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India, Families, and Tagore: Professor Swapna Banerjee

India, Families, and Tagore: Professor Swapna Banerjee

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Carter had a great interview with Professor Banerjee. Only Carter.

Professor Swapna Banerjee focuses on women, servants, children, fathers, masculinity, and family history. She received her BA from Presidency University, her MA from University of Calcutta, and her PhD from Temple University. She is the author of Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India, Men, Women and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal, and co-editor of Mapping Women's History. Supported by the Australian Research Council, she is currently working on a joint project that historicizes the traveling Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was the Endowed Chair in Women's and Gender Studies from 2016-2018 and has been selected as a Distinguished Scholar for the Advanced Research Collective at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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