Mytheli Sreenivas

Assistant Professor
History and Women's Studies
365 Dulles Hall
614.247.8057
sreenivas.2@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Yale University, History (1994)
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, History (1996)
Graduate Certificate, University of Pennsylvania, Women’s Studies (1999)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, History (2001)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Sreenivas's research interests include modern South Asia, women's history, the history of sexuality and the family, as well as colonialism and nationalism.

Selected Publications
Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India (Indiana University Press, 2008)

"Conjugality and Capital: Gender, Families and Property under Colonial Law in India" (Journal of Asian Studies, 2004)

"Teaching about Other Women: Global Perspectives on Gender in the Classroom" (Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 2004)

"Emotion, Identity and the Female Subject: Tamil Women's Magazines in Colonial India" (Journal of Women’s History, 2003)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences for the manuscript of Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India, American Institute of Indian Studies (2006)

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1999-2000)

A.W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1998-99)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (1997-98)

McDonnell Douglas Traveling Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies (1993)

Mershon Project
Counting Indians: Population and the Body Politic, 1800-1970 (2009-10)