

Professor Deepasri Baul has been awarded a Summer Faculty Fellowship from the Humanities Research Institute for her project “An Aversion to Progress: The Cultural Habitus of North Indian Caste-Histories.” Summer Faculty Fellowships provide resources to faculty members for research projects, course development, or professional development. Baul is a historian of modern South Asia specializing in urban history, property regimes, and religious politics. Her research analyzes how urban space is produced through the intersection of religion and property in late colonial Delhi.