Tithi Bhattacharya

Promoted to Full Professor
Department of History
tbhattac@purdue.edu

Tithi Bhattacharya received her PhD from the University of London. She teaches courses in South Asian history, Transnational Gender, Colonialism, and Global History.

Bhattacharya is the author of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke University Press, 2024), The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005) and is the editor of Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto Press, 2017). Her coauthored book includes the popular Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019) which has been translated in over 30 languages. She writes extensively on South Asian history, Marxist theory, gender, and the politics of Islamophobia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian Studies, South Asia Research, The Guardian, Jacobin, The Nation and the New Left Review. She is on the editorial board of Studies on Asia and Spectre.