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Sep 14 2018 | Posted In: Announcements, Faculty
Assistant Professor of South Asian Humanities
Sep 7 2018 | Posted In: Announcements, In the News
Two long-term senior lecturers in Bengali and Nepali at Cornell University will be retiring at the end of this academic year and as such, they are searching for new hires at either the lecturer or senior lecturer level. The application deadline is October 31, 2018, and please feel free to contact...
May 18 2018 | Posted In: Faculty, In the News
In ‘Empire of Guns,’ historian Priya Satia explores the microcosm of firearm manufacturing through an unlikely subject—a Quaker family
For nearly 150 years, beginning in 1688 with the launch of the Nine Years’ War and stretching through the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, Great Britain engaged...
May 15 2018 | Posted In: In the News
Stanford Law students at an artifact workshop outside the Taj MahalThis past spring break, I had the opportunity to travel to Delhi, India as a field trip extension of “Global Poverty and the Law,” a course taught by Professor ErikJensen and
May 15 2018 | Posted In: Faculty, In the News
U.S. power today relies on sophisticated global surveillance networks, which the world is keenly aware of but rarely sees. In Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (OUP, 2008), Priya Satia explains how it became possible to possess...
