Vijay Prashad (Trinity College)

updated: Wed, 28 Aug 1996

Vijay Prashad
Assistant Professor of International Studies
214 McCook Academic Building
Trinity College
Hartford, CT. 06106.


phone: 860-297-2815
email: vijay.prashad@mail.trincoll.edu

PhD, University of Chicago (1994): "Revolting Labor: The Making of the
Balmiki Community."  An anthropological history of a Punjabi untouchable
community from 1860 to 1960.

Current projects: (1) an introductory history of South Asians overseas (2)
an analysis of contemporary Indian history, 1937-1992.

Specialities:
Modern South Asian History, 1700-1990.
Asian American Studies.
South Asian Diaspora.
Contemporary History of the Third World, with emphasis on 'development' and
international finance institutions.
Gandhi, Martin Luther King and contemporary Gandhianism.