Email: ballra@bc.edu
Education:
BA, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas)
MA, Boston College (Boston, MA)
Research Interests:
My work is on the impact of Partition on the city of Bombay and the formation of Hindu and Marathi nationalist groups in the city, particularly the Shiv Sena. More generally, my research interests are urban history, religion and nationalism.
Fellowships:
American Institute for Indian Studies Language Fellow 2009-2010
University Fellowship, Boston College 2006-2011
Conferences:
October 2008
“Bombay Divided: New Perspectives on Partition and Urban Change,” Texas Asia Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
March 2007
“Ladies in Red: Women, Communism and Labor Unions in Early Twentieth Century Bombay,” Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
February 2007
“Cyclical Memory: The Shaping of Memory and Identity through the ‘Saffronization’ of Textbooks in India,” Transgressing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, 19th Annual Stony Brook University Graduate English Conference, New York City, New York
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