Research and Teaching Interests:
Lisa Mitchell is an anthropologist and historian of southern India. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include public culture and public space; the history of affect and emotion; technology, media and discourse networks; printing, knowledge production, and intellectual history; language and linguistic politics; colonialism and empire; nationalism; history and anthropology; Telugu language and literature; and South and Southeast Asia.
Her book, The Making of a Mother Tongue: Language, Emotion, and Collective Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Southern India, which will be published in 2008 by Indiana University Press, traces the emergence of language as a new foundational category for the reorganization of literary production, history-writing, pedagogical practices, and assertions of socio-political identity in southern India. It was a recipient of the American Institute of Indian Studies' Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities. She is currently working on a new book on "The Railway Station and the Street in the History of Public Space."

Courses for this term and next term:
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Education:

Oberlin College: Oberlin, Ohio	B.A.	1988
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign	M.A.	1993
Sociocultural Anthropology: Columbia University	M.Phil.	1999
Sociocultural Anthropology: Columbia University	Ph.D. (with distinction)	2004

•	Under Contract, The Making of a Mother Tongue: Language, Emotion, and Collective Identity in Colonial and Post-colonial Southern India, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
•	Under Review. "Knowledge at the Edge of Empire: Experiencing Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge," in Elizabeth Kolsky & Sameetah Agha, eds., Fringes of Empire.
•	"Making the Local Foreign: Shared Language and History in Southern India," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 16, No. 2: 229-248. 2006
•	"Parallel Languages, Parallel Cultures: Language as the Foundation for the Reorganization of Knowledge and Practice in Nineteenth Century Southern India," Indian Economic and Social History Review, special issue on "Language, Genre, and Historical Imagination in South India," Vol. 42, No. 4: 443-465. 2005
•	"An Attachment to Language: Biographical Narratives and the Telugu Language in Late 19th Century Southern India," in Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Cultures, Manas Ray, Ed., ENRECA Occasional Papers Series, Calcutta: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 73-96. 2003

•	Penn Humanities Forum Faculty Mellon Research Fellowship, 2007-2008.
•	Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2006.
•	Bowdoin College Faculty Fellowship, British Library, London, Summer 2004.
•	Freeman Foundation Asia Faculty Fellowship, India, Winter Break, 2003-2004.
•	American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship, India, 2002.
•	Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, India, 1999-2000.
•	American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship, 1999-2000 (declined).
•	Wenner-Gren Predoctoral Grant, India and London 1999-2001.
•	National Science Foundation Summer Research Training Grant, Hyderabad, Summer 1996.
•	American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellow in Telugu, Hyderabad, 1995-1996.

•	South Asia Studies
•	Anthropology
•	History