Participant Info

First Name

Mitra

Last Name

Sharafi

City

Madison

State

WI

Zip Code

53706

Research Interests

legal history, South Asia

Willing to be contacted by the media

Yes

On the academic market

No

University

University of Wisconsin Law School

About Me

I’m a legal historian of modern South Asia, focusing on 19th and 20th-century India. I am trained as a lawyer and a historian. My first book was a study of law, religion, and minority legal culture. I am currently working on a book on forensic science in colonial India. I’m also writing articles on Indian law students at the Inns of Court (London), the forensic analysis of blood stains, and abortion in colonial India. I host South Asian Legal History Resources and Stationary Empire, and I blog for the Legal History Blog. For recent online interviews (written), here is my AHA Member Spotlight and XQs with Chapati Mystery. For audio, here is a New Books Network conversation about my first book. For video, here is a presentation I gave at Harvard Law School (15:30+).

Email

mitra.sharafi@wisc.edu