About
Amitava Chowdhury is a historian and historical archaeologist of agrarian labour regimes and colonial plantations in the British Caribbean and the Indian Ocean and is interested in the meaning and theory of Global History and diaspora theories. He is particularly interested in issues of identity, nationalism, and diaspora formations of the Indians overseas. Previously, between 2001-2004, Dr. Chowdhury worked on the historical archaeology of colonial Mauritius, and two of his excavated sites, Aapravasi Ghat and Le Morne Brabant, were subsequently inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He has also published several works on the history and archaeology of fugitive slaves in Mauritius and the Caribbean. He is a former Fellow of the Weatherhead Initiative in Global History at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard 카지노게임사이트.
Dr. Chowdhury is a Director of the Global History Initiative at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트.
Selected Publications
Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice
McGill-Queen's 카지노게임사이트 Press
2016
Other Books
- 2003. Aapravasi Ghat: Past and Present: Archaeological Investigations. Port Louis, Mauritius: Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund. ISBN: 9990373108.
- Becoming Indian: Indentured Labor and Identity in the British Empire (completed manuscript, forthcoming).
Chapters and Articles
- 2019. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Inequality and the Future of Global History: A Round Table Discussion.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 3 (2019): 53-81. (with Julia McClure, Sarah Easterby-Smith, Norberto Ferreras, Omar Gueye, Meha Priyadarshini, Steven Serels, and Jelmer Vos).
- 2016.카지노 게임 컬렉션Between Dispersion and Belonging: At Home in the Diaspora.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2016.
- 2016.카지노 게임 컬렉션The Diaspora Symptom: Global Projection of Local Identities.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2016.
- 2016. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Narratives of Home: Diaspora Formations Among the Indian Indentured Labourers.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2016.
- 2016.카지노 게임 컬렉션Diaspora as Global History.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2016.
- 2016.카지노 게임 컬렉션Maritime Marronage and Trans-imperial Diplomatic Consequences of the British Emancipation, 1834-1848.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In 카지노 게임 컬렉션Abolitions카지노 게임 컬렉션 as A Global Experience edited by Hideaki Suzuki, pp. 149-160. Singapore: National 카지노게임사이트 of Singapore Press, 2015.
- 2014. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Maroon Archaeological Research in Mauritius and its Possible Implications in a Global Context.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In Lydia Wilson Marshall, ed. The Archaeology of Slavery: Toward a Comparative Global Framework. (CAI, Southern Illinois 카지노게임사이트, Carbondale, 2014).
- 2014. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Le petit marronnage comme processus d'adaptation épisodique dans l'île Maurice : les données relevées sur le terrain et leur pertinence globale.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In Archéologie de l카지노 게임 컬렉션esclavage colonial edited by André Delpuech and Jean-Paul Jacob, 261-273. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, Paris, 2014.
- 2012. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Exploring an 카지노 게임 컬렉션old verbal ambiguity카지노 게임 컬렉션: East Indian ethnicity and identity in Trinidad and the British Caribbean.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 37, no. 73 (Spring 2012): 209-220.
- 2007. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Marronage in Mauritius and its possible implications for Caribbean Archaeology.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Proceedings of the Twenty-first congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Volume 2, pp. 567-572. (with Candice Goucher)
- 2006. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The symbolic and archaeological significance of Le Morne Brabant: A fugitive slave site of Mauritius.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology 3: 50-61.
- 2005. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Handedness: The archaeological record.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Man and Environment 30 (2): 90-96. (with Manas K. Mandal)
- 2003. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Towards an Archaeological Heritage Management of Aapravasi Ghat.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Journal of Mauritian Studies, New Series Vol. 2 (1): 87-104. 2003. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Theoretical Reflections on Maroon Archaeology in Mauritius.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Revi Kiltir Kreol. Vol. 3: 55-59.
- 2003. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Theoretical Reflections on Maroon Archaeology in Mauritius.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Revi Kiltir Kreol. Vol. 3: 55-59.
Short Articles and Occasional Writing
- 2020. "Looking Back and Forward카지노 게임 컬렉션Developments, Challenges, and Visions for the Future of Global History카지노 게임 컬렉션 , Toynbee Prize Foundation -
- 2016.카지노 게임 컬렉션British Indian Ocean Empire,카지노 게임 컬렉션 in John MacKenzie ed. Encyclopedia of Empire, pp. 315-321. Wiley Blackwell.
- 2013.카지노 게임 컬렉션Looking Back and Moving Forward카지노 게임 컬렉션Reflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies카지노 게임 컬렉션Jamaica as the prototypical transnational space: Conversations with Orlando Patterson and Birte Timm.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 38, no. 2 (fall 2013): 325-336.
- 2008. 'Indentured labor' in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Volume 3, 93-95.
- 2008. 'Coolie Trade' in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Volume 2, 339-341.
- 2008. 'Diasporas: An overview' in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Volume 2, 510-13.
- 2008. 'Slavery: Antislavery in Britain' in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Volume 7, 23-25
- 2008. 'Slave Trade: Abolition in Britain' in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Volume 7, 35-37.
- 2007. 'Marronage in Mauritius' in Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Edited by Junius P. Rodriguez. Volume I, pp. 313-315. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Research groups and workshops organized
- 2020. Global Histories of Colonialism, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트, Global History Initiative, November 2020.
- 2019. Violence in a Connecting World, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트, Global History Initiative, March 2019.
- 2017. Global History Initiative, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트, Inaugural Conference, April 2017.
- 2013. Queen's 카지노게임사이트 Initiative on Diaspora Studies. Inaugural Workshop, September 2013.
- 2013. Canadian Caribbean Studies Research Group. Inaugural Workshop, March 2013.
- 2011. Queen's 카지노게임사이트 Symposium on Oceanic History, March 2011.
Editor of Journal Special Issue
- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, volume 38, issue 76. Autumn 2014.
Awards and recognition
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 for Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice. McGill-Queen's 카지노게임사이트 Press, 2016 (co-edited with Donald H. Akenson).
Teaching Excellence Award, Department of History, 2012.
Graduate supervision
- Non-Hispanic Colonial Caribbean (18th-20th centuries
- British Colonial History (19th-20th centuries)
- South Asian Diasporas
- Global History
- Indian Ocean
