Amanda Lanzillo
Amanda Lanzillo is a historian of Southasia, researching artisanship and experiences of labor, technology, and social change within Indian Muslim communities. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, she is working on a book tentatively titled 'Manufacturing Islamic Modernity: Muslim artisans and industrial change in colonial India'.
From cholera to coronavirus
How prisons in contemporary India continue to follow the colonial handbook.
Dec 14, 2020
The life and times of a British journal of Islam
How ‘Islamic Review’ became one of the most prominent journals of Islamic thought in the West.
Mar 18, 2019
Before empire
How should we read the Europeans who wrote about Southasia before colonial domination?
May 21, 2018
Latest Articles
The deep roots of Myanmar’s crisis
Can the history of Myanmar’s political economy help us make sense of the military coup?
The anatomy of Urdu
How the language of state-making in Pakistan contributes to the erasure of regional languages.
CNN in Myanmar, environmental crises, and Tibetan cinema
Southasiasphere podcast episode 06: Updates and analysis from around the region.
Translating a pandemic
The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
