Faculty

Talbot, Cynthia
Associate Professor

Office: GAR 3.106
Office Hours: On leave Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
ctalbot@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1988, University of Wisconsin

Research interests:
Social and cultural history of medieval and early modern India (ca. 1000-1750); historiography and historical memories, Hindu-Muslim relations.

Courses taught:
History of India to 1750; also world history to 1500.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: South Asia

Thematic Field(s): Medieval and Early Modern Worlds; Visual and Material Cultures

Awards/Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008-2009
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
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1992-1993


Recent Publications:
Professor Talbot is the author of Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (2001) and co-author, with Catherine B. Asher (University of Minnesota), of India Before Europe (2006). She is currently working on a book on historical traditions relating to the twelfth-century Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan.