Faculty Directory
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Phone 831-502-7104
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 531
- 531 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Spring 2024, Mon 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon and by appointment
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
- Courses HIS 44: Modern South Asia, 1500 to Present; HIS 146A: Colonial South Asia 1750-1947; HIS 147C: South Asia in the 20th Century; HIS 147D: Intellectual History of South Asia; HIS 147: Imperial Sport: Cricket in South Asia; HIS 194P: Urban South Asia; HIS 194T: Worlds of Labor in Asia; HIS 204 C: Colonialism, Nationalism, Race; HIS194N: Urbanities in the Global South; HIS200: Theories and Methods
Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.
Research Interests
Modern South Asian social and cultural history, urban history, labor history, history of caste, Dalit studies, intellectual history, development studies, social theory, and agrarian studies
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A, University of Pune
Honors, Awards and Grants
Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor selected as a 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association
Visiting Research Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University (2021-22)
Committee on Research, Faculty Research Grant, UCSC (2020-21)
Dean's Medal for the Social Sciences , University of Washington, Seattle, 2011
Selected Publications
Shaikh, Juned. Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021); India Edition: (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2021)
Teaching Interests
Modern South Asia, Intellectual History, Colonial India, Urban History, Labor History
