YANG, Anand A.

EDUCATION

B.A. Swarthmore College, 1970

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1976

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Research Assistant, University of Virginia, Project on "Peasant Movements in South Asia," 1971

Visiting Lecturer in Asian Studies, Sweet Briar College, Fall 1974

Assistant to Associate to Full Professor, University of Utah, 1975-81, 1981-92, 1992- .

Editor, Peasant Studies, 1981-94

Chair, Department of History, 1989-94

Director, Asian Studies, University of Utah, 1995- Editor, Journal of Asian Studies, 1995-2000

Coeditor (with Jerry Bentley), New series entitled "Perspectives on the Global Past," University of Hawaii Press, 2001-

Coeditor (with Bonnie Smith), New Series in World History, Oxford University Press, 2001-

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Governor's Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1970-72 Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, Distinction

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Grant Abroad, 1972-74 American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellow, 1974

University of Utah Faculty Research Grant, summer 1976 University of Utah Faculty Research Grant, summer 1977

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Grants-in-Aid for I{ecent Recipients of the Ph.D., summer 1977

David P. Gardner Research Fellowship, University of Utah, 1981 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, 1983-84

ACLS & the Social Science Research Council, Joint Committee on South Asia, summer 1985

University of Utah Faculty Research Grant, summer 1986

Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), summer 1987

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants for Research in European, African or Asian History, American Historical Association, 1988-89

Travel to Collections Grant, NEH, summer 1990 Dee Council Grant, University of Utah, 1994

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, 1994-95 Faculty Fellow Award, University of Utah, 1994

S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; Utah Humanities Council; P .1., grants

for Conference on "Multiculturalism in Global Perspective: Constructing and Resisting Multicultural Societies and Identities"

University Professorship, University of Utah, 1996-97

Ramona Cannon Teaching Award, College of Humanities, 1997

NEH, Summer Stipend, 2000 III

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ORGANIZATIONS

Board of Editors, Selected Papers in Asian Studies, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), 1978

Consultant, Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Field Reader Panel, Faculty Research Abroad Program, Fulbright-Hays, Dec. 4-8,1978; Dec. 10-14, 1979

Executive Board, WCAAS, 1979-82

Conference Chair, WCAAS, Salt Lake City, Oct. 10-11,1980

Consultant, Dept. of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Office of International Education, Panel on Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs, May 4-8,1981

President, WCAAS, 1981-82, 1987-88

Member, South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 1981-84 Board of Trustees, Utah State Historical Society, 1981-84 Editorial Advisory Board, Revolt Studies, 1985- Executive Board, WCAAS, 1985-88

Consultant, Dept. of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad & Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Programs, Dec. 9-12, 1985

Conference Chair, WCAAS, Park City, Utah, Oct. 10-11, 1986

Referee, International Research and Studies Program, Title VI, U.S. Department of Education, 1986

Program Committee, American Historical Association (AHA), 1986-87 Consultant, Dept. of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Disseration Research

Abroad Program, 1986-87

Consultant, Dept. of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad & Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program, 1988

Referee, Travel to Collections program, Twentieth-Century European and World History, NEH, 1988

Consultant, Dept. of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad & Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program, 1989

Council of Conferences, AAS, 1989-92 (chair, 1991-92)

Area Advisory Committee for South Asia, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 1989-92

Editorial Editorial Board,The Historian, 1990-95 Board of Directors, AAS, 1991-92

Professional Division Committee, AHA, 1991-93

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswami Book Prize Committee for Best Book in South Asian Studies, AAS, 1991-94

History panel, Collaborative Projects, NEH, February 1992

Education Committee, AAS, 1992-94

Social Science panel, Collaborative Projects, NEH, February 1993 Assistant Editor, Journal of Asian Studies, 1993-94 Program Committee, AHA, 1995-96

Council, Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, 1996-99 Board of Directors, AAS, 1995-2000

Panel of Consultants, "World History," College Board, June 1996

Consultant, CD-ROM project on "World Migrations," Northeastern University, WGBH, and Annenberg Foundation, 1997-98

Review Committee, Scholars-in-Residence Program, Fulbright, CIES, 1998 President, Rocky Mountain World Association, 1998-

Field Reader, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institute, 1998-99, 1999- 2000

Reviewer, SSRC, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program, 1999-2000, 2000-2001

Steering Committee, interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical Analysis," American Historical Association, 2000-2001 (led tc conference at Library of Congress, Feb. 28-March 3, 2001)

Panelist, NEH, Summer Stipends grants, 2000-1

Review Committee, Scholar-in-Residence Program, Fulbright, CIES, 2001-2 Program and Local Arrangements Cochair, World History Association,

Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, June 28-July I, 2001 Editorial Board, India Review, 2001-

Program Cochair, American Historical Association meeting, 2003

Member: American Historical Association; Association for Asian Studies; Committee on Women in the Historical Profession(CWHP); Phi Alpha Theta; World History Association

 

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

United Fund Drive Committee, 1975-76 Parking Appeals Committee, 1976-77 Council of Faculty Advisers, 1980-81

Campus Recreation Committee, 1981-83, 1987-89 Chair, Asian Studies Committee, 1977-83 Humanities Institute Committee

International Studies Committee on the Curriculum, 1984-85 Chair, Internal Review Committee, English Department, 1987 Elected Member, University Senate, 1987-90

Internal Review Committee, Mining Engineering, 1989-90 Task Force on Asian Studies, 1989-

University Research Committee, 1989-92

Tanner Lecture Committee, 1989-93, 1998- University Press Committee, 1989-93

Honors Program Advisory Committee, 1991-94 Elected Member, University Senate, 1994-97

Executive Committee, University Senate, 1995-96

University Promotion and Tenure Appeals Committee, 1995-98 Liberal Education Council, 1996-97

Elected Member, University Senate, 1998-2000

Committee on Future Directors for the Honors Program, 2000-1

College of Humanities Career Development Committee, 1977-79 College of Humanities Executive Committee, 1982-83

College of Humanities Development Committee, 1991-92

College of Humanities Ramona Cannon Teaching Award Committee, 1997- 2001

College of Humanities, RPT Committee, 1998-2000

History Department Executive Committee, 1976-77, 1978-81, 1984-85 History Department Undergraduate Adviser, 1979-81

History Department Honors Adviser, 1981-83, 1984-89

History Department Undergraduate Committee, 1997-98

Cultural Awareness Training Program, 1976-77

Board of Directors, Chinese for Community Action (Utah), 1977- Board of Directors, Wimmer and Wimmer Dance Company, 1979-80 Board, Asian Association of Utah, 1980-82

Wasatch Front South Employment and Training Council, 1980-82 Social Studies Committee, State Course of Study Committee and State

Textbook Commission, Utah State afice of Education, 1983-86 National Board, Repertory Dance Theater (RDT), 1985-

 

PUBLICATIONS

Crime and Criminality in British India. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986,editor and contributor of two essays--"Introduction: Issues and Themes in the Study of Historical Crime and Criminality: Passages to the Social History of British India" and "Dangerous Castes and Tribes: The Criminal Tribes Act and the Magahiya Doms of Northeast India."

The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793- 1920. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989

Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998; New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000

Empire of Convicts, forthcoming

Edited volume on Rebellion in India, 1757-1857, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Edited volume on Power, Agrarian Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modem India, forthcoming

(with James R. Hagen) "Local Sources for the Study of Rural India: The 'Village Notes' of Bihar ," Indian Economic and Social History

Review 13 (1976): 75-84 , "Agrarian Reform and Peasant Dissidence: The Continuing Crisis in India." I,

Peasant Studies 5 (1976): 9-14

"An Institutional Shelter: The Court of Wards in Late Nineteenth Century Bihar." Modern Asian Studies 13 (1979): 247-64

"Peasants on the Move: A Study of Internal Migration in India." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 10 (1979): 37-58

"The Agrarian Origins of Crime: A Study of Riots in Saran District, India, 1866- 1920." Journal of Social History 13 (1979): 189-206

"Social History and Local Records: Sources for the Study of Modem Bihar." Indian Archives 28 (1979): 1-23

"Images of Asia: A Passage through Fiction and Film." History Teacher 15 (1980):351-69

"Sacred Symbol and Sacred Space in Rural India: Community Mobilization in the 'Anti-Cow Killing' Riot of 1893." Comparative Studies in Society and History 25 (1980): 576-96

"Adaptations in the New World: Micro-Perspectives on the Indochinese

Refugee Experience in the United States." Selected Papers in Asian studies, new series, Paper no. 8, 1982, Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

(with Ann Waltner) " 'Plaintiff for the Chinese Peasants': Fei Xiaotong and the Study of Rural China." Peasant Studies 10 (1983): 163-74

"Between British Raj and Saran Raiyat: The Development of Local Control Institutions in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries." In Rural

India: Land, Power, and Society under British Rule, ed. Peter Robb. London: Curzon Press, 1983. Reprinted Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. "A Conversation of Rumors: The Language of Popular Mentalites in Late

Nineteenth-Century Colonial India." Journal of Social History 20 (1987):

485-505

"The Many Faces of Sati in early Nineteenth Century India," (extracts of a paper) Manushi 42-43 (1987): 26-29

"Disciplining 'Natives': Prisons and Prisoners in Early Nineteenth Century Colonial India," South Asia n.s., 10 (1987)

"Whose Sati? Widow Burning in Early 19th-Century India," Journal of Women's History 1 (1989): 8-33. Reprinted in Expanding the

Boundaries of Women's History: Essays on the History of Women in the Third World, eds. Cheryl ]ohnson-Odim and Margaret Strobel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992)

"World Cultures and World Geography Texts: Coverage of India," in

National Review of Asia in American Textbooks in 1993: Secondary Level: World History, World Cultures, World Geography, National Project on Asia in American Schools at Columbia Universit)r and the Association for Asian Studies (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1993)

Contributor, entries on "Asian Peasantry," "Land Tenure and Reform," South Asian Cities," and "South Asian Migration," and part of the Editorial Board, Peter N. Stearns, general editor, Encylopedia of Social History (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1994)

"The Voice of Colonial Discipline and Punishment: Knowledge, Power and the Penological Discourse in Early Nineteenth Century India," Indo- British Review 21 (1995): 62-71

Contributor (over a 100 entries), The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, vol. I, general editor, Mary Beth N"orton, 3rd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)

"Preface--Chinese Community," in Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah, eds. Leslie G. Kelen and Eileen Hallet Stone (Salt Lake City: University of Utah press, 1996), pp. 196-201 to f

"Do You Know the One about the Raja Who killed a Tiger? Oppression,

History and the Maksudpur Story," in Political Economy and Protest in Colonial India: Professor Sunil Kumar Sen Commemoration Volume, eds. C. Palit, A. Bhattacharyya, R. Chakrabarti (Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1997), pp. 22-47

"Orientalism: Better 'Said' Than Not," ASIANetwork Exchange 7,3 (2000):23- 24

 

BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS

IN: Agricultural History; American Historical Review; Annals, American Academy of Political and Social Science; China Information; Journal of Asian Studies; Pacific Affairs; South Asia in Review; Weber Studies; W(]lmen's Studies International Forum.

 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

"An Institutional Shelter: The Court of Wards in Nineteenth Century Bihar",I! Southeast Region Conference, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), University of Georgia, Jan. 23-25, 1975

Chair, "Politics of South Asia," Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), University of Colorado, Boulder, Oct. 10, 1975

"The 'Total Revolution' in Bihar: J.P. and the 'People's Opposition' in 1974," and discussant Panel on "South Asia," WCAAS, Northern Arizona University, Oct. 8-9, 1976

"Dissidence and Agrarian Violence in Saran District, Bihar, 1857-1920," AAS, New York, Mar. 25-27, 1977

Chair, "Economics and Politics in South Asia," WCAAS, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Oct. 7-8,1977

"The Optimizing Peasant: A Study of Internal Migration as an Option in a Northeast Indian District," Workshop on the Efffects of Risk and Uncertainty on Economic and Social Processes in South Asia, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 10-12,1977

"Between Raj and Raiyat: The Great Estate of Hathwa in Nineteenth Century India," Conference on Intermediate Political Linkages in South Asia, SSRC, University of California, Berkeley, Mar. 16-18, 1978

Discussant, Panel on "Current Trends in South Asian Politics," WCAAS, ill University of Arizona, Oct. 13-14,1978

"Control and Community in the North Indian Countryside: The 'Anti-Cow Killing' Riot of 1893," American Historical Association (AHA.), San Francisco, Dec. 29-30, 1978

Discussant, Panel on "Some Quantitative Approaches to the Study of Indian Social Structure," AAS, Los Angeles, Mar. 30- Apr. 1, 1979

"Teaching Asian Civilizations: A Liberal Education Approach," Western Social Science Association, Lake Tahoe, Apr. 26-28, 1979

"Images of Asia: Teaching Asian Studies through Fiction and Film," and Discussant, Panel on "Public versus Private Views of India, WCAAS, Boise State University, Oct. 12-13, 1979

"The Making of a Criminal Tribe: The Magahiya Doms of North India," Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., Mar. 21-23,1980

Chair, South Asia Section, World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City, Aug. 12-15,1980

Discussant, "Politics in the British Raj," WCAAS, Salt Lake City, Oct. 10-11, 1980 "Linkages between British Raj and Saran Raiyat: The Development of Local

Control Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," International Sympos~um on 'The External Dimension in Rural Southli Asia,' School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Dec. 11-13, 1980

"Metaphors of British Rule in India: The View from Sonepur Mela and Meet," WCAAS, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 5-7, 1981

Discussant, "British Radicals and India, 1880-1920," Southern Conference on British Studies/ Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 12-14, 1981

"Exit, Voice and Loyalty as Peasant Options: The 'Wholesale Desertions' of 1879 from the Great Estate of Hathwa," International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, University of Pittsburgh, May 27- 30, 1982

"Indochinese Refugees in Utah: The Problems of Resettlement," WCAAS, University of Colorado, Boulder, Sept. 17-18, 1982

"Control in Colonial India: The View from Below," St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University, Oct. 13, 1982

"Approaches to the Study of Crime in British India: A Comparative Framework," 11th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Nov. 5-7,1982

"The Dynamics of Local Marketing Systems in Bihar," Indian History II

Congress, Kurukshetra, India, Dec. 27-29, 1982 : "Crime in Historical Perspective: European and Indian Models," Jawaharlal

Nehru University, Delhi, Jan. 3,1983

"Crime in India and Elsewhere: A Historiographical Discussion," A.N .S. Institute for the Social Sciences, Patna, Feb. 11,1984

Participant, "A Workshop about Asia: Its Place and Importance in the Undergraduate Curriculum," Division of Education, NEH, San Francisco, Feb. 9-11, 1983

"Strategies of Adaptation among Bihar Zamindars, 1765-1857, AAS, San Francisco, Mar. 25-27,1983

"Historians and Crime: Notes on Historical Crime-Watching," Patrla University, Dept. of History, May 9, 1984

" A Conversation of Rumors: The Language of Popular Mentalites in Late Nineteenth Century Colonial India," South Asia Seminar Series, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Oct. 26, 1984

"Reflections on the Forthcoming Elections in India," Seminar on Indian Elections, University of Virginia, Oct. 29, 1984

Chair and Discussant, "Asians in the American Southwest," WCAAS, Santa I Fe, New Mexico, Nov. 8-10,1984

"Whither India?" Coffee and Politics, Hinckley Institute, University, of Utah, Feb. 21, 1985

"Sati in Nineteenth Century India: A Local Study," WCAAS, California State University, Long Beach, Oct. 11-12,1985

"The Historical Roots of Bihar's Agrarian Crisis: A District View," 14th

Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Nov. 1-3, 1985

"The Historiographical Roots of Social History," Southeast Conference, AAS, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Jan. 16-18,1986 ,

"Gandhi and Mao in the Scales of Human History," Humanities Lecture ~I~~~- Montana State University, Feb. 13, 1986

Chair, "'Popular Culture' and Public Arenas: Social History of Banaras in the 19th and 20th Centuries," AAS, Chicago, Mar. 21-23,1986

"Towards a New South Asian Past: The Social History of Modern India," Workshop on the Changing Social History of a North Indian City: Banaras in the 19th and 20th Centuries, University of California, Berkeley, Mar. 28-29, 1986

"Prisons and Prisoners in 19th Century Colonial India," WCAAS, Park City, , Utah, Oct. 10-11, 1986

"Disciplining 'Natives': Prisons and Prisoners in 19th Century Colonial

10th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, Singapore, Oct. 27-31, 1986

"Peasants and Indigo Plantations in Nineteenth Century Bihar," 15th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Nov. 7-9, 1986

"The New Social History: Current American Historical Writings," a series of three talks, Chu Hai College, Hong Kong, Dec. 11-12, 1986

"Disciplining Colonial India: The Technology of Punishment in the early Nineteenth Century," AAS, Boston, April 10-12, 1987

"The City of Patna: The Central Place of Exchange," WCAAS, Tucson, Oct. 1987 Discussant, Panel on "Agricultural Development in South Asia: Social Power

and Technology in the 18th and 19th Centuries," AAS, San Francisco, Mar. 25-27, 1988

"Peasants and Traders in Gangetic Bihar, 1765-1947," WCAAS, Uni,rersity of Washington, Seattle, Oct. 20-22,1988

"Cows and Melas: The Socioeconomic Field of Bihar's Religious Fairs,"

Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, Oct. 28, 1988 Discussant, Panel on "Incorporating Women into World History and the

Histories of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America," AHA, Cincinnati, Dec. 27-30, 1988

Respondent, Panel on "Understanding Japan," Program on "the Humanities: Traditional Identities, New Dialogues," Humanities Center, University of Utah, April 14, 1989

"Community and Space: Village and Market in Colonial India," SSRC

Workshop on "Culture, Consciousness and the Colonial State," Isle of Thoms, Sussex, England, July 24-27, 1989

Chair, "The Politics and Rituals of India's 'Appointed Day'," 18th Annual Conference on South Asia, November 3-5,1989

"Beyond Mud Walls: Village, Market and Colonial State in Bihar, 1:765-1947," Conference on Peasant Culture and Consciousness," Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Italy, Jan. 22-26, 1990

Chair, Panel on "The (Post)Colonial Intellectual, the Intellectual, the Subaltern and Question of History," Conference on "Rewriting the (Post)Modern: (P)ostcolonialism/Feminism/Late Capitalism," Humanities Center, University of Utah, Mar. 30-31, 1990

"Inventing Village India," and "The City of Discontent: Patna in the Age of 'Revolution,' "Asian Studies Association of Australia, Brisbane, July 2- 5,1990

"The Voice of Colonial Discipline: Knowledge, Power and the Penological Discourse in Early Nineteenth Century India," Workshop on "History and the Foucauldian State," Sydney University, Sydney, July 13, 1990 "The Socioeconomic Field of Bihar's 'Religious' Fairs," and Discussant, panel

on "The Cultural Dimension of Authority in Asia," West and Southwest AAS, Austin, Texas, Ocxt. 12-13, 1991

Discussant, "The State and Popular Participation in Community Activities," Independent Scholars of South Asia, 5th South Asian Studies Confer~nce,

University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 22, 1991

"Peasants, Traders and Merchants in Gangetic Bihar, 1765-1947," and chair, panel on "In the Shadows of Colonialism: Artisans, Fisherfolk,

Peasants, Moneylenders, Merchants and Traders in India," part I, AAS, New Orleans, Apr. 11-14, 1991

"The Voice of Colonial Discipline and Punishment: The Penological Discourse in India," Conference on '.'Learning the Rules: Schooling, Law, and the

Reproduction of Social Order in Early Modern Eurasia," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 10-11, 1991

"Understanding the Other," World History Symposium University of Utah, May 17,1991

"Do You Know the One about the Raja who killed a Tiger? Rumor, Reputation and Repression in the Maksudpur Raj," AAS, Washington, D.C., April 2-5, 1992 "Hinterlands: Bazaars in the Age of Gandhi," WCAAS, Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 23-24, 1992

Discussant, "Capitalism, Petty Commodity Makers and Decision Making," 21st Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Nov. 6-8, 1992

"Narrative History, Markets and Power in the Age of Gandhi," Cultural Studies Forum, University of Utah, Nov. 18, 1992

"The View from the 'Other' Fields of History: The History Profession and the Academic Marketplace in the 1990s,11 AHA, Washington, D.C., Dec. 27- 30, 1992

Discussant, "Dimensions of Ethnic and Cultural Nationalism in Asia," Center for International studies, University of Wisconsin,

Milwaukee/Marquette University, Feb. 26-27, 1993

"Visualizing Patna: History and the Patna School of Painting," AAS, Los Angeles, March 25-28, 1993

"Towards a New South Asian Past: The 'New' History of Colonial ]:ndia," 34th International Congress Asian and North African Studies, Hong Kong, Aug. 22-28, 1993

"Representing Patna: Art, Ideology and the Patna School of Painting,"

Combined Western and Southwestern Conferences, AAS, Mexico qity, Oct. 22-23, 1993

"Discovering India: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in 19th Century North India," IAAS, Boston, Mar. 24-27,1994

"Bankers, Merchants and Traders: The Marwaris of Bihar," WCAAS, Claremont Colleges, Ca., Oct. 21-22, 1994

"Convicts, Cannibals and Colonial Rule: India, the Andaman Islands and Asia," 4th Annual International Conference of the World History Association, Florence, Italy, June 22-25,1995

"Caste, Religion, and Prisons in North India: The Brass Lotah Emeutes of 1~55,' Pacific Coast Branch, AHA, Aug. 4-7,1995, Maw, Hawaii

"A Diaspora of 'Convicts': Indians in Southeast Asia in the Early 19th Century," Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, Apr. 5,1996

"A (British)Indian/Rajput Soldier in China: 'Self' and 'Others' in the Autobiography /History of Gadhadhar Singh," and participant in

"Round Table: The New Cultural History and Asian Studies," AAS, Honolulu, Hawaii, Apr. 11-14,1996

Discussant and chair, three panels, WCAAS, Ogden, Utah, Oct. 1996

Chair, "Resistance, Identity, and the State," Rocky Mountain World History Association, University of Utah, Oct. 31-Nov. 2,1996

Discussant, "Transnational Ethnic Identities," AHA, New York, Jan. 2-5, 1997 Chair and Discussant, "Asian Religions," American Academy of Religion &

the Society of Biblical Literature, Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Regional Meeting, May 2-3, 1997

"The City of Patna: An Urban History," Comparative Urban History Conference, University of Utah, June 15-18,1997

Discussant, Panel on "The Ties that Double Bind: Rethinking Intermediary Comrnmunities and the Making of Colonial Power in Late 19th

Century India," Association for Asian Studies, March 25-28, 1998 Participant, Round Table, Comparative Urban History, South Asia and the

Middle East, International Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, Holland, June 25-28,1998

Discussant, "Diverse Strategies for Teaching World History," Ame:rican Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Jan. 8-10, 1999

Caste, Religion, and Prisons in North India: the Lotah Emeute of 1855," Association for Asian Studies, Boston, March 11-14,1999

"The Making of an Indian Convict Laboring Class in Southeast Asia in the Early Nineteenth Century," Conference on "Class, Culture and Globalization," University of California, Irvine, Mar. 20, 1999

"Orientalism: Better Said Than Not," Plenary Session, ASIANetwork Conference, Tacoma, April 23-25, 1999

"Sex and the Single Convict: Arranged Marriages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century India," AHA/PCB, Maui, Hawaii, Aug. 5-8, 1999

"Rural Markets and Periodicity in Colonial Bihar,1793-1947," and discussant for panel on "Conducting Trade in Early Colonial South Asia," 28th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Oct. 14-17,1999

"Convict Tales from Bengkulen," Conference on "Colonial Places, Convict Spaces: Penal Transportation in Global Context, c. 1600-1940," University of leicester, Leicester, England, Dec. 9-10, 1999

"Empire of Convicts," Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah "Slave/Convict/Laborer, Indian/Malay /Chinese," Association for Asian

Studies, San Diego, March 9-12, 2000

"Defining World History in a Survey Context," World History Association, Northeastern University, Boston, June 22-25, 2000

"Integrating South Asia into World History," Humanities Program Workshop on India, University of North Carolina at Asheville, September 22-23, 2000 "Using Thematic and Comparative Structures to define the New AP World

History Course," 80th Annual Conference of National Council for the Social Studies, San Antonio, Nov. 17-19,2000

Discussant, ""New Perspectives in South Asian History: Views from the Peripheries," American Historical Association, Boston, Jan. 4-7,2001

"Recent Trends in World History Scholarship," Small Group Discussions, AP World History Teachers Conference, Marina del Ray, Ca., Jan. 13, 20Q1

"Responding to the Challenge of Becoming a Global Community," College Board, Western Regional Meeting, Feb. 17-20,2001, Seattle,Washington

"The Rhetoric of Empire: Tansportation and Colonial South and Sc'utheast

Asia," Brown Bag Series, University of Michigan, March 16,2001 I " A Punishment to Fit the Crime: The Transportation of Criminals in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries India," Association for Asian

Studies, Chicago, March 22-25, 2001

 

PUBLIC LECTURES/TALKS

"The Chinese Experience in America: An Historical Overview," Ethnic

Minorities of Utah Seminar Series, Community services Council, YWCA, Nov. 5, 1975

"The Chinese in America: Self-perceptions and Values," Ethnic Minorities Seminar, Women's Division, Utah State Prison, Draper, June 23, 1976

"The Forgotten Contribution: The Chinese Role in the Golden Spike," 108th Anniversary, Golden Spike Celebrations, Promontory Point, May 10, 1977

"My People's Struggle for Freedom and Justice in America," Draper Prison, Jan. and Mar. 1977

"Images and Self-Images: Chinese and Chinese-Americans," Peoples of Uta~ DCE class, Oct. 25, 1979 :' "Historic India: An Illustrated Talk," South Salt Lake Library, July 1,5, 1980 'II "America's Newest Immigrants: Understanding the Peoples of Southeast Asia," a series of lectures, n Utah public schools, 1981

"The Chinese in America: An Historical Overview," Davis County School District, Apr. 7,1981

"Asian-American History," Davis County School District, June 8, 1981 "China Today," KWMS Radio Talk show, Jan. 22, 1982

"Afghanistan," "Historical Questions: Russian Imperialism-- Tsarist or Socialist?"Phil Alpha Theta, University of Utah, Feb. 3, 1982

"Asian Immigrants in America: Chinese to Indochinese," Davis COlffity School District, Feb. 9,1982

"The Indochinese Experience in the U.S.," Davis County School District, June 23,1983

"Gandhi and Human Values," Workshop on "Teaching Values through the i Humanities," Utah Council for Humanities Education, Brigham "'1!roung

University, Apr. 13,1985

"U.S. Food Policy since World War II," a series of three talks for a panel on

"Utah in a Hungry World," Utahns against Hunger, Provo, Salt Lake City and Ogden, May 23, 28 and 30,1985

"Asian-Americans in the U.S.: A Historical Overview," Davis County School District, Jan. 28, 1986 :

"The Asian-American Experience," Davis County School District, Apr. 29, 1~86 "An Overview of the Chinese-American Experience," panel on "In our Time," Oral History Institute and the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, May 4, 1986

"Asian/Pacific American: Ascending Force of the 1980s," Panel discussion,

~,: University of Utah, May 9,1986 i "East Indians in the United States," India Students' Association, University 0 Utah, May 17, 1986

"Asian-Americans in Utah," Davis County School District, Feb. 17, 1986 i "Immigrants and Refugees: The Asian-American Experience," Davis Count~

School District, Jan. 26, 1988

"The Diversity of China," YMCA-Utah State Office of Education Annual

IWorkshop, Salt Lake City, Feb. 3, 1988 "Traditional China: Setting the Stage" and "The Demise of Traditional China:

and the Onset of Revolution," Salt Lake City, Nov. 5, 1988 " "China in Transition," United Nations Association of Utah, Salt Lake City, Fbb. 28, 1989 r "The Current Crisis in China," Oct. 17,1989, American Association of II

University Women, Salt Lake City, Utah Branch I In-Service Workshop on "Cultural Traditons of India," Jordan School District!

and Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City, Feb. 2-3, :L990 : Moderator, Panel on "Separate Journeys," Dance and the Humanities,

Repertory Dance Theater and the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, Nov. 3, 1990

"Gandhi and Mao in the Scales of History," Asian Awareness Week, BrighanJ Young University, Apr. 2,1993 i

"The History of China," Wasatch Front International Education Consortium j

on "The Pacific Rim: Contemporary Issues--Historic Roots," Snowbirq, Utah, June 23-25, 1993

"Contemporary China," keynote talk, "Windows to the East: China and I, Japan," Granite District International Education, Feb. 25, 1994 "

"Gandhi in the Scales of History," Center for Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Apr. 7, 1994

"The Debate over History Standards," Center for Teaching & Learning 11 Excellence, University of Utah, Feb. 24, 1995

"Construction of Identity in Other Societies," LEAP Forum, University of Utah, Feb. 28, 1996

"India: The First Fifty Years," Utsav '97, l!niv~rsity of Utah, Sept. 29,1997 II "Contemporary ChIna," Weber State UnIVersIty, Nov. 1997 II