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Elizabeth Kolsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
St Augustine Ctr Liberal Arts Rm 438
History
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
elizabeth.kolsky@villanova.edu
(610) 519-4682
Fax: (610) 519-4450
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| Education: |
- Ph.D., History, Columbia University, 2002
- B.A., Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1993
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| Courses Taught: |
- History of Modern South Asia
- India and Pakistan in the 20th Century
- History and Literature of India's Partition
- Subalterns and Empire in India
- Colonial/Post-Colonial History and Theory
- Empire and Decolonization
- Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- Post-Colonial Theory
- Global Feminism
- Third World Women
- Themes in Modern World History
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| Teaching Areas: |
- South Asian history; history of the British Empire; modern world history; colonial and post-colonial studies; feminist theory.
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| Academic Positions: |
- Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University, 2004-
- Assistant Professor of History and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, 2002-2004
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| Publications: |
- Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law, Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 17 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Fringes of Empire: People, Power and Places in Colonial India, co-edited with Sameetah Agha (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- "'The Body Evidencing the Crime': Rape on Trial in Colonial India, 1860-1947," Gender & History, 22, 1 (March 2010)
- "Rape on Trial in Early Colonial India, 1805-1857," The Journal of Asian Studies, 69, 4 (November 2010)
- "Tea, Labor and Empire in India," in Beatrice Hohenegger (ed.), Steeped in History: The Art of Tea (University of California Press, 2009)
- "Crime and Punishment on the Tea Plantations of Colonial India," in Markus Dirk Dubber and Lindsay Farmer (eds.), Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)
- "Codification and the Rule of Colonial Difference: Criminal Procedure in British India," Law and History Review, 23, 3 (September 2005)
- "A Note on the Study of Indian Legal History," Forum on Colonial Order, British Law: The Empire in India, Law and History Review, 23, 3 (September 2005)
- "The East India Company," in Prem Kumar Poddar and David Johnson (eds.), A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)
- "Less Successful Than the Next: South Asian Taxi Drivers in New York City," SAGAR: South Asian Graduate Research Journal, 5, 1 (Spring 1998)
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| Grants Received: |
- National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program research grant
- British Academy Visiting Fellowship, 2007-2008
- Villanova University History Department Faculty Research Grant, 2007
- Villanova University Summer Research Grant, 2006
- Pratt Institute Mellon Grant, 2003 and 2004
- Pratt Institute Mellon Travel Grant, 2003 and 2004
- Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy Graduate Fellow, Columbia University, 2001
- National Science Foundation Global Perspectives on Law and Social Science Fellowship, 1999
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers Fellowship, 2000
- Columbia University Dean's Summer Fellowship, 2000
- Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship, 1999
- American Institute of Pakistan Studies Fellowship, 1999 (declined)
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers Fellowship, 1999 (declined)
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Urdu, 1998 and 1999
- Ford Foundation Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Fellowship, 1998
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship in Hindi, 1997
- Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan Fellowship, 1995
- Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars Summer Research Assistant Fellowship, 1993
- Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights Summer Fellowship, 1992
- Solomon and Seymour Fischer Civil Liberties Summer Fellowship, 1991
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| Honors and Awards: |
- Outstanding Instructor, College Board Advanced Placement Best Practices Course Study, 2006
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