Event
Kaplan Memorial Panel
Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University, Jessica Marie Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Rasul Miller, University of California-Irvine
Ananya Chakravarti and Jessica Marie Johnson “Imperial Entanglements: Kinship, Accommodatio, and Imagination of Self”
Registration: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlcOytpzgjGNcdDnItlkrMbjkbZRCQGy0b
Dr. Ananya Chakravarti is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University. Her first book, The Empire of Apostles: Religion, accommodatio and the imagination of empire in early modern Brazil and India (OUP, 2018) received an honorable mention for the Association of Asian Studies' Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, which recognizes the best first book on South Asia. She was recently awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete her next monograph, a history of the Konkan coast of India. She is also working on two projects that emerged from her teaching, the first an edited volume based on a pedagogical experiment entitled Archiving COVID-19 and the second a textbook of modern South Asian history co-authored with students. At the graduate level, Professor Chakravarti enjoys exploring theoretical paradigms that originate outside academia in the global North and thinking about the intersection of local and global scales of historical analysis with students.
Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora. She is the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). She is co-editor with Lauren Tilton and David Mmimo of Debates in the Digital Humanities: Computational Humanities. She is guest editor of Slavery in the Machine, a special issue of archipelagos journal (2019), and co-editor with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017). Her work has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, The Black Scholar, Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, American Quarterly, Social Text, The Journal of African American History, the William & Mary Quarterly, Debates in the Digital Humanities, Forum Journal, Bitch Magazine, Black Perspectives (AAIHS), Somatosphere and Post-Colonial Digital Humanities (DHPoco) and her book chapters have appeared in multiple edited collections.