Sumathi Ramaswami

Biography

Sumathi Ramaswamy is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History and International Comparative Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.  She has published extensively on language politics, gender studies, spatial studies and the history of cartography, visual studies and the modern history of art, and more recently, digital humanities and the history of philanthropy.  Her recent writings on Gandhi include Gandhi in the Gallery: The Art of Disobedience (New Delhi: Roli Books) and the digital project B is for Bapu: Gandhi in the Art of the Child in Modern India (https://sites.duke.edu/bisforbapu/ ). She is currently working on a new project on educational philanthropy in British India.