Lisa N. Trivedi

Employment

Education

• Ph.D., History, University of California, Davis, 1999
• M.A., History, University of Chicago, 1992
• B.A., History and Political Science, Hampshire College, 1990

Dissertation

Publications and Papers in Progress

• "A Nationalist Public in the Colonial World: swadeshi goods and official space in Nationalist India," in Dane Kennedy and Durba Ghosh (eds.) How Empire Matters: Imperial Structures and Globalization in the Era of British Imperialism. Contract under review.
  
• "A Question of Trust: The League of Nations, India, and Mohandas Gandhi," with Kevin Grant, in R. M. Douglas and M.D. Callahan (eds.) Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Comparative Perspective. Forthcoming. Rowen and Littlefield. 2004.
  
• "Visually Mapping the ‘Nation’: Swadeshi Politics in Nationalist India, 1920-1930." Journal of Asian Studies, (February 2003): 11-41.
  
• "Cornelia Sorabji’s India Calling: a review," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Fall 2002.
  
• "History Lesson: Widening the World History Course," in The Women’s Review of Books. February 1998.
  
• "Enjoyable Distraction: a review of Govind by H. Ratnakar Rau," Indian Review of Books. June 1996.
  
• "Can’t Take A Joke?" The Women’s Review of Books. February 1994.
  

Fellowships and Awards

• Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2004-2005
  
• Visiting Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford University, Spring 2004
  
• Finalist for the for the CGS/UMI Dissertation Award, 1999
  
• Finalist for the American Historical Association's Gutenberg-e Dissertation Prize, 1999
  
• University of California, Davis, Graduate Fellowship, 1998-1999
  
• Humanities Research Award, University of California, Davis, 1997-1998
  
• University of California, Davis, Graduate Fellowship, 1997-1998
  
• Master Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Davis, 1996-97
  
• Fulbright Research Scholarship to India, 1996
  
• Pro-Femina Research Award, University of California, Davis, 1995-1996
  
• Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan, January-March 1995; Grant from the National Security Education Program
  
• Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
  
• Century Scholarship, University of Chicago, 1990-1992
  

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

• Discussant, "The "New" Indian City: Popular Culture, Habitat and Identity," Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 24-26, 2003.
  
• Discussant, "Imperial Visions: Vocabularies of Contact and Exchange," How Empire Matters: Imperial Structures and Globalization in the Era of British Imperialism, U.C. Berkeley, April 5-7, 2003.
  
• "Making Women (In)visible?: the nationalist politics of dress in India, 1920-1935." Invited Speaker, Penn State University, February 12, 2003.
  
• "Rituals of Time: khadi flags and nationalist calendars in British India, 1920-1935." Invited Speaker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 25, 2002.
  
• "Alternative Geographies: A New Asian Studies?," 10th Annual ASIANetwork Conference, Hickory Ridge, Illinois, April 19-21, 2002
  
• "The Nation Clothed: swadeshi and the political body in India, 1917-1930," Invited Speaker, Syracuse University, February 2000
  
• "Domesticating Colonial Space: Gandhi topis, charka flags and the making of national space, 1921-1930," 27th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 1998
  
• "Of Prostitutes and Poor Women: the clothing of women in nationalist India, 1917-1930," Berkeley South Asia Conference, February 1998
  
• "Clothing the Nation: swadeshi and the political body in India, 1917-1930," Cross-Cultural Women's History Colloquium, University of California,Davis, November 1997
  
• "Spinning the Nation: Swadeshi Politics, c. 1915-1935," Scholarly Process Program, University of California, Davis, April 1997
  
• "Can the Subaltern Travel?: a round table discussion," Scholarly Process Program, University of California, Davis, June 1995
  
• "Spinning the Nation: Women and the Politics of Khadi, 1915-1930," 9th National Graduate Women's Studies Conference, University of California, San Diego, April 1994
  

Teaching interests

• South Asian History (1526-1998)
• History of Imperialism and Colonialism
• History of Nationalism
• Comparative Women's History

Service in the Academic Community

• Asian Studies Committee, Hamilton College, 2000--present
  
• Kirkland Project Coordinating Council, Hamilton College, 1999--present
  
• Faculty Representative to the Honor Court, Hamilton College, 2000-2003
  
• Journal Referee, Signs: A Journal of Women in Society and Culture, 1999
  

Professional Associations

• American Historical Association, 1998-present
  
• Association for Asian Studies, 2002-present
  

Languages

• Hindi/Urdu
  
• Gujarati