Malarvizhi Jayanth

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Cohort Year: 2011
Advisor(s): Wendy Doniger
Research Interests: Colonial History, Social Hierarchies, Abolition of Slavery, Tamil, and Malayalam
Education: M.A., University of Chicago, 2015

Biography

I study slavery, abolition, and lower-caste political mobilization and work with material in Tamil and Malayalam.

Research interests

Colonial History, Social Hierarchies, Abolition of Slavery, South India, Caste system, and Tamil and Malayalam languages.

Teaching Experience

  • ‘Power, Identity, Resistance I: An Introduction to Liberalism and its Critics’, (Instructor of Record, Autumn 2018)
  • ‘Slavery in South Asia’, (Instructor of Record, Winter 2015)

Education

M.A., University of Chicago, 2015