Faculty

Minault, Gail
Professor

Office: GAR 3.118
Office Hours: Spring 2008: MWF 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1:30-2:30 PM
Phone:512-475-7214
gminault@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1972, University of Pennsylvania

Research interests:
19th and 20th century history of India, including religion and politics, intellectual and social history, and women's movements.

Courses taught:
Her major teaching fields are the history of India, Islam in South Asia, and women in Asia.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: South Asia, Middle East

Thematic Field(s): Empire and Globalization, Gender, Sexuality and Family, Religion and Culture

Recent Publications:
Professor Minault is the author of The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India (1982). She edited The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan (1981) and co-edited Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia (1982) and Abul Kalan Azad: A Religious and Intellectual Biography (1988). She has also translated Voices of Silence (1986). Her latest work is Secluded Scholars: Women's Education and Muslim Reform in Colonial India (1997).