Ian Barrow: South Asia, Internationalization of Curriculum
Ian Barrow
Director of International Studies
on leave academic year
Phone: 802.443.2554
Email: ibarrow@middlebury.edu
Topics he can discuss include: - internationalization of the curriculum
- contemporary and historical South Asia
- women and gender in India
- imperialism and culture in India
Ian Barrow is an associate professor of history at Middlebury College. He is also director of the college's international studies program, which has as one of its goals to provide students a transnational and global context for their studies.
He teaches courses on Gandhi and the independence of India, and women and gender in India through the present day. He also specializes in the history of cartography.
His current research is on ‘assassination museums’ in South Asia, dedicated to post-independence leaders who have been killed. He is researching the history of the museums and how they display the lives of their subjects in their exhibits.
Recent publications include Making India, Drawing Territory: British Mapping in India published by Oxford University Press, 2003. He has published numerous articles and is completing a book manuscript on surveying in Sri Lanka during the nineteenth century.
Barrow graduated from Wesleyan University and received his master’s from University of Virginia and doctorate from University of Chicago.
