Assistant Professor of History Lisa Trivedi is one of six faculty to have been awarded a Fulbright Senior research Fellowship to India for 2004-2005. Trivedi will conduct nine months of research in Bombay, Ahmedabad and New Delhi for her project "Bound By Cloth: women textile workers in Bombay and Lancashire, 1860-1940." The Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad to 140 countries each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
In conducting her research, Trivedi will investigate modern industrial life in the two major mill cities of the British Empire through a study of working conditions, consumption patterns, and family and community relations. With additional support from the Dean of the Faculty's Office, she also hopes to preserve a rare working-class newspaper, "Majoor Sandesh," or "Workmen's News." The Textile Labor Association, one of India's largest and most influential textile associations, produced the newspaper, which will be a major source for her study.
Earlier this year, Trivedi was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. In 1961, the institute was founded to improve the field of Indian studies at major colleges and universities within the United States. The Institute selects only 35 academics from all over the world to participate in the program each year.
