Haimanti Roy

History Department

E-51-186, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

EMPLOYMENT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), South Asian History, (July 2005 till date)

EDUCATION

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Ph.D. (Distinction), History Department, June 2006.

Dissertation Title: Citizenship and National Identity in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947-65.

Advisor: Dr. Barbara N. Ramusack

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

M.A., Center for Historical Studies, 1998

Presidency College, Kolkata, India

B.A., History, 1996

Honors and Awards

SHASS Research Fund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008

Outstanding Dissertation, 2006, Ohio Academy of Historians, April 2007.

Dean’s Fund, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005, 2006, 2007.

Taft Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2003-2004

Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2002-2003

English Speaking Union Travel-Study Grant, 2002

Zane L Miller Prize for Best Research Paper, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, 2001

Bangladesh Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2001

History Memorial Fund Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1999-2002

Presentations

Creating Indians: Refugees and Citizens in Post-Partition India, Association for Asian Studies Conference, Chicago, 28 March 2009 (Presented in absentia)

Citizenship and Identity in Post-Colonial South Asia, Panel Organizer, Association for Asian

Studies Conference, Chicago, 28 March 2009.

The Partition of India and its Aftermath, Invited Speaker, University of Wyoming, Laramie,

October 23, 2008.

Women in the Partition of India, Guest Lecture, Women’s Studies Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, October 23, 2008.

Borderline Citizens: Becoming ‘Indians’ and ‘Pakistanis’ in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947-56,

Invited Speaker, Conference on Beyond Independence, 1947-77, Royal Holloway

College, University of London, April 12, 2007.

Citizens without a Nation: Minorities in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947-65, Association for Asian

Studies Conference, Boston, March 22, 2007.

Becoming Minorities in Post Partition Bengal, 1947-65, Pre-Conference Panel, Thirty-Fifth

Annual South Asia Conference, Wisconsin-Madison, 19 October 2006.

The Ecology of Fear: Violence and Migration in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947-50, Thirty-third

Annual South Asia Conference, Wisconsin-Madison, 14-17 October 2004.

Partition and the Making of National Borders, First Graduate Conference on South Asia, Cornell

University, 12-13 March 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

“A Partition of Contingency? Public Discourse in Bengal, 1946-47,” Modern Asian Studies, 43:6, November 2009.

“Passport to a Nation: Documenting Citizens of Independent India,” (article in progress)

Book Review: Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930-42, Gender and History, Forthcoming.

Book Review: Sekhar Bandyopadhya, Caste, Culture and Hegemony, in Contemporary South Asia, 16 (2), June 2008.

Book Review: Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia in Journal of British Studies, 7, 2, April 2008.

Book Review: Vijaya Ramaswamy Ed., Re-Searching Indian Women, Contemporary

South Asia, 15(1) March 2006.

Book Review: Anil Bhatti and Johannes H Voight Eds. Jewish Exile in India 1933-1945, Biblio,

Vol. IV, Nos. 3 & 4, March – April 1999.

Book Review: D. A Low and Howard Brasted Eds. Freedom, Trauma, Continuities: Northern

India and Independence, Biblio Vol. III Nos. 9 & 10, September-October 1998.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor

History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2005 till present

Course Titles: Making of Modern South Asia, 2500BC-2005AD

Women in South Asia, 1800-2005

Religion and Politics in South Asia

Re-Casting the Past: Film, Fiction and History in India, 1905-2005

Instructor

University of Cincinnati, History Department, Summer, 2000, 2004.

Teaching Assistant

University of Cincinnati, History Department, 1999-2002.

SERVICE TO THE INSTITUTE AND HISTORY FACULTY

Member, search Committee for Modern Chinese History, Fall 2008 and Winter 2009.

Member, Selection Committee, Truman Fellowship, December 2007.

Organizer, “Women in Mail Order Marriages,” Talk by Bonnie Zare, Associate Professor, University of Wyoming, in conjunction with the Women and Gender Studies Program, MIT, May 2007

Organizer and Chair, “Re-writing a Nationalist Narrative: India in the 1940s” Talk by Indivar Kamtekar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, at Harvard University, in conjunction with South Asia Initiative, April 2007

Class Lecture, “ The Partition of India: Resources for Historians,” in Media Systems and Texts taught by Henry Jenkins, Comparative Media Studies, MIT, May 2007

Public Lecture, “ The Partition of India and Beyond,” South Asia Business Club, Sloan Business School, MIT, February 2007

Committee Member, Kelly Douglas Essay Prize in the Humanities, April 2007.

Member, Search Committee for Mini-searches in Japan (Spring 2007), Middle East and Europe, (Spring 2006)

Member, Bruce Mazlish History Essay Prize, 2006, 2007, 2008

Concentration Advisor, 2006, 2007

Transfer Credit Advisor, 2006-2007

Additional Information

Native Fluency in Bengali, reading, writing and conversational.

Fluent in Spoken Hindi, with basic reading and writing skills.