Assistant Professor Prakash Kumar (on leave 2008-09) Clark B-359 970-491-5230 Prakash.Kumar@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology
M. Phil. University of Delhi
M. A. University of Delhi
B. A. University of Delhi

Specializing in Modern South Asia; Empire and Improvement; Colonial Science

 

Current Research Interests:

Science and Modernity; Technology and Globalization

 

Courses to be taught in the next two years:

HIST 171: World History, 1500-Present
HIST 440: Modern South Asia
HIST 441: South Asia Since Independence
HIST 463: Themes in the Historiography of Modern Science and Technology
HIST 492: Senior Seminar: Science and Empire
HIST 501: Graduate Seminar in Historical Method: Science, Nation, and Modernity
HIST 534: Graduate Reading Seminar in South Asia: Empire, Nation, and the Colonial Genealogies of Modernity

Major Publications:

• Envisioning Agricultural Improvement: State and Science in Late Colonial India, 1860-1905 (in review)
• "Plantation Science: Improving Natural Indigo in Colonial India, 1860-1913," Winning entry, Special Commendation, Singer Prize, British Journal for the History of Science, 40: 4 (December, 2007): 537-565
• "Scientific Experiments in British India: Indigo Planters, Scientists, and the State, 1890-1930," in Indian Economic and Social History Review, 38:3 (June-September, 2001): 249-270
  

 

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• Scholar's Award, National Science Foundation, 2008-09
• Postdoctoral Associate, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Department of History, Yale University (2004-2006)
• Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2004
• Du Pont Dissertation Fellowship, 2003
• Edelstein International Studentship, 2002