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First Name
Amanda
Last Name
Lanzillo
Country
United States
State
NJ New Jersey
Affiliation
Princeton University
Website URL
amandalanzillo.com
Keywords
Artisanship, South Asia, Islam, Labor, Colonialism, Industrial Change, Technology History, Social History, Urdu, Persian
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PhD

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About Me

I am a historian of South Asia, interested in experiences of labor, technology, industry, and social change within Indian Muslim communities. My dissertation asked how colonial-era Indian artisans, including carpenters, stonemasons, and metalsmiths, negotiated both colonial claims on technological development and evolving local ideas about the Islamic heritage and history of their trades.

I hold a PhD in History from Indiana University, and from Fall 2020-Spring 2023, I will be a Costen Postdoctoral Fellow with the Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

Recent Publications

“Translating the Scribe: Print and vernacularization in colonial India, 1857-1915,” Comparative Critical Studies, October 2019; https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ccs.2019.0331

“Archival Research as Fieldwork: Reflections on small and under-utilized Indian archives,” Critical Asian Studies, March 2019; https://criticalasianstudies.org/commentary/2019/3/15/amanda-lanzillo-archival-research-as-fieldwork-reflections-on-small-and-underutilized-indian-archives

“The Life and Times of a British Journal of Islam,” Himal Southasian, March 2019; https://www.himalmag.com/islamic-review-ahmadiyya-amanda-lanzillo-2019/

“Printing Princely Modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely states,” South Asian Popular Culture, January 2019; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746689.2019.1565331

“Before Empire,” Himal Southasian, May 2018; https://www.himalmag.com/before-empire-sanjay-subrahmanyam-europes-india/

“The Politics of Persian Language Education in Colonial India,” Ajam Media Collective, January 2018; https://ajammc.com/2018/01/31/late-indo-persian/

Media Coverage
Country Focus
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
Expertise by Geography
Asia, India
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Colonialism, Labor, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Religion, Technology