Zoë Woodbury High

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Cohort Year: 2017
Subject Area: Urdu
Research Interests: Early modern South Asia; history of emotions; Persian, Urdu, and Kannada language and literature
Education: MA, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2017. BA, Barnard College, 2015.

Biography

Zoë’s research focuses on the movement of people and commodities between the Deccan and the broader Indian Ocean world. Her dissertation will focus on poets and scholars writing at the early modern court of Bijapur, who developed new notions of style and taste through participation in these networks.

Research Interests

Early modern South Asia; history of emotions; Persian, Urdu, and Kannada language and literature

Workshops

Co-organizer of the Fourteenth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago, February 2017

Teaching Experience

  • South Asian Civilization I: India After Globalization (Teaching Assistant, Autumn 2019)
  • South Asian Civilization III: India Before Europe: Histories of Place (Teaching Assistant, Autumn 2019)

Education

MA, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2017

BA, Barnard College, 2015