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Preeti Chopra

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW) Fellow 2017/18

Professor of Architecture, Urban History and Visual Studies,

Department of Art History

Department of History (faculty affiliate)

Department of Asian Languages & Cultures

(faculty affiliate)

Center for Visual Cultures (core faculty affiliate)

Center for South Asia (faculty affiliate)

Middle East Studies Program (faculty affiliate)

ADDRESS

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Art History

220 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

800 University Avenue

Madison, WI 53706

(608) 265–8694

chopra@wisc.edu

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

Major Field: History of Architecture and Urbanism after 1750: Colonial

Empire, Europe and the United States

Minor Fields: Urban Development and Social Theory; and South Asia

M.C.P., Department of City & Regional Planning, University of California,

Berkeley, 1993

M.L.A., Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California,

Berkeley, 1993

B.Arch. in Architecture, School of Architecture, Centre for Environmental

Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India, 1987

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Architecture, Urban History and Visual Studies, Department of Art

History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015-present

Director, Center for Visual Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

2013-2014

Associate Professor of Architecture, Urban History and Visual Studies,

Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013-

present

Faculty affiliate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012-

present

Associate Professor of Architecture, Urban History and Visual Studies,

Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, and Design Studies

Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010-2013.

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Urban History and Visual Studies,

Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, and Design Studies

Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003-2010

Faculty member, Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures (BLC) Program, UW-Madison

and UW-Milwaukee, 2008-present

Instructor, co-taught with Marie Alice L’Heureux, summer session, Introduction

to Architectural Design, Academic Talent Development Program,

Graduate School of Education, UC-Berkeley, 2002

Teaching Assistant, summer intensive language studies in Hindi, Department of

South and Southeast Asia, UC-Berkeley, 1997

Professional Architectural Practice

Intern, Community Development by Design, Berkeley, 1990

Architect, Stein, Doshi & Bhalla, Architects & Planners, New Delhi, India, 1988-

1989

Architect, Mandala Architects, Ahmedabad, India, 1987

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Interior Designer with Milan Desai, Ahmedabad, India, 1987

Architectural Trainee, Auroservice d’Auroville Trust, Pondicherry, India, 1983

HONORS AND AWARDS

2017-18 Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in

the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam

2017 Center for South Asia Travel Grant

2016 Center for South Asia Research Small Grants

2015 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research Grant

2013 Center for South Asia Travel Grants (from International Institute

Fund)

2013 Alternate, Senior Fellowship 2013-14, Center for Advanced Study

in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art.

2012 Sabbatical Leave Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

spring 2012.

2012 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2011 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2009-2010 Institute for Research in the Humanities, Resident Fellowship,

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Resident fellow in spring 2010

2010 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost’s Office and the

Graduate School, book publication subvention award.

2009 Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, book

publication subvention award, 2009.

2009 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

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2008-2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Middle East Studies Program,

Middle East Studies Course Development Grant

2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research-Service Award.

2008 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2007 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2006 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2005 University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Research

Grant.

2000 Stanley M. Tasheira Scholarship, University of California,

Berkeley.

1999 Taraknath Das Foundation Scholarship, Southern Asian Institute,

Columbia University, New York

1998-99 Stanley M. Tasheira Scholarship, University of California,

Berkeley.

1997-98 Vice-Chancellor for Research Fund fellowship, University of

California, Berkeley.

1997 Humanities Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley.

1993 American Planning History Research Prize.

1991 Farrand Research Grant.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Reviews: Hamazor: publication of the world Zoroastrian

organization, issue 3 (2011): 44-48; E-mail interview, Time out Mumbai,

June 24-July 7 (2011): 12; Times Literary Supplement August 5,

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2011: 27; The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 71, issue 1 (2012): 285-

286; The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 22, issue 1 (January

2012): 195-198; Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of

Business History, volume 13, Number 2 (June 2012): 438-440; Journal of

Colonialism and Colonial History, volume 13, no. 2 (Fall 2012), from

Project MUSE, accessed 8/28/12; South Asia: Journal of South Asian

Studies, volume 35, issue 4 (2012): 896-898; Buildings and Landscapes,

volume 19, issue 2 (fall 2012): 102-104; South Asia Journal for Culture,

vol. 5 & 6 (2011/2012): 161-163; Journal of Urban History 39, 5 (2013):

1003-1011; Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient,

volume 56, issue 3 (2013): 533-536; Interventions: International Journal

of Postcolonial Studies, volume 15, issue 3 (2013): 448-450; Political

Geography 39 (2014): 22-25; Victorian Studies, volume 56, no 2 (Winter

2014): 309-311.

Articles and Chapters

“South & South-East Asia,” in G. A. Bremner ed., Architecture and Urbanism in

the British Empire, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Oxford

History of the British Empire Companion Series, 278-317, plates 15, 16.

[peer-reviewed]

“The Poetics and Politics of Space: Art, Memory and Change in the Indian City,”

Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 2, iss. 1 (2016): 1-27. Special issue

on “Asian Urbanisms and Urbanizations,” edited by Madhuri Desai and

Shuang Shen. [peer reviewed]

“The Colonial Bombay Town Hall: Engaging the Function and Quality of Public

Space, 1811-1918.” In City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a

Global History of Urban Public Space, Architext series, edited by Swati

Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White, 158-176. London: Routledge, 2014.

[peer-reviewed]

Essay entitled "'Where are you from?' Belonging after Partition," published in

English and Urdu in Tanqeed: a magazine of politics and culture, vol. 1,

issue V: Space (August 2013). url to the issue:

http://www.tanqeed.org/section/issue-5-space/ ;

url to essay: http://www.tanqeed.org/2013/08/journeys-to-ancestral-

homelands-in-pakistan-and-india/ ;

Urdu translation: http://www.tanqeed.org/2013/08/journeys-to-ancestral-

homeands-in-pakistan-and-india-urdu/

“Free to move, forced to flee: the formation and dissolution of suburbs in colonial

Bombay, 1750-1918,” Urban History, volume 39, issue 1 (2012): 83-107.

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“From part to the whole.” In Poppo Pingel, Auroville Architects Monograph

Series, by Mona Doctor-Pingel, 165-168. Ahmedabad: Mapin, 2012.

“A Joint Enterprise: The Creation of a New Landscape (1839-1918),” Mumbai

Reader ’10. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2011, 320-347.

Translated into Marathi (one of 25 articles selected from English Mumbai

Readers 09, 10, & 13 for translation): “Ekā saṃyukta briṭīś bāṃberūpī

navin bhūmikā (1839-1918),” Mumbai Reader 14 (Marathi). Mumbai:

Urban Design Research Institute, 2014, 298-330.

“Mumbai,” Encyclopedia of the Modern World (post-1750), vol. 5, edited by

Peter N. Stearns, 295-296. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Refiguring the Colonial City: Recovering the Role of Local Inhabitants in the

Construction of Colonial Bombay,” Buildings and Landscapes 14 (Fall

2007): 109-125.

“Imagining the City: The Naming of Colonial Bombay’s City Divisions, 1800-

1918.” In the Mumbai Reader for the International Architecture Exhibition

for la Biennale di Venezia 2006, 70-85. Mumbai: Urban Design Research

Institute, 2006, 70-85. Originally published in Christian Topalov, ed.,

Divisions de la ville (Paris: Editions UNESCO: Editions de la Maison des

sciences de l’hommes, 2002).

Translated into Hindi by J.K. Nirmal (one of 22 articles from the English

Mumbai Readers of 2006, 2007 that were translated into Hindi for this

edition): “Śahar kī kalpanā karnā: Aupaniveśak - Bāṃbe ke nagar

prabhāgōṃ kā nāmakaraṇ,” Mumbai Reader 06 (Hindi). Mumbai: Urban

Design Research Institute, 2006, 76-101.

Translated into Marathi by S.N. Nibandhe: “Śaharācī kalpanā: Vasāhatkālīn

Muṃbaī śaharācyā vibhāgāṃce nāmakaraṇ,” Mumbai Reader 06

(Marathi). Mumbai Urban Design Research Institute, 2006, 74-98.

“La Ville Imaginée: Nommer Les Divisions De Bombay Coloniale (1800-1918).”

In Divisions de la ville, edited by Christian Topalov, 125-156. Paris:

Editions UNESCO: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’hommes

(collection “Les Mots de la ville”), 2002.

“Pondicherry: A French Enclave in India.” In Forms of Dominance: On the

Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise, edited by Nezar

AlSayyad, 107-137. Aldershot: Avebury/Gower House, 1992.

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Book Reviews

Nelson, Louis P. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica. New Haven: Yale

University Press, 2016 for caa.reviews, the online review portal for the

College Art Association, in press

Woods, Mary N. Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai

and Delhi. London: Routledge, 2017, for the Journal of the Society of

Architectural Historians, under review

“Excavate Where I Stand”: Whispers from the Lost Worlds of Shanghai’s

Alleyway Homes, “review essay of Jie Li, Shanghai homes: palimpsests of

private life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. H-Asia, H-Net

Reviews. April 2016. URL: http://www.h-

net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43306

“Development Urbanism, International Expertise, and Solutions to the Crises of

India’s Urban Transition,” review essay of Henrik Valeur, India: The

Urban Transition – A Case Study of Development. Copenhagen:

Arkitektur B, 2014. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. December, 2015. URL:

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43305

Rao, Nikhil. House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs,

1898-1964. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Journal

of the Society of Architectural Historians, 74: 4 (December 2015): 508-

509.

João Sarmento, Fortifications, Post-colonialism and Power: Ruins and Imperial

Legacies. Series: Heritage, Culture and Identity. Farnham, Surrey:

Ashgate, 2011. The Luso-Brazilian Review 50: 1(June 2013): 253-256.

Fringes of Empire: Peoples, Places, & Spaces in Colonial India, edited by

Sameetah Agha and Elizabeth Kolsky, with a foreword by Nicholas B.

Dirks. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. Victorian Studies,

Autumn 2013 (55.1): 125-127.

“Elites, Labor, and Violence in the ‘Shock City’ of Ahmedabad,” review essay of

Howard Spodek, Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews.

March, 2013. URL:https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38024

Zeynep Çelik, Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters,

1830-1914. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. Buildings and

Landscapes. Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular

Architecture Forum, 19:1 (Spring 2012): 122-124.

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Banmali Tandan, The Architecture of Lucknow and Oudh, 1722-1856: Its

Evolution in an Aesthetic and Social Context. Cambridge: Zophorus

Books Limited, 2008. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,

17: 4 (December 2011): 544-545.

Finbarr B. Flood, Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-

Muslim” Encounter. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,

2009. Contemporary South Asia, 18: 3 (2010): 346-347.

Colonial Modernities: Building, dwelling and architecture in British India and

Ceylon, edited by Peter Scriver and Vikramaditya Prakash. London:

Routledge, 2007. And Swati Chattopadhyay, Representing Calcutta:

Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny. London: Routledge,

2006. Contemporary South Asia, 17:4 (2009): 462-463.

Visualizing Space in Banaras: Images, Maps, and the Practice of Representation,

edited by Martin Gaenszle and Jörg Gengnagel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz

Verlag, 2006. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft

(ZDMG) 159:1 (2009): 254-258.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Books

The City and Its Fragments: Multiple Publics and the Everyday in Bombay. Book

manuscript in preparation (Anticipated date of completion of first draft:

Fall 2018)

The Intimate City: Everyday Spaces and Lives in Postcolonial Delhi. New project

that will result in a book (Anticipated date of completion of draft of

manuscript: Fall 2023)

Articles/Book chapters

“Making Room for a Statue: Spatial Politics, Networks, and Bombay’s Town

Hall,” K. R. Cama Oriental Institute Centenary Volume (final draft due: 10

November 2017)

Chapter entitled, “Worthy Objects of Charity: The Colonial Government,

Communities, and Charitable Institutions in Bombay,” for Rachel Dwyer,

Manjiri Kamat, and Prashant Kidambi edited volume on Bombay/Mumbai

to be published by Hurst UK in association with Popular Prakashan (India)

and OUP, New York subject to two positive peer reviews and Delegate

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approval (first draft submitted 1 December 2016; revised draft submitted 3

October 2017, under review)

Chapter entitled, “One Style Fits All: Religious Communities and the Indian

Gothic in Western India,” and introduction to one section for Suman

Ghosh, William Hughes, and Catherine Robinson edited volume on Indian

Gothic (abstract and bio submitted: 9/30/16; bibliography submitted:

5/5/17; editors in discussion with publishers)

PRESENTATIONS

Juried Conference Papers

“Worthy Objects of Charity: The Government, Communities, & Charitable

Institutions in Colonial Bombay,” Power, Public Culture and Identity:

Towards New Histories of Mumbai, International Conference at the

University of Mumbai, Kalina Campus, Mumbai, India, 6-7 January 2017.

“Looking at Bucholz and Ward’s portrayal of London,” Book Discussion –

Robert O. Bucholz & Joseph Ward, London: A Social & Cultural History,

1550-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 8th Biennial

Urban History Association Conference, Chicago, October 2016.

“The Enchantments of Bombay Islam,” Association for Asian Studies Conference,

Philadelphia, PA, March 2014.

“The Plague Years of Colonial Bombay: Utopian Programs and Impulses in a

Dystopian City,” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of

Wisconsin-Madison, October 2013.

“Movement and the Making and Unmaking of Suburbs in Colonial Bombay,”

International Planning History Society (IPHS), Istanbul, Turkey, July

2010.

“The Public-ness of Colonial Bombay’s Town Hall in the Nineteenth Century,”

International Planning History Society (IPHS), Istanbul, Turkey, July

2010.

“The Maintenance of Distance: Judging Victorian Bombay’s Anglo-Indian

Architecture,” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)

in association with the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)

Annual Meeting, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, July 2009.

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“Free to Move, Forced to Flee: The formation and dissolution of suburbs in

Colonial Bombay,” The Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena,

April, 2009.

“Decoding Victorian Bombay: The Construction of Meaning by the City’s Local

Inhabitants,” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA),

Yale University, New Haven, November 2008.

“The Contested Spaces of Bombay: New Imagined Communities in a Postcolonial

Nation,” Nation, City, Place: Rethinking Nationalism International

Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 2006.

“A Space for Every Worthy: Colonial Bombay’s Public Landscape,” Association

of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.

“Refiguring the Colonial City: Recovering the Role of Local Inhabitants in the

Construction of Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918,” 25th Vernacular

Architecture Forum, Tucson, Arizona, April 2005.

“Of Gods and Mortal Heroes: The Contradictions of a Secular Public Landscape

in Colonial Bombay,” Society of Architectural Historians, Denver, CO,

April 2003.

“A Joint Enterprise: The Building and Conservation of Colonial Bombay,” for

panel “South Asia or Transnational Studies,” College Art Association,

Philadelphia, PA, February 20-23, 2002.

“Race, Class, Community: Philanthropy and the Division of the Public Realm in

Colonial Bombay,” 30th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI,

October 19-21, 2001.

“Tracing the Governor’s Footsteps: The Imperial Marking and Naming of the

Landscape of Western India,” for panel “Imperialism and the Countryside

in the Pre-Modern Period,” Society of Architectural Historians, Toronto,

Canada, April 18-22, 2001.

Panels Chaired

Chair, panel entitled, “Early Modern Knowledge Systems: Religion, Science, &

Medicine,” for conference entitled “Global Reformations: Religion and

the Making of the Modern World,” Center for the Humanities, University

of Wisconsin-Madison, 6-7 May 2016.

Chair, panel entitled, “In Circulation: Part One,” Annual Conference on South

Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 23 October 2015.

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Chair, panel entitled, "Identity and the Built Environment in Colonial South

Asia,” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-

Madison, October 2012.

Chair, panel entitled, “Contested Identities, Contested Space: Conflict and

Compromise in South Asia and the Diaspora,” at the 30th Annual

Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI, October 19-21, 2001.

Invited Lectures

“Making Room for a Statue: Spatial Politics & Bombay’s Town Hall,” K. R.

Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, India, 4 January 2017.

Guest Lecturer on “Colonial Cities,” AH 205: Global Arts, Course Instructor

Quitman Eugene Phillips, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 19 October

2016.

Guest Lecturer on “Colonial Cities,” AH 205: Global Arts, Course Instructor

Quitman Eugene Phillips, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1 December

2015.

“This is Not a Town Hall,” Yale MacMillan Center and South Asian Studies

Council, Yale University, New Haven, 5 March 2015.

“Bombay: A City’s Many Histories,” Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New

Delhi, India, Public Lecture Series 2014 “Cities in History,” 23 July 2014.

“Considering the Colonial City in South Asia Again: Challenges and Prospects,”

Center for South Asia and Middle East Studies, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign, 16 April 2013.

“Many Publics, One City: Colonial Bombay’s Town Hall,” Departmental

Colloquium, Department of Art History, UW-Madison, 29 November

2012.

“‘I should like to take that subject to pieces’: Pasts, Presents, and Futures of the

Contemporary South Asian City,” Speaker for Plenary Address “Cities in

Crisis,” South Asia Annual Conference, Madison, WI, 22 October 2011.

“Macaulay’s Man and Engineering Colonial Bombay,” Center for South Asian

Studies Winter 2010 Speaker Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

19 March 2010.

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“The Native Intermediary and the Engineering of Colonial Bombay,” Center for

South Asia Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 15

October 2009.

Presentation of Research, Design Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin,

Madison, WI, 12 December 2007.

“Dividing Practices: Race, Religion, Class and Community in Colonial Bombay,”

“Islam, Religion and Visual Culture: A Research Colloquium,” Visual

Culture Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, November 2007.

Lecture on research and teaching interests and use of the resources of libraries,

“Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources Series,”

sponsored by the UW-Madison Libraries/ASHIND (Area Studies, Social

Sciences, and Humanities Interdisciplinary) Group, 30 November 2007.

“Partial Perspectives: Reading and Writing the City at Different Scales,” History

Department Visual Culture Colloquium series. Co-sponsored by the

Department of Geography, the Urban Studies Program, and the

Colonialisms Workshop at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University

of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 11 March 2005.

“Locking up the Gods, Bringing out the Heroes: History, Preservation, and

Memory in Colonial Bombay” at the Visual Culture Faculty Colloquium

on “Places of Memory,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, 11 February

2005.

Guest Lecturer on “Creating, Playing with, and Subverting Stereotypes,” ETD

623: Interior Design IV, Course Instructor Mark Nelson, University of

Wisconsin, Madison, 4 October 2004.

“Rhetoric and Practice of Visual Culture in Medieval South Asia,” for week two

theme “Demythologizing Ancient and Early Medieval India: The Advent

of Islam” at the NEH Summer Institute on “Religion and Politics in India:

Culture, History and the Contemporary Experience,” University of

Hawaii, Honolulu, 2004.

“City as Text: Partial Readings at Different Scales,” for panel “Social Texts,” at

the interdisciplinary symposium “Reading: Ethics, Images, and Social

Practices,” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

8-9 November 2003.

Introduction and Presentation of Work, Visual Culture Faculty Research

Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 26 September 2003.

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“Images of a Fragmented City: Colonial and Postcolonial Bombay,” public

lecture for Visual Culture Cluster, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 31

March 2003.

Presentation on Visual Cultures, Visual Cultures Colloquium, University of

Wisconsin, Madison, 31 March 2003.

“Memory, History, and the Politics of Identity: Contesting Space in Urban

Bombay,” public lecture, Department of Architecture, Cal Poly

University, San Luis Obispo, 17 March California. 2003.

Discussant

Panel entitled, “In Circulation: Part One,” Annual Conference on South Asia,

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 23 October 2015.

Workshop “City/Nation/State: Historians on Twentieth Century Urbanisms,”

East Asian Connections: The Transnational Humanities at the UW-

Madison and Beyond. Sponsored by the Department of History, CEAS,

Harvey Goldberg Center, L&S Anonymous Fund, IRH, CH, 17 April

2015.

Panel entitled “Framing South Asian Cultural Heritage: views of/from Sri Lanka,”

Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

October 2014.

Panel entitled "Identity and the Built Environment in Colonial South Asia,”

Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

October 2012.

"‘Early Modernity’ in Sri Lanka, South Asia, and Southeast Asia,” pre-conference

to the 24th South Asia Annual Conference, sponsored by the American

Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 22

October 2009.

"South Asia Seen From the East: Lessons and Questions from Lansing’s ‘Perfect

Order’,” pre-conference to the 23rd South Asia Annual Conference,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2008.

Invited Participant

Invited Participant, “Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities.”

Sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center

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for the Humanities and co-sponsored by UW-Press, University of

Wisconsin, Madison, 14 November 2013.

UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee Workshop, Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures

(BLC) Program, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 23-24 May 2008.

NEH Summer Institute on “Religion and Politics in India: Culture, History and

the Contemporary Experience,” University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 18 June

2004.

Events Organized

Organizer, visit of Madhuri Shrikant Desai, Associate Professor, Art History and

Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University. Title of Desai’s lecture:

“Visions of Order & Antiquity: Palimpsests and Invention in Banaras,”

Center for South Asia, 2017 Spring Lecture Series, 26 January 2017.

Organizer, visit of Aparna Kapadia, Assistant Professor of History, Williams

College, MA. Title of Kapadia’s lecture: “Re-inventing the region, re-

inventing the self: Jhaverchand Meghani’s (1897-1947) writing on

Saurashtra, Western India,” Center for South Asia, 2016 Spring Lecture

Series, 25 February 2016.

Planned and organized, the Center for Visual Cultures year-long lecture series on

“Global Affect, Materiality, and the Senses,” 2013-2014.

Lead organizer, visit of Dianne Harris, Professor of Landscape Architecture,

Architecture, Art History, and History and Director of the Illinois Program

for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign. Title of Harris’s public lecture: "Displaying Race: Material

Culture, White Identities, and the Postwar House." Harris also participated

in a Mellon Workshop. Visual Culture Center, University of Wisconsin,

Madison, 28 March 2011.

Lead organizer with Charles Hallisey and Kenneth George of “Islam, Religion

and Visual Culture: A Research Colloquium,” Visual Culture Center,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 9 November 2007.

Organizer, chair and moderator for panel Space 1: Spatial, Architectural, and

Performative Transfigurations,” at the Trans: Visual Culture Conference,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 17-22 October 2006.

Organizer, chair and moderator for panel “Space 2: Transitional Spaces, Trans-it

Systems and Transit Zones,” at the Trans: Visual Culture Conference,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 17-22 October 2006.

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Selected Participant

OpEd Project Workshop, Conference on South Asia, Madison, 23 October 2016.

“Understanding Persecution,” Faculty Development Seminar conducted by Ivan

Ermakoff (Department of Sociology and Affiliate, Department of History,

Center for Jewish Studies, Center for European Studies), fall 2015,

sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Institute for Research in the

Humanities, and College of Letters & Science.

OpEd Project Workshop, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin,

Madison, 16-17 December 2014.

“Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History,” Faculty Development Seminar

organized by Ronald Radano, spring 2013, sponsored by the Center for the

Humanities, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the College

of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“Representing Culture in an Age of Networks,” Faculty Development Seminar

organized by Lew Friedland and Caroline Levine, fall 2009, sponsored by

the Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Research in the

Humanities, and the College of Letters and Science, University of

Wisconsin, Madison.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate

“Cities of Asia” (lecture)

“Visual Cultures of South Asia” (lecture)

Graduate Seminars

“Mapping, Making, and Representing Colonial Spaces” (for graduate

students, also open to undergraduate students)

“Modern South Asia: Spatial and Visual Cultures and Histories”

(for graduate students, also open to undergraduate students)

“Taste” (for graduate students, open also to undergraduate students)

“The Everyday: Lives, Spaces, and Things”

“Introduction to the Theories, Methods, and Historiography of the Study

of Visual Cultures”

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GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES

Dissertation Committees (Current)

External Examiner for Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Architecture, Building and

Planning, University of Melbourne (report due in November 2017)

Seung-youp Lee, Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee (committee member; proposal defense: scheduled for

November 2017)

Nkoyo Edoho-Eket, “The Mortal Divine: Reimagining Shakti in South

Asian Visual Culture,” Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia

(committee member; proposal defense: 5/8/17)

Lindsay Wells, “Plant-Based Art: Indoor Gardening & the British

Aesthetic Movement, 1860-1900,” Department of Art History (committee

member; proposal defense: 8/24/17)

Preliminary Exam Committee

Seung-youp Lee, preliminary exam area: Visual Culture, Department of

Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (prelim defense:

5/19/17)

Lindsay Wells, preliminary exam area: Visual Culture, Department of Art

History (prelim defense: 5/4/17)

Nkoyo Edoho-Eket, preliminary exam area: Visual Cultures of South

Asia, Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia (prelim defense:

5/12/16)

Christy Wahl, preliminary exam area: Postcolonialism & Cultural Theory

& the ‘Everyday,’ Department of Art History (prelim defense: 8/25/15)

Dissertation Committees (Past)

H. William Warner, “Mobility and Muscle: Afghan Migration and the

Frontiers of British India, c. 1800 – 1947,” Department of History

(committee member; defense: 4/25/17)

Nicholas J. Abbott, “Household, Family, and State: Negotiating

Sovereignty and Sarkar in the Awadh nawabi, ca. 1775-1840,”

Department of History (committee member; defense: 9/23/16)

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Melanie Saeck, “Surrogacy Acts: Queer Crossings in Modern Trans-

Atlantic Portraiture,” Department of Art History (committee member;

defense: 5/9/16; proposal defense: 11/16/12)

Matthew Francis Rarey, “Revolting Visions: Converting Aesthetics in

Brazil’s Era of Slave Rebellion,” Department of Art History (committee

member, defense: 4/30/14; proposal defense: 4/26/11).

Jennifer Moore, "The Logo as Design Motif and Marketing Concept: A

Case Study of Handbags and Hand Luggage," Design Studies Department

(committee member, defense: 4/16/12; Ph. D. Exam Committee: 8/20/10).

Diane Viegut Al Shihabi, “American Beaux-Arts and French Academic

Architectural Theory: A Material Culture Approach to State Capitol

Interiors and Decorative Arts of the Gilded Age,” Design Studies

Department (defense 6/4/12, committee member; Ph. D. Exam committee:

8/20/10).

Marsely L. Kehoe, “Dutching at Home and Abroad: Dutch Trade and

Manufacture of Foreign Materials and Landscapes in the Golden Age,”

Department of Art History (defense 4/27/12, committee member).

Heather Sonntag, “Genesis of the Turkestan Album 1871-1872: The Role

of the Russian Military Photography, Mapping, Albums & Exhibitions in

Central Asia,” Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia (defense

4/28/11, committee member).

Jordi Falgàs Casanovas, “Modernity and Tradition in Catalan

Noucentisme: Rafael Masó’s Regionalist Architecture, 1911-17,”

Department of Art History (defense 3/2/11, committee member).

Jessica Dekuiper, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

(committee member spring 2011, dropped from the program fall 2011).

Derya Iner, “An Analysis of Halide Edib Adivar’s Views on the Central

Issues of the Second Constitutional Era (1908-1918(19):

Constitutionalism, Status of Women, Education, Minorities and

Nationalism,” Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia (defense

10/15/10, committee member).

Julie Vogt, “Woman to Woman: Ann Corio and the Rehabilitation of

American Burlesque,” Department of Theatre & Drama (defense 8/23/10,

committee member).

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Reece Jones, “Borders, boundaries, and identities: Narrating and enacting

difference in India and Bangladesh,” Department of Geography (defense

4/30/08, committee member).

Jennifer Geigel, “The Public’s Art: Participatory Gestures and

Contemporary Practice,” Department of Environment, Textiles and

Design, special degree: Visual Culture (defense 4/23/07, committee

member).

Andrew Robert Williams, "World War II-Themes Video Games and the

Evolution of War in Public Memory," Design Studies Department

(committee member, fall 2007-fall 2010).

Robert A. Simpkins, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

(2005, Ph.D. exam committee).

MA Thesis Committees (Past)

Robert A. Brito, “Suburban Development & Urban Infrastructure in

Havana, Cuba, 1865-1926,” Latin American, Caribbean, & Iberian Studies

(LACIS) (committee member; defense: 5/9/17)

Lu Liu, “Socialist Home, Cold War Domesticity: Mass Housing in the

1950s People’s Republic of China,” and “‘Everyday Family Mobilized,

Everyone Taking Action’: The Four Pests Campaign and the Making of

Enemies in Maoist China,” Department of East Asian Languages &

Literature (committee member; thesis deposited in October 2015)

Erin Bonuso, “Talk Among Neighbors: The Corps of Discovery at Fort

Mandan, October 1804-April 1805,” Department of History (committee

member; thesis deposited in September 2011)

Elizabeth Lhost, “Citation, Circulation, and Agitation in late colonial

India: Publicizing politics in print, 1897-1914,” Department of Languages

& Cultures of Asia (defense 8/4/09, committee member).

Bayram Rahimguliyev, “Fate of First Turkmen Novel: From Bloody Paw

to The Fate,” Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia (defense

6/5/09, committee member).

Mary Wasilewski, “The Polish Religious Landscape of Portage and

Marathon Counties, Wisconsin,” Department of Landscape Architecture

(defense 1/10/08, committee member).

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Rae Erin Dachille, “Learning to See MOR[e]: Modes of Representation in

One Seventeenth Century Tibetan Medical Painting,” Department of

Languages & Cultures of Asia (defense 5/15/07, committee member).

Payal Ramji, “The Negotiation of Identities for Asians in Tanzania,”

Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia (defense 4/25/07, committee

member).

Larisa Shapiro, “Catherine the Great’s Audacious Rebel Spirit as

Translated in the Grotesque of the Acquired Raphael’s Loggias,”

Department of Environment, Textiles & Design (defense 11/27/06,

committee member).

Andrew Robert Williams, “A Need of the Time: Vedic City and the

American Search for Spirituality,” Department of Environment, Textiles

& Design (defense 11/11/05, committee member).

Jane Menon, “Contesting Public Space and Dalit Identity: Visual Politics

in North India,” Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia (defense

5/7/04, committee member).

First Year Ph.D. Student Portfolio Review, Department of Art History

Marie Agathe-Simonetti, 2016-2017

Lindsay Wells, 2015-2016

SERVICE

Service to the University

Chazen Handbook: Assisted in choosing highlights of South and Southeast

Asia art works in the Chazen Collection for the Chazen Handbook, spring

2016

Individual Major Review Committee for Individual Major Proposal, L & S

Undergraduate Deans’ Services, fall 2016

Member, Center for South Asia Studies Conference Committee, 2016-

2017

Member, Center for South Asia, FLAS Review Committee, 2016-2017

(for 2017-2018)

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Tenure Oversight Committee for Jung-hye Shin, Design Studies, School of

Human Ecology, 2013-2015

Invited Participant, Manuscript Review Workshop for Assistant Professor

Emily Calacci’s manuscript “Ujamaa Urbanists: History, Urban Culture,

and the Politics of Authenticity in Socialist Tanzania,” Mellon Foundation

“First Book” program, Center for the Humanities, September 2014

Director, Center for Visual Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

2013-2014

Invited Participant, “Workshop on Publication Strategies in the

Humanities.” Sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities

and the Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by UW-Press,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 14 November 2013.

Resident Fellowships Committee, Institute for Research in the Humanities

(Member) 2012-2013

Public Humanities Advisory Group, Center for the Humanities, 2011-

present

Invited Participant, Manuscript Review Workshop for Assistant Professor

Mitra Sharafi’s manuscript “Parsi Legal Culture in British India,” Mellon

Foundation “First Book” program, Center for the Humanities, May 2011

Member, Steering Committee, Center for Visual Cultures, 2009-2012

Member, Steering Committee, Visual Culture Studies Research Cluster,

2003–2009

Member, Programming Committee, Visual Culture Studies Research

Cluster, 2003-2009

Member, Curriculum Committee, Visual Culture Studies Research Cluster

2003–2009

Member, Search Committee for 3rd Visual Culture Cluster Replacement

Hire, 2007-2008.

Member, Center for South Asia Advisory Board, 2010-2011

Member, Center for South Asia Studies Conference Committee, 2004-

2010

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Faculty member, Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures (BLC) Program, UW-

Madison and UW-Milwaukee, 2008-present

Service to the Department of Art History

Chair, Mentoring Committee for Yuhang Li, 2016-2017

Faculty Senate, 2016-2017

Chair, Grievance Committee, 2014-2017

Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 2015-2016

Faculty Senate, alternate, 2015-2016

Instructional Technology & Space Management Committee, 2014-2015

Faculty Diversity Liaison, 2014-2015

Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 2013-2014

Mentoring Committee for Yuhang Li, 2013-2016

Grievance Committee, 2013-2014

Global Contemporary Position Advisory Committee, fall 2013

Service to the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

Committee for Faculty Administration, Department of Languages &

Cultures of Asia, 2012-2013

Budget Committee, Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, 2012-

2013

Executive Committee, Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia,

2010-2013

Academic Programs Committee, Department of Languages &

Cultures of Asia, 2005-2012

Admission & Fellowship Committee, Department of Languages &

Cultures of Asia, 2005-2013

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Department Representative to University Senate, 2005–2008

Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Languages & Cultures

of Asia, 2003-2005

Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, (“Minute Taker”) 2004-

2005

Timetable Committee, Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia,

2003-2004

Lectures Committee, Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, 2003-

2004

Service to Design Studies Department

Tenure Oversight Committee for Jung-hye Shin, 2010-2013

Visual Culture Cluster Advisory Committee, (Department Representative)

2007-2012

Service to the Profession

Editorial Board, Writing Postcolonialism Series of the Institute of

Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, Australia, University of Hawai’i Press

Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Archipedia Advisory

Committee, 2012-present

2011-2012 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award Committee (Chair),

Society of Architectural Historians

Selection Committee, Open Sessions, and Chair for panel “Colonial and

Postcolonial Passages,” 64th Annual Meeting of the Society of

Architectural Historians, New Orleans, LA, April 2011.

REVIEWER

I have served as an anonymous reviewer for:

American Ethnologist

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Environment and Planning A

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The Journal of Asian Studies

The International Journal of Islamic Architecture

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Modern Asian Studies

Postcolonial Studies

South Asianist

Urban History

Anthem Press

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Bloomsbury Publishing

Routledge Press

University of Hawaii Press

Cambridge University Press India

Hong Kong University Press

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)

College Art Association (CAA)

LANGUAGES

Hindi (native speaker)

Punjabi (aural comprehension)

Gujarati (some reading and aural comprehension)

English (native speaker)

REFEREES

Swati Chattopadhyay

Professor and Chair

History of Art and Architecture

1234 Arts

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Ph: (805) 893-8060

Fax: (805) 893-7117

E-mail: swati@arthistory.ucsb.edu

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William Glover

Associate Professor of History and Architecture

Department of History and A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture

and Urban Planning

The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069

Ph: (734) 936-0203 (office)

Fax: (734) 763-2322

E-mail: wglover@umich.edu

Charles Hallisey

Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures

Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

Andover 308

45 Francis Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

Ph: (617) 384-7872

E-mail: challisey@hds.harvard.edu

Thomas R. Metcalf

Professor Emeritus

Department of History

University of California, Berkeley

E-mail: tmetcalf@berkeley.edu