Dr. Rajeshwari Dutt

Phone: 01905-237919, +91-862-797-4032
EMail: rdutt[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in
Address: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
IIT Mandi, PWD Rest House 2nd floor,
Near Bus Stand, Mandi - 175001
India

Research interests

  • Latin American history and culture
  • Indigenous and agrarian studies
  • Social and cultural history
  • Comparative India and Latin America

Education

  • Ph.D. in Social and Cultural History, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, (USA), 2012
    (Title: Managing the Interstices: Cacique Politics in Late Colonial and Early National Yucatán)
  • M.A. in History, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, (USA), 2007
  • M. Phil. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India (CSSSCAL), 2005
  • B.A. Franklin and Marshall College, PA (USA), magna cum laude, 2004

Work Experience

Research Experience
  • Doctoral dissertation research at Archivo General del Estado de Yucatan (AGEY) Merida, Mexico, 2009-Present
  • Research Assistant, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007-2008
  • Completed Research Training Program at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, 2005
  • Hackman Summer Research Fellow, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 2001-2002
Teaching Experience
  • Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Fall 2012- present
  • Instructor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2012
  • Head Teaching Assistant, World History Course, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010-2011
  • Teaching Assistant, World History Course, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-2008
  • Writing Tutor, Writing Center, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 2002-2004
  • Preceptor, First Year Seminar, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 2003
Other Experience
  • Cultural Advisor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, 2013
  • Member, Research Execom, IIT Mandi, 2013
  • Graduate student representative, Foreign Student Advisory Committee, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011-2012
  • Front desk, Merida English Language Library (MELL), Merida, Mexico, 2009
  • Student worker, Library preservations, archives and special collections, Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Franklin & Marshall, Lancaster, PA, 2000-2004
  • Curator, Exhibit of WWI posters in the Dana Gallery of the Phillips Museum Art at Franklin & Marshall, Lancaster, PA, 2002
Languages Known
    Bengali, English, Spanish, Hindi

Book

   Dutt, R. (2017).
   Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán (Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture).
   University of Oklahoma Press (9 March 2017)












Honors and Awards

  • Award for Excellence in Teaching, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, 2013.
  • Goldman Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012.
  • Junior Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005.
  • Undergraduate Research Award, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005.
  • The Frederick C. Schaeffer Prize in History, F&M, Spring 2004.
  • The Paul A. Mueller Summer Travel Award, F&M, Spring 2002.
  • The William Toth Memorial History Prize, F&M, Spring 2002.
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2004.
  • Phi Alpha Theta (International History Honors Society), Spring 2002.
  • Pi Gamma Mu (International Social Science Honor Society), Spring 2003.

Fellowships

  • History Non-teaching Departmental Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Fall 2011.
  • Graduate Small Project Help Funding (GuSH), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011.
  • Research year abroad departmental fellowship, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009.
  • Susan Householder Van Horn Scholarship, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009.
  • Global Scholarship, Franklin & Marshall College, 2000-2004.

Courses Taught

  • Technology and World History, IIT Mandi.
  • Mayan America, IIT Mandi.
  • Introduction to World History, IIT-Mandi, Spring 2013.
  • Research Methodology, IIT Mandi, Spring 2013.
  • Tribal India, Indigenous Latin America, IIT-Mandi, Fall 2012.
  • Indigenous Perspectives on Latin American History, CMU, Spring 2012.

Journal Publications

  • Dutt, Rajeshwari (2017). Business as Usual: Maya and Merchants on Yucatán-Belize border at the Onset of the Caste War. The Americas. Cambridge University Press, 74 (2)
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, (2014). Crossing Over: Caciques, Indigenous Politics and the Vecino World in Caste War Yucatán. Ethnohistory, Duke University Press, 61 (4).
  • Dasgupta, Rajeshwari (2008). Honor in Early Spanish America: A Case Study of Conquistadores in Sixteenth Century Tucumán. Hispanic Horizon, 26, 123-153.
  • Dasgupta, Rajeshwari (2006). Towards the "new man": revolutionary youth and rural agency in the Naxalite movement. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(19).

International Conferences

  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Hispanics and National Identity in Nineteenth Century British Honduras,” The British Scholar Society’s Britain and the World Conference, Austin, April 7, 2017.
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “British Merchants and Mayas in Caste War Belize” The British Scholar Society’s Britain and the World Conference, London, June 24, 2016.
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “British Merchants and Mayas in Caste War Belize” The British Scholar Society’s Britain and the World Conference, London, June 24, 2016.
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Teaching Across Cultures and Place: World History in the US and Indian Classrooms”, American Historical Association Conference, New York, January 4, 2015
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Comparative History as a Teaching Tool”, American Historical Association Conference, Washington D.C. January 2-5, 2014 (Presenter, Chair and Organizer of panel).
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Mayan caciques of Yucatán & the promises and dilemmas of the 1860s”, Primer Congreso Internacional: Los pueblos indígenas de América Latina, siglos XIX-XXI. Oaxaca, Mexico. October 28-31, 2013 (paper accepted)
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Revisiting Indigenous Agency: Life-Stories of Indigenous Mayan Leaders in 19th Century Yucatan”, Mid-Atlantic World History Association Conference, Baltimore, October 6, 2013
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Mayan Caciques in the Late Colonial and Early National Periods”, Invited talk at the Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, July 8, 2013
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Webs of Power: Cacique Politicization in Post-Independence Yucatán”, Latin American Studies Association Congress, Washington D.C., June 1, 2013 (upcoming).
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari, “Becoming Political: Mayan Caciques in Early National Yucatán”, Plenary talk (via skype) in Yucatan in PA Roundtable Conference at University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, March 1, 2013.
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari. “Crossing Over: Caciques, Indigenous Politics and the “Vecino” World in Caste War Yucatan” in Department of History Graduate Forum, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1, 2011.
  • Dutt, Rajeshwari. “Getting Personal: Caciques as Political Intermediaries in Colonial Yucatan”, in Yucatan in PA Roundtable Conference at Penn State University, State College, February 24, 2011.
  • Dasgupta, Rajeshwari. “Negotiating the Revolution: Hacendado Strategies in Yucatan in the early Twentieth Century” in Department of History Graduate Forum, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January 25, 2007.
  • Dasgupta, Rajeshwari. “Marxism and the World Stage: A Case Study of the dynamics of peasant-state relations in left ruled West Bengal.” Rethinking Marxism Conference, November 8, 2003 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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