Susanne Rudolph
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Susanne Rudolph |
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| Major Areas of Interest: |
- Comparative Politics |
| E-Mail: | srudolph@midway.uchicago.edu |
| Phone: | (510) 526-3589 |
Susanne Rudolph is the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emerita and took her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1955. She has served as president of the Association of Asian Studies and of the American Political Science Association (2003-2004). She studies comparative politics with special interest in the political economy and political sociology of South Asia, state formation, Max Weber, and the politics of category and culture. Her books include Transnational Religion and Fading States; Education and Politics in India*; In Pursuit of Lakshmi: the Political Economy of the Indian State*; and Essays on Rajputana*. Rudolph also edited Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia.
Some recent articles include "The Imperialism of Categories; Situating Knowledge in a Globalizing World," in Perspectives on Politics, March 2005 , Volume 3, number 1; "Perestroika and Its Other," in Kristin Renwick Monroe (ed.), Perestroika! Revolution in the Social Sciences (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005); "Engaging Subjective Knowledge: Narratives of and by the Self in the Amar Singh Diary,"* in Rajul Bhargava Shubhshree (ed.), Of Narratives, Narrators (Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2004); "Toward Convergence," in Ian Shapiro and Donald Green (eds.) Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: Proofs, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004); "The Iconisation of Chandrababu; Sharing Sovereignty in India's Federal Market Economy,"* Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXVI, No 18, May 5, 2001; and "Living With Difference in India; Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context,"* Political Quarterly, July, 2000.
She served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division, Director of the Center for International Studies, Chair of the South Asia Center, and twice as chair of the Department of Political Science.
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Selected Publications:
- Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays: Gandhi in the World and at Home editor, with Lloyd Rudolph (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) [book cover];
- "US foreign policy for south Asia," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Economic and Political Weekly, February 25 - March 3, 2006, Vol XLI, No 8. pp. 703 - 709;
- "The Imperialism of Categories: Situated Knowledge in a Globalizing World," Presidential address, American Political Science Association, in Perspectives on Politics, 3(1) 2005;
- "Perestroika and Its Other," in Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, edited by Kristen Monroe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 12-20;
- "Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Sing's Diary Narratives of and by the Self Help Explain Identity Politics," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Perspectives on Politics, 1(4) December 2003;
- "Writing and Reading Tod's Rajasthan: Interpreting the Text and Its Historiography," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Circumambulations in South Asian History, edited by Jos Gommans and Om Prakash (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003);
- "The Coffee House and the Ashram: Gandhi, Civil Society, and Public Spheres," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Civil Society and Democracy: A Reader, edited by Carolyn M. Elliott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003);
- "South Asia Faces the Future: New Dimensions of Indian Democracy," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Journal of Democracy, January 2002, Vol XIII, No. 1: pp. 52 - 66;
- "Living with Multiculturalism: Universalism and Particularism in an Indian Historical Context," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenges in Liberal Democracies, edited by Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002);
- "Redoing the Constitutional Design: From an Interventionist to a Regulatory State," with Lloyd Rudolph, in The Success of India's Democracy, edited by Atul Kohli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
- "The Iconisation of Chandrababu: Sharing Sovereignty in India's Federal Market Economy," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Economic and Political Weekly (2001);
- "Living With Difference in India; Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context," with Lloyd Rudolph, in Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment, edited by Gerald James Larson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001);
- Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary -- A Colonial Subjects Narrative of Imperial India editor, with Lloyd Rudolph and Mohan Singh Kanota (Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) [book cover; review by Dane Kennedy; review by Jesse Palsetia];
- Transnational Religion and Fading States, editor, with James Piscatori (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997) [book cover];
- "Modern Hate: How Ancient Animosities Get Invented," with Lloyd Rudolph, in The New Republic, March 22, 1993 [cover];
- In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State, with Lloyd Rudolph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987) [book cover];
- Essays on Rajputana: Reflections on History, Culture, and Administration, with Lloyd Rudolph (Delhi: Concept, 1984) [book cover];
- Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity, editor, with Meghnad Desai and Ashok Rudra (Delhi & New York: Oxford University Press, 1984) [book cover];
- Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma, with Lloyd Rudolph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983) [book cover];
- The Regional Imperative: the Administration of U. S. Foreign Poliy towards South Asian States under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, editor, with Lloyd Rudolph (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980) [book cover];
- Education and Politics in India: Studies in Organization, Society, and Policy, editor, with Lloyd Rudolph (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972) [book cover];
- The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India, with Lloyd Rudolph (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1967) [book cover].
* Co-authored with Lloyd Rudolph.
