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Staff | Department of Asian Studies

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Prof. Ronit Ricci

On sabbatical until October 2022

Prof. Ronit Ricci's research interests include Indonesian history and culture, Javanese and Malay manuscript literatures, Translation Studies, Islamic literary traditions in South and Southeast Asia, and exile and diaspora in colonial Asia.

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She has published articles and essays on these topics. Her book, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia, won the 2012 Harry Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies and the 2013 American Academy of Religion's Best First Book in the History of Religions Award. Her current project is a study of the literary history of the Sri Lankan Malays

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Greg Fealy

Prof. Greg Fealy

Guest Lecturer
Indian and Indonesia Studies

Professor Greg Fealy (Australian National University) specializes in research on Indonesian Islamic politics but also has scholarly interests in radical and liberal Muslim activism in Southeast Asia. 

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Prof. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Associate Prof. of Islam in South Asia

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs is interested in global Islamic connections, in particular between South Asia and the Middle East. His second book, In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi‘ism between Pakistan and the Middle East was published with the University of North Carolina Press in 2019 and received the inaugural book award of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association.

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He is currently working on a global history of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/79 for Princeton University Press.

After obtaining his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 2015, Dr. Fuchs was elected a Junior Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. From 2017 until 2023, he was a lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the German Young Academy.

 

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Dr. Rotem Geva

Dr. Rotem Geva

Head of India & Indonesia Section
Graduate Program Advisor - India & Indonesia Section
Office hours: By Appointment Room 44612

 

I am a historian of South Asia with a focus on twentieth-century India. My research and teaching interests encompass nationalism and state formation, territorial partitions, urban history, colonialism and decolonization. I hold a joint appointment in the Department of Asian Studies and the History Department.

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I earned my PhD from the Department of History at Princeton University and my M.A. in anthropology from the New School for Social Research. My book, Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India’s Capital (Stanford University Press, 2022), was shortlisted for the 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, sponsored by the New India Foundation. It delves into the history of Delhi during the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, examining the city’s transformation under the pressures of the Second World War and the partition of India. Bridging studies of high politics with the ground-level experience of partition, it shows what the politics of the nation-state meant in everyday life. My current project explores citizenship formation in the new republic. It centers on Delhi from decolonization to the suspension of democracy during the Emergency rule (1975-1977) and its restoration afterward. This research explores how different sections of urban society conceptualized, interpreted, and asserted citizenship in the new republic, shaping Indian democracy in the process.

I teach a range of courses, including the survey course “Introduction to Modern India” and seminars on colonialism, urban history, gender and caste, the Gandhian movements, the Cold War in South Asia, and the transnational history of twentieth-century partitions.

 

 

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