTEEMEMBER

§ ThomasOommen, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design,

UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,2019–present.

§ Taylor Dysart, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of

Pennsylvania,2019-present.

§ Kimberly Fernandes, Departments of Education andAnthropology, University of

Pennsylvania,2019-present.

§ AnannyaBohidar,SouthAsianStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania,2017-present.

Dec11,2019

44

§ RovelSequeira,DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofPennsylvania,2017-present.

§ Austin Cooper, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,2017—present.

§ Christopher Fite, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,2017—present.

§ Eram Alam, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University ofPennsylvania,2013—2016.

§ Divya Roy, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of

Pennsylvania,2011—2014.

DOCTORALEXTERNALEXAMINER

§ Sarah Carson, “Ungovernable Winds: The Weather Sciences in South Asia, 1864-1945”,DepartmentofHistory,PrincetonUniversity,August2019.

§ Hilary Buxton, “Disabled Empire: Race, Rehabilitation and the Politics of HealingNon-White Colonial Soldiers, 1914-1940”, Department of History, RutgersUniversity,March2018.

§ 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.

Dec11,2019

45

OTHERPROFESSIONALACTIVITIES

BookManuscriptReview: CambridgeUniversityPress

OxfordUniversityPressStanfordUniversityPressUniversityofChicagoPressIndianaUniversityPressUniversityWashingtonPressPolityPress,UKIBTaurisPearsonLongman,UKRoutledge(SouthAsianStudies)UniversityofAmsterdamPress

JournalManuscriptReview:

AmericanHistoricalReviewAnthropology&MedicineAsianMedicineAsianEthnologyBritishJournaloftheHistoryofScienceBulletinfortheHistoryofMedicineComparativeStudiesinSocietyandHistoryComparativeStudiesinSouthAsia,AfricaandtheMiddleEastContemporarySouthAsiaHistoriaHospitalumHistoryCompassHistoryofScienceHistoryofScienceinSouthAsiaIndianEconomic&SocialHistoryReviewInternationalJournalfortheHistoryofSportJournaloftheHistoryofMedicineandAlliedSciencesMedicalAnthropologyMedicalHistoryMedicineAnthropologyTheoryPresidencyCollegeHistoricalJournalSocialHistoryofMedicineSouthAsianHistoryandCultureStudiesinHistory

Dec11,2019

46

Technology&Culture

ExternalGrantReviews:ArtsandHumanitiesResearchBoard,UnitedKingdomCzechScienceFoundation,CzechRepublic

ETHZurichResearchGrants,SwitzerlandEuropeanResearchCouncil,EuropeanUnionFCT-FoundationforScienceandTechnology,Lisbon,PortugalIndependentSocialResearchFoundation,UnitedKingdomLeverhulmeTrust,UnitedKingdomNetherlandsOrganizationforSocialResearch,Amsterdam,TheNetherlandsShastriIndo-CanadianFoundation,UnitedKingdomWellcomeTrust,UnitedKingdom