Faculty

Barbara N. Ramusack           
Charles Phelps Taft Professor
Fields: Modern South Asia, Women’s History

Phone: 513-556-2140
Email: Barbara.Ramusack@uc.edu
Office: 320B McMicken Hall

Professor Ramusack received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 1969 and has been teaching at the University of Cincinnati since 1967. While she teaches courses on South Asia from Mohenjo Daro to the present, her primary research interests are in the princely states, women’s issues and maternal and child health during the colonial period. She has worked extensively in archives throughout India and in the United Kingdom where her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright programs, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has also served two terms as Director of Graduate Studies and one term as Head in the UC Department of History and as Chair of the Taft Faculty Executive Board.

Selected Courses:
Asian Civilizations:  India
Twentieth Century South Asia
Women in India and China
Empire, Nationalism and Film in India
Mahatma Gandhi:  Reformer or Revolutionary,
Politician or Saint?

Selected Publications:
“Authority and Ambiguity:  Medical Women and Birth Control in India,” in Sarah Hodges (ed.), Reproductive Health in India:  History, Politics, Controversies, (Orient Longman, 2006).

The Indian Princes and Their States, Part III, Volume 6 in the New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge University Press, 2004 [Paperback edition for South Asia, 2005])

With Sharon Sievers, Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (Indiana University Press, 1999, cloth and paperback)