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Ketaki Pant is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College, specializing in the intertwined histories of South Asia and the Indian Ocean region from the eighteenth century to the present. Her research focuses on themes of capitalism, colonialism, migration, diaspora, and minoritization, and she employs a variety of methodologies including feminist studies and visual history. She has been awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, where she concentrated on migration and displacement in early modern and modern Asia. Pant’s pivotal works include her upcoming book, "Itinerant Belonging: Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism," which examines the historical connections through old merchant homes in Gujarat and their links to oceanic capitalism. Her publications have appeared in notable journals such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism, and she is actively engaged in new projects exploring feminist methodologies in the context of Indian Ocean capitalism and visual history.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Teaches courses on South Asian history and conducts research on the Indian Ocean, focusing on the impact of capitalism and colonialism.
Brown University •
Conducted research on migration and displacement in early modern and modern Asia.
Bucknell University •
Taught courses in history and engaged in research on transregional circulations of capital and labor.
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