
Shaunna Rodrigues
@Shaunnaroder
Empires and Classification| Anticolonial Ethics | AI. Lecturer, Core Curriculum @Columbia. Writing on intelligibility, progress, constitutionalism, self-respect
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Very excited to receive this new book by @KuipersNicholas. Using an impressive mix of methods, and drawing on a range of cases from Asia, Nick examines how unequal bureaucracies can impede the complex task of nation building. A must read!

Job! Thanks to a generous donation from anonymous donors and matching funding from UNSW, we are advertising for 2 x two-year postdocs in History. Any region. Any period. Any method. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5355… Connection to Australia or NZ, via residency or education is required.
A wonderful start to this year's Global Intellectual History seminar yesterday, with a paper by Yu Sakai. Do check out our lineup for the rest of the term!

Mahmood's Mamdani's new book (just released from @Harvard_Press) is an account of the fate of postcolonial Uganda, intertwined with a intellectual and political autobiography.



An arresting portrait of Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi features in my @frontline_india article on the Self-Respect Movement. I identify the Mahakavi and other important thinkers & reformers as those who created an environment for the Self-Respect Movement to germinate.

PERIYAR'S LASTING LEGACY | The century of self-respect A hundred years later, the Self-Respect Movement’s ideals of equality, women’s liberation, and the annihilation of caste are finding new geographies. @KRManoharan writes. frontline.thehindu.com/social-issues/…
#econtwitter PUBLICATION ALERT! My article, written with my esteemed co-authors Somdeep Chatterjee and Elisa Taveras, has been accepted at a category A journal: The European Journal of Political Economy! doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpo…

Why countries trade with each other while fighting: Prof. Mariya Grinberg’s new book, “Trade in War," examines the curious phenomenon of economic trade during military conflict. news.mit.edu/2025/why-count… @MIT @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @MIT_SSP

my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26 uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029575…

Modernity comes in many forms. For Dar ul-Ulum Deoband related scholarship see, 1. Barbara Metcalf, Islamic Revival in British India 2. Qasim Zaman, The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change 3. SherAli Tareen, Defending Muhammad in Modernity [1/2]
Please join us to center community experiences and their fight for justice after the Baghjan oil blowout 2020. Thank you @noihritgogoi and Sanjay Barbora for working on this document.
Together with community members and many engaged voices, Barbora, @DollyKikon, and I document what happened in Baghjan and what continues to unfold in "Our Burden of Grief". Please join us for the online book launch! Link: ucsc.zoom.us/j/94376561972?…

The Radiance of Tamil is out! This @OrientBlackSwan volume is a landmark contribution to global Tamil Studies. My chapter "Is this a Sudra Critique? #Periyar and the Intermediate Castes" features among other brilliant works. Get your copies! orientblackswan.com/details?obsin=…

hindustantimes.com/opinion/imprin… with @OrnitShani Assembling India's Constitution maps how "the most intense public struggles were over the Constitution’s potential to radically change the social order based on caste"
Legal philosopher David Lyons @BU_Law: "It appears reasonable to conclude that a legal system does not automatically merit the respect that we might give it by our obedience. Law must earn that respect."

I wrote for the @BostonReview about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

Delighted to announce that my new book is on its way! “India After Nonalignment” will be published by the Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C. Penguin Random House will publish the South Asia edition. Here’s the cover! It will hit the shelves early next year.

A book review of @tarunkhaitan and my work, 'Hum Bharat Ke Log' has been published by the Wire. Thank you, Aditya for your deep engagement with the book. thewire.in/books/taking-t…
I now have a free stop in Munich on Oct 23 in addition to my ticketed one Oct 24! Huge thanks to Sheila Beladinejad @women_in_ai who pulled together the venue & resources to host me. RSVP: amerikahaus.de/ausstellungen-…. Check it my latest tour information: empireofai.com/#tour.
The EMPIRE OF AI fall tour has new stops! My site now lists all of my public events through the rest of the year. Some require tickets. Most are free with required registration. Review the details and reserve your seats here: empireofai.com/#tour. See you soon!

From Postcolonial to Muslim Worlds? Xiaoyue Yasin Li examines the egalitarian ideas and practices of Gamal al-Banna (1920–2013) during Egypt’s transition from postcolonial socialism to neoliberal Islamic revival bit.ly/4nkan00
Thanks! Copies available in India now
Broke for the next month, but worth it.

In the latest issue of @epw_in, I write about the tension between academic and public history in India. I offer some ways to understand this tension in a productive way by examining the place of archives and methods in historical writing. Take a look: epw.in/journal/2025/3…
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The Double Life of History
It is not surprising that the public and the academic life of history should exist in tension. The proliferation of historical information through the internet and social media has made this tension...
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