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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 University.
Dr. Chowdhury is a Director of the Global History Initiative at Queen鈥檚 University.
Selected Publications
Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice
McGill-成人大片 University 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. 鈥淚nequality and the Future of Global History: A Round Table Discussion.鈥 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.鈥淏etween Dispersion and Belonging: At Home in the Diaspora.鈥 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2016.
- 2016.鈥淭he Diaspora Symptom: Global Projection of Local Identities.鈥 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2016.
- 2016. 鈥淣arratives of Home: Diaspora Formations Among the Indian Indentured Labourers.鈥 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2016.
- 2016.鈥淒iaspora as Global History.鈥 In Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice edited by Amitava Chowdhury and Donald H. Akenson. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2016.
- 2016.鈥淢aritime Marronage and Trans-imperial Diplomatic Consequences of the British Emancipation, 1834-1848.鈥 In 鈥淎bolitions鈥 as A Global Experience edited by Hideaki Suzuki, pp. 149-160. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2015.
- 2014. 鈥淢aroon Archaeological Research in Mauritius and its Possible Implications in a Global Context.鈥 In Lydia Wilson Marshall, ed. The Archaeology of Slavery: Toward a Comparative Global Framework. (CAI, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2014).
- 2014. 鈥淟e petit marronnage comme processus d'adaptation 茅pisodique dans l'卯le Maurice : les donn茅es relev茅es sur le terrain et leur pertinence globale.鈥 In Arch茅ologie de l鈥檈sclavage colonial edited by Andr茅 Delpuech and Jean-Paul Jacob, 261-273. Paris: 脡ditions La D茅couverte, Paris, 2014.
- 2012. 鈥淓xploring an 鈥渙ld verbal ambiguity鈥: East Indian ethnicity and identity in Trinidad and the British Caribbean.鈥 Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 37, no. 73 (Spring 2012): 209-220.
- 2007. 鈥淢arronage in Mauritius and its possible implications for Caribbean Archaeology.鈥 Proceedings of the Twenty-first congress of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology, Volume 2, pp. 567-572. (with Candice Goucher)
- 2006. 鈥淭he symbolic and archaeological significance of Le Morne Brabant: A fugitive slave site of Mauritius.鈥 Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology 3: 50-61.
- 2005. 鈥淗andedness: The archaeological record.鈥 Man and Environment 30 (2): 90-96. (with Manas K. Mandal)
- 2003. 鈥淭owards an Archaeological Heritage Management of Aapravasi Ghat.鈥 Journal of Mauritian Studies, New Series Vol. 2 (1): 87-104. 2003. 鈥淭heoretical Reflections on Maroon Archaeology in Mauritius.鈥 Revi Kiltir Kreol. Vol. 3: 55-59.
- 2003. 鈥淭heoretical Reflections on Maroon Archaeology in Mauritius.鈥 Revi Kiltir Kreol. Vol. 3: 55-59.
Short Articles and Occasional Writing
- 2020. "Looking Back and Forward鈥擠evelopments, Challenges, and Visions for the Future of Global History鈥 , Toynbee Prize Foundation -
- 2016.鈥淏ritish Indian Ocean Empire,鈥 in John MacKenzie ed. Encyclopedia of Empire, pp. 315-321. Wiley Blackwell.
- 2013.鈥淟ooking Back and Moving Forward鈥擱eflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies鈥擩amaica as the prototypical transnational space: Conversations with Orlando Patterson and Birte Timm.鈥 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, Queen鈥檚 University, Global History Initiative, November 2020.
- 2019. Violence in a Connecting World, Queen鈥檚 University, Global History Initiative, March 2019.
- 2017. Global History Initiative, Queen鈥檚 University, Inaugural Conference, April 2017.
- 2013. Queen's University Initiative on Diaspora Studies. Inaugural Workshop, September 2013.
- 2013. Canadian Caribbean Studies Research Group. Inaugural Workshop, March 2013.
- 2011. 成人大片 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-成人大片 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
