JUNED SHAIKH
Assistant Professor of History, UCSC

Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city in the 20th century. It explores the role of caste –more particularly the former untouchable or Dalit castes – in city planning, labor markets, trade unions, and the field of literature.
 

Fall 2014 Colloquium Series:

October 15: Bali Sahota

October 22: Vilashini Cooppan

October 29: Nirvikar Singh

November 5: Juned Shaikh

November 12: Dean Mathiowetz

November 19: David L. Clark

December 3: Terry Burke