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College of Arts and Sciences

Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

World History, History of South Asia, Modern Asian History, Indian Ocean World

Research areas

Maritime History, History of South Asia, Indian Ocean Trade, Merchant Networks, Maritime Labor

Education

B.E. (Computer Science), Madurai Kamaraj University, 2000

M.A. (Intl. Policy Studies), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, 2004

M.A. (History), University of Texas at Austin, 2010

Ph.D. (History), University of Texas at Austin, 2016

Professional experience

Researcher, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, CA, 2004-07.

ASIANetwork Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Asian History, Wabash College, IN, USA, 2016-17.

Memberships

American Historical Association, Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies, Forum for European Expansion and Global Interactions, Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2519

Dr. Sundar Vadlamudi

Assistant Professor

PhD in History, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Sundar Vadlamudi is a historian of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. His research areas include Islam in South Asia, Indian Ocean trade, economic history of South Asia, and socio-religious reform movements in India. His current research examines a community of South Indian maritime merchants during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He has educational and work experiences in the fields of computer science engineering and international policy studies. Prior to joining AUS, he taught at Wabash College (USA). He will offer courses on topics related to South Asia, the Indian Ocean World, and world history.

Publications

“Architecture of Early Warning at the U.N. based on Human Security Indicators.” In Human Security. Volume IV: Methodologies and Tools, edited by Taylor Owen, 215-238. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013.

(with Gary Ackerman), “The Case of Ramzi Youssef,” In Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century. Vol. 3: Lessons from the Fight Against Terrorism, edited by James J. F. Forest, 128-144. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.

“The U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.” In Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century. Vol. 3: Lessons from the Fight Against Terrorism, edited by James J. F. Forest, 103-127. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.

“Indo-U.S. Space Cooperation: Poised for Take-Off?,” The Nonproliferation Review Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 2005), 199-223.

Conference Presentations

“Patronage Networks and Religious Disputes: Muslim Socio-religious Reforms in British India and the Straits Settlements in the Early Twentieth Century,” 45th Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MARAAS) Conference at Towson University, MD, October 14-16, 2016.

“Taxation in British Penang: Transnational Migrants and Revenues in a Colonial Entrepôt in the Straits of Melaka, 1780-1840,” 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA. January, 7 – 10, 2016.

“Servicing an Entrepôt: Tamil Muslims and Shipping Services in Penang, 19th-20th Centuries.” World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 3-7, 2015.

“South Indian Maritime Merchants and British Subjecthood during the Napoleonic Wars,” 2015 Britain and the World Conference. Organized by The British Scholar Society, The University of Texas at Austin. April 2 – 4, 2015.

“Trading Shells: Chank Fishery in South India in the early 19th century.” Paper presented at the conference on Trade in Animals and Animal Products in the Indian Ocean World from early times to c.1900. Indian Ocean World Center, McGill University. October 23-24, 2014.

“Child Slaves and Apprentices: Slave Trade by Tamil Muslim Maritime Merchants in the 19th century.” Paper presented at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 16-19, 2014.

“European wars in the Indian Ocean: Indian Maritime Trade during the Napoleonic Wars.” Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 17-20, 2013.

“Daud Shah and Socio-religious Reform among Muslims in the Madras Presidency.” Paper presented at the Centers and Margins in South Asian Islam Conference. University of North Texas, March 11-12, 2011.

“Reinterpreting Jahangir-Jadrup Interactions.” Paper presented at the Texas Asia Conference. University of Texas (Austin), February 11-12, 2011.

“Islam and the Self-Respect Movement.” Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 14-17, 2010.

Awards and Honors

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Junior Research Fellowship, 2011-12.

Churchill Scholar (British Studies, University of Texas at Austin), 2011-13.

John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund Research Travel Award, 2013.

Forum for European Expansion and Global Interactions (FEEGI) Research Travel Award, 2013.

David L Miller and Mary H Miller Graduate Fellowship, Univ. of Texas (Austin), 2013-14.

Other creative/research

[Invited Lecture] DePauw University, Asian Studies Program. “Maritime trade in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” February 2017.

Review of What the Rest Think of the West Since 600 AD. Edited by Laura Nader. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015 in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 49:2 (2017): 194-95.

Review of Gauri Viswanathan. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. Published in October 2012. notevenpast.org.

Review of Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India. New York: Knopf, 2011. Published in June 2011. notevenpast.org.