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Professor of History, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityAparna Vaidik is historian of modern South Asia. She has previously taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC and University of Delhi. She was educated at Centre for Historical Studies, JNU; University of Cambridge, UK; and St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. She was the founding head of the Department of History at Ashoka University and winner of two major international grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and The British Academy. She was a visiting fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. She was the Chair of the Program Committee of the Association of Asian Studies, AAS-in-Asia Conference held in Delhi and has served was on the Board of Studies of Liberal Arts Program, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi and.
Vaidik has to her credit a diverse set of monographs, journal articles and book chapters in volumes on environmental history, labour history, history of Indian nationalism and revolutionism, the history of the Indian Ocean and its islands, and psychoanalytical history. Pedagogical innovation, curricular design, research supervision and mentorship of graduate and undergraduate students are the defining aspects of her teaching life. She has been part of the team that developed ‘india and me’ – a public pedagogy program; and has served as a subject expert on Committee for Preparing curriculum and training manuals for CBSE’s Centre for Excellence and for the Schools of Specialised Excellence Project. She is also involved in various Public History projects. These include the founding and membership of the Milli Consortium, a group of individuals and communities interested in nurturing and protecting archives; has worked as a consultant on a project run by the Delhi Art Gallery for curating a public exhibition at the New Delhi’s Red Fort ‘March to Freedom’; and served as an expert for historical ethnography for ‘Grand Trunk Road Heritage Project’ of the American Institute of Indian Studies.
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