Faculty
Haimanti Roy
Assistant Professor of History On Leave 2011-2012

Haimanti Roy specializes in the political and social history of colonial India and modern South Asia. She received her Ph. D. (Distinction) in History at University of Cincinnati, Ohio in 2006. Her dissertation won the Ohio Academy of Historians award for the best dissertation in 2007. She is currently completing her first monograph entitled Partitioned Lives: Refugees, Migrants, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65 (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). The book examines issues of territoriality, identity, migration and citizenship, and the subsequent re-ordering of national identities of ordinary men and women in post-Partition India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh).

At MIT, she teaches courses which aim to both introduce general South Asian history to the non-specialist as well as focus on specific thematic topics such as religion, politics, gender, citizenship in the colonial and post-colonial contexts of South Asia.