Department of History
204 Hellems, 234 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: Hellems 225
IAFS 4500: Post-Cold War South Asia
IAFS 1000: Global Issues and International Affairs (Fall 2006)
HIST 6020: Modern Empires (Fall 2006)
HIST 3133: Britain and the Empire (Spring 2006)
HIST 4538: History of Modern India (Spring 2004)
HIST 4053: Britain and the British Empire (Fall 2003)
Imperial Defeat:
Britain's Withdrawal from South Asia and Palestine (working title)
Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab (forthcoming, Manchester UP)
“The Debate over Partition as an Attempt to End Violence in South Asia and the Palestine Mandate,” in Order, Conflict, and Violence, ed. Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2008): 75-96
“Boundary Commissions as Tools to Safeguard British Interests at the End of Empire,” Journal of Historical Geography 34:3 (July 2008) 494-515
“Imperial Cartography in the End of Empire: Map Use During the 1947 Partition of South Asia,” in La cartografia europea tra primo Rinascimento e fine dell'Illuminismo, eds. D.R. Curto, A. Cattaneo, and A.F. Almeida (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2003)
“The 1947 Partition: Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary," American Diplomacy 7:1 (Feb 2002)
“The Mapping of Empire: French and British Cartographies of India in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Portuguese Studies 16 (October 2000)
“Mapping Imperial Expansion: Colonial Cartography in North America and South Asia,” The Portolan 45 (Fall 1999)
“‘Nothing
to Fear:’ Links between Nationalists in South Asia and Palestine,” British
Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin (Invited
presentation) (Feb 2008)
“Policymakers
and Nationalists: Biography and Empire in India and Palestine,” Decolonization
Roundtable, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,
Washington, DC (Jan 2008)
“‘The
Caliphate Bogey:’ Pan-Islamic Identities in South Asia and the
Palestine Mandate,” Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute
of Historical Research, London, UK (Jul 2007)
“‘Little Commissions Set up Lesser Commissions:’ Comparing the Role of Boundary Commissions in British India and the Palestine Mandate,” International Boundaries Research Unit conference, Durham, UK (April 2006)
“Indian Opinion and British Bayonets in the End of the Palestine Mandate,” Humboldt Foundation Conference on Power and Principle, St. John’s College, Cambridge University (May 2005)
“(Not) Resolving Religious Conflict in South Asia and the Middle East: British Attempts to Impose Order,” International Conference on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University, New Haven, CT (April-May 2004)
“Competing Cartographies: Indian and Pakistani Maps of Kashmir,” International Conference on the History of Cartography, Portland, ME (June 2003)
“Mass Violence and the Indo-Pakistani Boundary in the 1947 Partition of Punjab,” Sawyer Seminar on Mass Violence and Genocide, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (December 2002)
“Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary,” International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (October 2002)
“The Radcliffe Commission: Cartography, Carnage, and the Roots of Indo-Pakistani Conflict” at Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC (Invited presentation) (January 2002)
“Imperial Cartography in the End of Empire” at conference on “The Making of European Cartography,” Florence, Italy (Invited presentation) (December 2001)
Outreach
A Brief History of Darfur (STAND, Midwest Regional Conference, Jan 2007)