Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya promoted to Full Professor

The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (April 4) approved faculty promotions, including promotion of Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya to Full Professor. Promotions are effective with the 2025-26 academic year. 

Dr. Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian History at Purdue, having joined the Department of History in 2002. She received her PhD in History from the University of London in 2000. 

She is the author of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke University Press, 2024), The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005) and is the editor of the now classic study, Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto Press, 2017).  Her coauthored book includes the popular Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019) which has been translated in over 30 languages. She writes extensively on South Asian history, Marxist theory, gender, and the politics of Islamophobia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian Studies, South Asia Research, The Guardian, Jacobin, The Nation, and the New Left Review. She is on the editorial board of Studies on Asia and Spectre.

Dr. Bhattacharya teaches courses in South Asian history, Transnational Gender, Colonialism and Global History. Learn more about Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya at this link.

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