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With DavidHardiman
Arnold co-founded the Subaltern Studies group of historians
of South Asia. His interest in “history from
below” led him into studies of the effects of
colonial power. Arnold received his BA degree from
the University of Sussex in 1968 and his D.Phil. in
history from University of Sussex in 1973. Relevant
publications include Colonizing the Body: State
Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century
India, (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1993); Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial
India, The New Cambridge History of India, III:5,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): The
Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape,
and Science, 1800-1856, (Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 2006).
Shankar Aswani is Associate Professor
of Anthropology at University of California at Santa
Barbara. Aswani received his BA from the University
of Miami in Marine Affairs / Anthropology in 1988
and his Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University
of Hawaii in 1997. In addition to his appointment
at UC Santa Barbara, (2000-present), Aswani is Senior
Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology,
University of Auckland, New Zealand. He did postdoctoral
work at the University of Auckland (1998-2000) and
in 2005 Aswani was awarded a grant from the Pew Fellows
Program in Marine Conservation for his project “Integrating
Social and Natural Science for Designing and Implementing
a Marine Protected Area Network in the Western Solomon
Islands.” Aswani has done fieldwork in the Solomon
Islands, the Marquesas, and the Hawaiian Islands.
Aswani’s work is widely published in such journals
as Human Organization, Environmental Conservation,
Current Anthropology, Ambio, Journal of the Polynesian
Society, and Asian Perspectives. Relevant
publications include: Shankar Aswani and M. Lauer,
“Incorporating fishermen’s local knowledge
and behavior into geographical information systems
(GIS) for designing marine protected areas in Oceania,”
Human Organization, 2006, 65 (1): 80-101: Shankar
Aswani and R. Hamilton, “Integrating indigenous
ecological knowledge and customary sea tenure with
marine and social science for conservation of bumphead
parrotfish (Bolbometopon muriacatum) in the Roviana
Lagoon, Solomon Islands,” Environmental
Conservation, 2004, 31 (1): 69-83; Shankar Aswani
and P. Sheppard, “The archaeology and ethnohistory
of exchange in pre-colonial and colonial Roviana:
gift, commodities, and inalienable possessions,”
Current Anthropology, 2003, 44: 51-78.
Antonio Barrera is Associate Professor
of History, Colgate University. He received his BA
from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá,
Columbia, in 1989 and his Ph.D. degree in history
from the University of California, Davis in 1999.
In the spring 2007 Barrera was an Andrew W. Mellon
Post-doctoral Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library
at Brown University. His research project was titled
“The Atlantic World and the Scientific Revolution.”
Barrera works in the history of 16th century science
in Spain and America, where his interests include
natural history, medicine, explorations, navigation,
and cosmography. Relevant publications include:
Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and
the Early Scientific Revolution (Austen: University
of Texas Press, 2006); "Local Herbs, Global Medicines,
“ Pamela Smith and Paula Findlen, eds., Merchants
& Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early
Modern Europe, (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp.
163-181.
Benjamin Elman is Professor of East
Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.
He received his BA degree from Hamilton College in
1968 and his Ph.D. degree in Oriental Studies from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1980. Courses Elman
teaches include undergraduate and graduate courses
in the social and cultural history of China, the history
of education in China, the history of science in China,
and the history of Jesuits in China. Elman has published
widely in the intellectual history of China and has
co-authored a textbook in world history. Publications
relevant to this workshop include “China and
the World History of Science, 1450-1770,” Education
about Asia, vol 12, #1, spring 2007, pp. 40-44;
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China,
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006); On
Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900,
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Fa-ti Fan is Associate Professor
in the History Department, State University of New
York at Binghamton. Fan received his Ph.D. degree
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999.
He serves on the editorial boards of Isis, Journal
of the History of Science Society and Metascience.
His course offerings for undergraduates and graduates
include Science and Technology in the Modern World,
World Environmental History, Landscape and the Historical
Imagination, and Nature and Empire. Relevant publications
include “Science in a Chinese Entrepot: British
Naturalists and their Chinese Associates in Old Canton,”
Osiris 18 (2003), pp. 60-78; “Science
and Informal Empire: Victorian Naturalists in China,”
British Journal for the History of Science 36
(2003), pp. 1-26; British Naturalists in Qing
China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter,
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Nancy Jacobs is Associate Professor
in the Department of History and Department of Africana
Studies, Brown University. Jacobs received her BA
degree from Calvin College in 1984 and her Ph.D. degree
in history from Indiana University in 1995. In 2003-04
Jacobs was a Fellow in the Program in Agrarian Studies
at Yale University, and in 1997-98 she had an International
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council
of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research
Council. Her undergraduate and graduate courses include
African Environmental History, People and Production
in South Africa, and African Women’s History.
Jacobs is on the Advisory Board of the Hill Center
for World Studies and her relevant publications include
“The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in Colonial
Twentieth-Century Africa,” Comparative Studies
in Society and History, vol 48, #3, May 2006,
pp. 564-603; “The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey
Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and Politics of Class
and Grass, American Historical Review, 108
(2001): pp. 485-507; Environment, Power, and Injustice:
A South African History, (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003).
Sheldon Pollock is The William B.
Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
at Columbia University. Formerly Pollock was George
V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor of Sanskrit
and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago. Pollock
received his BA from Harvard College in 1971 and his
Ph.D. degree in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard
University in 1975. Pollock directs the international
collaborative research project titled Sanskrit Knowledge
Systems on the Eve of Colonialism. In May and June
2006 he ran a Master Class on “Comparative Intellectual
Histories of the Early Modern World” at the
International Institute for Asian Studies in Leaden.
Relevant publications include The Language of
the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and
Power in Premodern India, (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2006); The Ends of Man at
the End of Premodernity, (Amsterdam: Royal Academy
of Arts and Sciences, 2005).
Damon Salesa is Assistant
Professor of history at University of Michigan. Salesa
received his BA and MA degrees from the University
of Auckland, New Zealand in 1996 and his D. Phil.
degree from Oxford University in 2001. Salesa was
born in New Zealand of Samoan and New Zealand parents
and he was the first Rhodes Scholar from the Pacific.
He is interested in the history of Pacific navigation
and is currently working on a history of inter-marriage
in the Victorian British Empire. Relevant publications
are "Samoa's Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of
Comparison," Ann Laura Stoler, ed., Haunted
by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American
History, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006);
"Travel-Happy' Samoa: Colonialism, Samoan Migration
and a 'Brown Pacific," New Zealand Journal
of History 2003, 37, no. 2: 171-88.
George Saliba is Professor of Arabic
and Islamic Science, Department of Middle East and
Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
Saliba received a master's degree in Semitic languages
and a doctorate in Islamic sciences from the University
of California at Berkeley. He has been a professor
at Columbia since 1979. In 2005-06 Saliba was appointed
as senior distinguished visiting scholar in the John
W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Saliba
has written broadly on Arabic science. Relevant publications
include Islamic Science and the Making of the
European Renaissance, (Cambridge: The MIT Press,
2007); “Rethinking the Roots of Modern Science:
Arabic Scientific Manuscripts in European Libraries,”
Occasional Paper, Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies,
Georgetown University, 1999; A History of Arabic
Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age
if Islam, (New York: New York University Press,
1994).
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