Ananya Chakravarti

Dr. Chakravarti's work focuses on the intersection of global and local historical methods. Her interests lie in early modern South Asia, the Portuguese empire, colonial Brazil, history of religion and the history of emotions. She is also interested in building bridges between the archive, the classroom and public space. Her first book, The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India received an honorable mention for the Association for Asian Studies' Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize. A second monograph in progress focuses on the history of the Konkan coast of western India. Research for this project was supported by the American Institute for Indian Studies Senior long-term fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. Dr. Chakravarti is also a co-author of a forthcoming work on the global history of emotions and textbook for Routledge on the history of modern South Asia. Her teaching interests are in South Asian history at the undergraduate level, and historical methodology and theory at the graduate level.