Assistant Professor Prakash Kumar 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; Colony and the World; Science and Modernity

 

Current Research Interests:

Cosmopolitanism in the Colony; Agricultural Institutions; GM crops in Contemporary India

 

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 and Transnationalism
HIST 534: Graduate Reading Seminar in South Asia: World, Nation, and Colonial 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, Yale University, Department of History (2004-2006)
• Dissertation Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2004
• Hagley Museum Fellowship, 2003
• Beckman Center Fellowship, 2002