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Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Hameeda Hossain
Unknown
2
Sheetal Chhabria
Connecticut College
3
Martin J. Bayly
London School of Economics and Political Science
4
Yousuf Al‐Bulushi
University of California, Irvine
5
Mary Brownell
Miller College
6
Tim Livsey
Northumbria University
7
Firoozeh Kashani‐Sabet
University of Pennsylvania
8
Raphaëlle Khan
City College of New York
9
Nimrod Ben Zeev
Tel Aviv University
10
Arlena Buelli
University of Bologna

Rising Stars Papers

1
Who Is an Indian? Searching for an Answer to the Question at the Core of Federal Indian Law
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform|2025
22 cit.
2
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations|2024
2 cit.
3
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Studies Quarterly|2025
2 cit.
4
The Empire Cites Back: The Occlusion of Non-Western Histories of International Relations and the Case of India
International Studies|2024
1 cit.
5
Class Evasion: Cedric J. Robinson on Postcolonial Studies
Polity|2025
1 cit.
6
The Other Fight: Women's Suffrage and Iran's Oil Nationalization
International Journal Middle East Studies|2024
0 cit.
7
Rethinking ‘Late Colonialisms’ in Africa: An Introduction.
Itinerario|2025
0 cit.
8
: <i>Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land</i>
Environmental History|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
David Motadel
London School of Economics and Political Science
2
Yoav Di‐Capua
The University of Texas at Austin
3
Lee‐Ann Monk
La Trobe University
4
James Waghorne
The University of Melbourne
5
Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
6
Sarah Miller-Davenport
Columbia University
7
Aditya Sarkar
Bankura Sammilani Medical College
8
Roger Ball
University of the West of England
9
Timothy Seidel
Eastern Mennonite University
10
Shelby B. Scott
University of Denver

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
How whiteness operates at a hispanic serving institution: A qualitative case study of faculty, staff, and administrators.
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education|2022
14 cit.
2
Sexual Minority Women, Health Care Discrimination, and Poor Health Outcomes: A Mediation Model Through Delayed Care
LGBT Health|2022
13 cit.
3
Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world
Postcolonial Studies|2022
11 cit.
4
Sexual Minority Women and Discriminatory Health Care Experiences: An Intersectional Evaluation Across Race and Ethnicity
Women s Health Issues|2022
11 cit.
5
Centering Asian American Women’s Health: Prevalence of Health Care Discrimination and Associated Health Outcomes
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities|2022
9 cit.
6
The Political Role of the Historian
Contemporary European History|2023
6 cit.
7
Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender and Nonbinary Relationships: Actor-Partner Associations with Relationship Satisfaction, Dyadic Coping, and Partner Support
LGBT Health|2023
5 cit.
8
Adaptations in dental public health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in municipalities of Southern Brazil: a grounded theory and collaborative research
Acta odontológica latinoamericana/Acta odontológica latinoamericana|2022
4 cit.
9
The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid‐20th‐century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice|2023
4 cit.
10
The Death Penalty in Barbados: Reforming a Colonial Legacy
International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy|2023
4 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Talal Asad
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2
Gillian Rose
University of Salzburg
3
Sudipta Sen
Indian Institute of Management Indore
4
W. Peter Ward
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5
Hugh Johnston
Simon Fraser University
6
René D. Flores
University of Chicago
7
Lawrence R. Pratt
Tulane University
8
Gyan Prakash
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar
9
Cindy Horst
Peace Research Institute Oslo
10
Gregory Clark
University of California, Davis

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1994
2.3k cit.
2
Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics
Progress in Human Geography|1997
2.3k cit.
3
Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials
Choice Reviews Online|2002
2.2k cit.
4
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
British Journal of Sociology|1974
1.9k cit.
5
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
Geographical Journal|1994
1.1k cit.
6
Theory of the hydrophobic effect
The Journal of Chemical Physics|1977
834 cit.
7
The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change
Journal of Historical Geography|1991
741 cit.
8
Taking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities and Subjectivities
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2000
626 cit.
9
The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209–2004
Journal of Political Economy|2005
623 cit.
10
Intention to buy eco-friendly packaged products among young consumers of India: A study on developing nation
Journal of Cleaner Production|2016
610 cit.

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