Anupama Rao, associate professor (Barnard), specializes in the histories of gender, caste, and nationalism in South Asia, historical anthropology, political theory, law, human rights, and comparative colonialism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from the University of Chicago. Her publications include: Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism (2003); Violence and Vulnerability (special issue of Gender and History); Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, and The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India (forthcoming, University of California Press).