Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016).
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Southeast Asia; Thailand; gender; legal studies; sexuality; Internet; travel; identity
Books
Co-editor with Dane Kennedy, Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
Recent publications
“Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus, Women’s History Review
“Stabilizing history: statues, monuments, and memorials in Curzon’s India,” Historical Journal 66.2 (2023): 348-69.
Articles on political violence in colonial India
“The ‘terrorist’ and his jailor: the conundrum of ‘friendship’ and intimacy,” article for special issue of Itinerario, “The Private Lives of Empire: Race, Emotion and the Intimate in Colonial Rule,” edited by William Jackson, Itinerario 42.1 (2018): 102-19.
“Gandhi and the Terrorists,” article for special issue of South Asia 32.3 on “Writing Revolution; practice, history, politics in modern South Asia” edited by Daniel Eelam, Kama Maclean, and Chris Moffat. (September 2016): 560-76.
“An Archive of ‘Political Trouble in India’: history-writing, anticolonial violence, and colonial counterinsurgency, 1905-37,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, edited by Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven, published online, 2014.
“History Makes Women Well-behaved”: Revolutionary Women, Nationalist Heroes," Gender and History 25.2 (August 2013): 355-75.
“Terrorism in Bengal: imperial strategies of political violence and its containment in the interwar years,” in Decentring Empire (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
Articles on historiography
“Whither India?: 1919 and the aftermath of the first world war,” for forum on 1919 in Journal of Asian Studies 78.2 (May 2019): 389-97.
“New Directions in Transnational History,” in New Directions in Social and Cultural History, edited by Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, and Lucy Noakes (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
“The archives of Geraldine Forbes and Barbara Ramusack: restoring women’s voices,” for a fetzschrift edited by Padma Anagol and Swapna Banerjee (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Roundtable on Historiographic “Turns” in Critical Perspective: “Another Set of Imperial Turns?” American Historical Review 117.3 (June 2012): 772-93.
“Optimism and Political History: a perspective from India,” Perspectives on History 49.5 (May 2011): 25-27.
“Introduction,” in Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World, written with Dane Kennedy (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).
Articles on gender, sexuality, and colonialism
“Body Politics, Sexualities, and the ‘modern family’ in Global History,” in World Histories from Below: Dissent and Disruption, 1750-present, edited by Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne (Bloomsbury, 2016).
“Legal and Liberal Subjects: women’s crimes in early colonial India,” Journal of Women’s History 22 (Summer 2010): 153-56.
“Who counts as ‘native?’”: gender, race, and subjectivity in colonial India,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 6.3 (2005).
“National Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India” in Archive Stories, edited by Antoinette Burton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
“Decoding the Nameless: Gender, Subjectivity, and Historical Methodologies in Reading the Archives of Colonial India,” in A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, Modernity, 1660-1840, edited by Kathleen Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
“Household Crimes and Domestic Order: Keeping the Peace in Colonial Calcutta, c.1770- c.1840,” Modern Asian Studies 38, 3 (July 2004): 598-624.
“Gender and Colonialism: expansion or marginalization?” The Historical Journal 47, 3 (September 2004): 737-55.
“Making and Un-making Loyal Subjects: Pensioning Widows and Educating Orphans in Early Colonial India,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 31 (January 2003): 1-28.
Articles on public history
“Exhibiting Asia: Museums, Consumption, and Commerce,” in Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation, edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Knauer (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
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modern south Asia; gender; colonialism
Books:
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (PM Press/Spectre, 2022). Spanish translation forthcoming with Prometeo Editorial (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and poetry in interwar Chile (Oxford University Press, 2016) Published in translation as: Santiago Subversivo 1920: Anarquistas, universitarios y la muerte de José Domingo Gómez Rojas. Trans. by Pablo Abufom Silva, LOM Ediciones, Chile, 2017
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke University Press, 2004). Published in translation as: México Cartográfico: Una historia de límites fijos y paisajes fugitivos. Trans. by Rossana Reyes, UNAM/Inst. de Geografía/CISAN, Mexico, 2014
Martirio, memoria, historia: Sobre los subversivos y la expulsión de Casimiro Barrios, 1920 (Santiago: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Serie Signos de la Memoria, 2015)
Edited books:
No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms [co-edited with Barry Maxwell] (PM Press, 2015). German translation, edition assemblage, forthcoming.
Recent essays:
“Escape Therapy,” Los Angeles Review of Books (January 2023)
“Blast Off,” Anarchist Review of Books (Fall 2022)
“The Brief Life and Watery Death of a ‘70s Libertarian Micronation,” Slate (May 21, 2022)
“Crypto Bros are Trying to Buy an Island in the Pacific,” Jacobin (April 22, 2022)
“Egotopia,” Counterpunch (Aug. 23, 2018)
"Lxs anarquistas," Latin American Research Review (2023)
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BA, History, Eastern Michigan University, 1990
MA, Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994
PhD, History, Yale University, 2001