Christopher_Chekuri

Christopher Chekuri

Associate Professor
Phone: (415) 338-7541
Email: cchekuri@sfsu.edu
Location: Humanities Building Room 239
Office Hours:
Tue: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Thu: 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

My research interests include the study of states and families, early modern empires in the Indo-Islamic World, comparative colonialisms and nationalisms, modern Telugu literary criticism and globalization.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:

  • India and the British Empire
  • India since Gandhi
  • Classical Forms of South Asian Culture
  • The University: Promise and Politics

Graduate:

  • Decolonizing History
  • History beyond Nation
  • Historiography of World History

Research Interests

  • Politics of empire in precolonial India
  • Identity and cultural modernity in Telugu literature

Selected Publications

Books:

Book Manuscripts under preparation:

  • The Men Who Would Be King: The Nayakas of Vijayanagara, 1480-1620.
  • A translation with critical commentary of the Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Charitra, a 17th century Telugu court chronicle produced in Tanjavur, India.