Sandhya Shukla

(2008)
Associate Professor
American Studies, English

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale, 1998
MA Yale, 1991
BA Cornell, 1988

Books

  • Cross Cultures of Modern Harlem (in progress).
  • Imagining Our Americas: Nation, Empire, and Region., edited with Heidi Tinsman.  (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007).
  • India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Published in South Asia by Orient Longman Private Limited (New Delhi) in 2005.

Articles

  • “Harlem’s Pasts in its Present,” for Politics, Publics, Personhood: Ethnography at the Limits of Neoliberalism, ed. Carol Greenhouse (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming in 2009).
  • “Interdisciplinarity and Historical Encounter of the Americas,” with Heidi Tinsman, LASA Forum 36:2 (Fall 2005).
  • “Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings”: Special Issue of Radical History Review, edited and introduced with Heidi Tinsman, Spring 2004. {Awarded “Best Special Issue for 2004" by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals}
  • “Comparativism, Ethnicity and the United States, in a Diasporic History of the Americas,” [review essay],  American Quarterly, Vo. 54, No. 1 (March 2002).
  • “Locations for South Asian Diasporas,” in Annual Review of Anthropology 30 (2001).

Grants and Fellowships

  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, 2005-2006
  • Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, 2001-2002
  • Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997-1998
  • Henry Hart Rice Advanced Research Fellowship, Yale University, 1993-1994
  • John F. Enders Research Grant, Yale University, Summer of 1993