Rachel Sturman

Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies

Phone (207) 725-3853
Title Assistant Professor
Department History
2nd Title Assistant Professor
2nd Department ASIAN STUDIES
Work Location 19 Hubbard Hall
E-Mail rsturman@bowdoin.edu
Rachel L. Sturman: Bowdoin College: History, Asian Studies

Spring 2010

  • Sex and the Politics of the Body in India (ASIAN 237)
  • Politics and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century India (ASIAN 258)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in History (HIST 291)

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, September 2001
M.A., University of California, Davis, 1993
A.B., University of Chicago, 1991

Previous Position:

2001-04 Assistant Professor, Department of History and Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Michigan

Publications

Articles

“Property and Attachments: Defining Autonomy and the Claims of Family in Nineteenth Century Western India.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, 3 (July 2005): 611–637.

“Marriage and the Morality of Exchange: Defining the Terrain of Law in Late Nineteenth Century Western India.” In Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World. Edited by Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006: 51–75.

Selected Book Reviews

Review of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire, by Durba Ghosh, Journal of Asian Studies, (Forthcoming). Review of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, by Mrinalini Sinha, Gender & History, 20: 2 (August 2008): 422-423.

Review of Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand, by Tamara Loos, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 8: 1 (Spring 2007).

Review of Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia, edited by Indrani Chatterjee. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37, 4 (Spring 2007): 674–675. “World of Dalit Women.”

Review of Gender and Caste, edited by Anupama Rao. Economic and Political Weekly, 39, 50 (December 11, 2004): 5305–5306.

Work in Progress

Manuscript: Law’s Subjects: Property, Personhood and Family in the Making of Modern India. (To be submitted January 2009.)

“Theorizing Human Value: the Colonial Jurisprudence of Hindu Marriage,” Feminist Studies. (Under revision.)

Invited contribution: “Marriage & Family in Colonial Hindu Law,” The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Hinduism. (Forthcoming 2009.)

Transnational forum: “Gender and the Human,” Gender & History. (Forthcoming 2010.)