Geoffrey Cook (Berkeley, CA)

Geoffrey Cook
P.O. Box 4233
Berkeley, California 94704  USA

phone: 510-654-9251
fax:   630-604-3690
email: GCook69833@aol.com

Description of work:

Appointments:

     Pakistan Education Foundation, 1995-1997.
     Research Associate, International Institute of India Studies/Montreal 1994-present.

Editorial Positions

     Correspondent, India Today(New Delhi), 1994-present.
     Editor, South Asia Monitor, 1993-present.
     Book Editor, India Post, 1994.

Academic Papers Presented
     
"Sir William Jones and the Problem of History"
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast meeting 
Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, June, 1997.

"La Politique: Sir William Jones in England and India"
26th Annual Conference on South Asia
University of Wisconsin - Madison
October 18, 1997.

"The Rise of Modern Hindu Self-Assertion and the Harappan Past: A
Contemporary Indian Socio-Political Perception of their Proto-Historic"
Association of Asian Studies
Washington, D.C.
March, 1998.

"Sir William Jones and the Creation of Indian Law" 
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast meeting
Whitman College
Walla Walla, Washington
June 20, 1998

 "The Picturesque and Sublime in India: The Poetry and Drawings of
Reginald Heber"
25th Annual Conference on South Asia
University of Wisconsin - Madison
October 19, 1996
	    
"How the Harappan Past is Viewed: Art Historian and
Archaeologist" (revised and expanded).
The Uses of Visual Evidence in the Study of South Asia Symposium
Triangle South Asia Consortium
North Carolina State University
January 27, 1996

"Sir William Jones and the Development of the English and
Indian Constitutions"
24th Annual Conference on South Asia 
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
October 20, 1995.

"Bishop Heber and the European Construction of Hinduism"
Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity & Literature
Santa Clara University
May 5, 1995.

"Reginald Heber and the Hindu-Christian Dialogue"
Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies
Claremont McKenna College
October 22, 1994    

"An Harappan Seal at Berkeley"
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast/The International Studies
Association.
The Monterey Institute of International Studies
October 29, 1993

"From India's coral strand / Reginald Heber & the Missionary Project"
22nd Annual Conference on South Asia
University of Wisconsin - Madison
November 6, 1993

"The Other's Stare: Europeans in Devgarh (Mewari) Painting, 1750-1850"  
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
Los Angeles, March 27, 1993

"How the Harappan Past is Viewed: Art Historian & Archaeologist"
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
The University of Arizona
October 23, 1992.

"The Poetry of High Imperialism: Sir Alfred Lyall and the British
Raj in India"
20th Annual Conference on South Asia
University of Wisconsin, Madison
November, 1991

"Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Medieval Sri Lankan Art"
The Berkeley Symposium
University of California / Berkeley
April 9, 1989

"The European Pattern Poem and the Tamil citra kavya"
Visuelle Poesie im Historischen Wandel Symposium
Herzog August Bibliothek
Wolfenbuttel, Germany
September 1, 1987


Academic Papers Published

"Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Medieval Sri Lanka Art",
Left Curve #15(1991), pp.75-81.

"The poetry of high imperialism: Sir Alfred Lyall and the British raj in
India. The Islamic monologues, International Journal of Indian Studies, Vol. 
3 (1993, pp. 70-83.)

"An Harapppan Seal at Berkeley", From Sumer to	Meluhha: Contributions to
the Archaeology of South and West Asia in  Memory of George F. Dales, Jr.,
Wisconsin Archaeological Reports, Vol. 3(1994), pp. 199-205.
Also available at http://www.harappa.com
     
"From many a palmy plain: Reginald Heber's Drawings", 
Indo-British Review: A Journal of History (Madras), 1994.

"Reginald Heber and the Hindu-Christian Dialogue", Hindu-Christian
Studies	Bulletin 9 (1996), pp. 31-35.

"From India's Coral Strand: Reginald Heber and the Missionary Project",
International Journal of Hindu Studies, (forthcoming, 1999).
   
"The Other's Stare: Europeans in Devgarh (Mewari) Painting, 1750-1850",
Indo-British Review: A Journal of History (forthcoming).

"The European Patterned Poem and the Tamil citra kavya"
Visuelle Poesie im Historischen Wandel
Herzog August Bibliothek(forthcoming).

"How the Harappan Past is Viewed: Art Historian and Archaeologist" South
Asia Review(forthcoming).

"The Sublime and Picturesque in Colonial India: The Poems and Sketches of
Reginald Heber. Sagar IV:1 (Spring 1997).
Also available at http://www.asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/sagar/sagar.main.html


Membership in Professional Societies

     Independent Scholars of Asia
     Independent Scholars of South Asia (ISOSA)
     Society for Christian Buddhist Studies
     Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
     Association for Asian Studies
     Fellow, International Center for Asian Studies
     Indo-British Historical Society
     American Oriental Society
     American Pakistan Research Association
     American Committee for South Asian Art
     War and Society in South Asia Group