Mrinalini Sinha


Mrinalini Sinha is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor in the Departments of English and Women's Studies of the University of Michigan. She writes on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism and on gender. She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014–2015. She is the recipient of the 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has served, and continues to serve, on the editorial board of several academic journals, including the American Historical Review, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Gender and History, and Indian Economic and Social History Review, History of the Present.

Education

She got her Master's degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, United States.

Major publications