Department of Anthropology

Gloria Raheja

612-625-8547
Anthropology Room 395 HHHCtr

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • cultural production in India (caste, gender and colonialism)
  • ethnographic history
  • the politics of representation
  • music and industrial capitalism in Appalachia

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Anthropology, The University of Chicago, 1985.
  • B.A.: Anthropology, Chatham College, 1971.

Publications

  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (In progress). Scandalous Traductions: Landscape, History, Memory.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (In progress). Logan County Blues: Frank Hutchison in the Sonic Landscape of the Appalachian Coalfields.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (In press). "A Splendid Thing for the Empire": Some Reflections on Ethnography and Entextualization in Colonial India. Man in India
  • (2003). Songs, Stories, Lives: Gendered Dialogues and Cultural Critique. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (2002). The Erasure of Everyday Life in Colonial Ethnography. Everyday Life in South Asia
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (1999). The Ajaib-Ghar and the Gun Zam-Zammah: Colonial Cartographies and the Elusive Politics of "Tradition" in the Literature of the Survey of India. South Asia Research, 19, 29-51.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (1999). The Illusion of Consent: Language, Caste, and Colonial Rule in India. Colonial Subjects: Essays in the Practical History of Anthropology, University of Michigan Press, 117-152.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (1997). Negotiated Solidarities: Gendered Perspectives on Disruption and Desire in North Indian Expressive Traditions and Popular Culture. Oral Tradition, 12, 173-225.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (1996). Caste, Colonialism, and the Speech of the Colonized: Entextualization and Disciplinary Control in India. American Ethnologist, 23(3), 494-513.
  • Ann Grodzins Gold (1994). Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India. University of California Press.
  • Raheja, Gloria Goodwin (1988). The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village. University of Chicago Press.

Creative Activities

  • Invited publications: The Guitarist, Minnesota Guitar Society
  • Co-producer and author of liner notes: Box set of CDs of music from 1920s Appalachian coal mining communities, from commercial and field recordings
  • Co-producer and author of liner notes: CD containing new recordings of the music of Frank Hutchison, a 1920s Appalachian coal miner and musician

Professional Activities

  • Director: Institute for Global Studies, U of MN , 1998 - 2001
  • Chair: Department of Anthropology, U of MN , 1993 - 1998
  • Editorial Board: South Asia Research
  • Editorial Board: Domains

Awards

  • Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 2005 - 2008
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Award for participation in NEH institute on Appalachian studies, June 2006
  • Department of Education Title VI Grant for National Resource Center, 2000 - 2003
  • American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 1996 - 1997
  • McKnight Research Award, 1993 - 1996
  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 1990 - 1993
  • Grant-in-Aid, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1988
  • Marc Perry Galler Prize for Most Distinguished Dissertation in the Divison of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1986

Courses Taught

  • America and Its Others
  • Colonialism and Culture
  • Culture and Society of India
  • Knowledge, Power and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies
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Last modified on December 24, 2008