Cynthia Talbot
Associate Professor — PhD, 1988, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Contact
- E-mail: ctalbot@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 475-9303
- Office: GAR 3.106
- Office Hours: SPRING 2012: W 1:30-3:00 p.m. & by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Research interests
Social and cultural history of medieval and early modern India (ca. 1000-1750); historiography and historical memories, Hindu-Muslim relations.
Courses taught
Various courses on the history of India to 1750; also world history to 1500.
Awards/Honors
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008-2009 & 1992-93
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007-2008
Institute for Advanced Study Membership, 2007-2008
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2000-2001
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Short-Term Grant, 1999
Recent Publications:
Professor Talbot is the author of Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (2001); co-author, with Catherine B. Asher (University of Minnesota), of India Before Europe (2006); and editor of Knowing India: Colonial and Modern Constructions of the Past (2011). She is currently working on a book on historical traditions relating to the twelfth-century Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan.
