PhD., University of Chicago, 2012
M.Phil., University of Delhi, 2004
Modern South Asia (India), Histories of Environment and Plantation Labor, Literature and History, British Empire
Office: LT 803
Phone: 607-777-4738
Email: adey@binghamton.edu
'Plantation as Metaphor: Human Ecology and the Labor of Empire in Eastern India (Assam) 1840-1910', Theory and Practice of South Asia (TAPSA) Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2010
'Of Human and Natural History: Plantations Worlds, Capital and Labor in Eastern India (Assam) 1840-1910', Program on Global Environment Workshop (PGE), University of Chicago, May 2009
'Stories Told and Forgotten of the Young Men Who Came Out to Tea: Rethinking the History of Colonial Tea Plantations in India', International Conference on Writing New Histories of Modern India, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, January 2009
'Tea Plantation and Labor Conditions in India: Literary Representations, Public Debates and Colonial Control in late 19th and early 20th century', Twentieth Annual ECMSAS International Conference, University of Manchester, UK, July 2008
Review of Michael S Dodson and Brian A Hatcher, [eds.] Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia in Pacific Affairs (Winter 2012) [forthcoming]
Awards and Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2011
University of Chicago Century Fellowship and COSAS Grant, 2005-10
Nicholson Centre for British Studies Fellowship, 2009; 2011
Provost's Research Grant, University of Chicago, May 2008
Introduction to Modern South Asian History
Indian Ocean, Bodies, and Empire
