Curriculum Vitae
DAVID LELYVELD
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PERSONAL Born June 22, 1941
EDUCATION
1974-75 University of California, Berkeley, Post-Doctoral
Fellow (Anthropology)
1975 University of Chicago, Ph.D. (History)
1967 University of Chicago, A.M. (History)
1963 Harvard College, A.B. magna cum laude (History and Literature)
1955-58 The Bronx High School of Science
CURRENT RESEARCH
The Fate of Hindustani: Language, Colonialism and
the Nation
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2002- Associate Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences,
William Paterson University
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
1997- 2002 Executive Director, Mario Einaudi Center
for International Studies, Cornell University
1997-99 Visiting Professor (occasional), École des Haute
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1995-96 Program Officer, South Asian and South East Asian Studies,
Social Science Research Council
1995 Adjunct Lecturer, Honors Program, Hunter College
1986-95 Dean of Students, School of General Studies; lecturer,
Departments of History and Middle East Languages and Cultures,
Columbia University
1992-93 Acting Associate Dean, School of General Studies, and
Director of Reid Hall Programs in Paris
1991 Visiting Lecturer, History and South Asian Studies, University
of Washington, Seattle
1977-85 Associate Professor (tenured), Departments of History
and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota
1985-86 Senior Program Associate, The Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue,
New York, NY 10021--chief administrator of public education program
funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
1985-86 Research Associate, John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian
Studies, Harvard University--China-India Seminar
1983 Visiting Lecturer, Departments of History and Middle East
Languages and Cultures, Columbia
1975 Field Director, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan
1970-77 Instructor and Assistant Professor, Departments of History
and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota
1966 Instructor, Peace Corps Training Program, University of Chicago
1963-64 Fulbright Tutor, English Department, Madras Christian
College (India)
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Fulbright Fellowship, India (1963-64)
Shaw Fellowship in History, University of Chicago (1964-65)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship in Hindi-Urdu, University
of Chicago (1965-67); University of Wisconsin (Summer, 1965);
University of Rochester (Summer, 1970)
Foreign Area Fellowship Program (1967-69)
Social Science Research Council Training Fellowship in Sociolinguistics,
University of California, Berkeley (1974-75); SSRC Research Fellowship,
1982
Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies
(1979, 1982)
Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
(1986)
Senior Research Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment
for the Humanties (Fall, 1996)
LANGUAGES
English, French, Hindi, Urdu (advanced level);
Arabic, Persian, Hebrew (intermediate level)
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity
in British India (Princeton University Press, 1978); 2nd
ed. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996).
"Talking the National Language: Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani
in Indian Broadcasting and Cinema," in Sujata Patel, ed. Thinking
Social Science in India: Essays in Honor of Alice Thorner
(New Delhi: Sage, 2002).
"Words as Deeds: Gandhi on Language," Annual
of Urdu Studies (2001); also in Competing
Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar
Ali Engineer, edited by Paul
R Brass and Achin Vanaik (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2002).
"Macaulay's curse: Sir Syed and Syed Mahmood,"paper
presented at the Association for Asian Studies meetings, Washington,
DC, March 1998. Published in Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: A Centenary
Tribute, ed., Asloob A. Ansari (New Delhi: Adam Publishers,
2000).
"Modern India," in Ainslie T. Embree and Carol
Gluck, eds.Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for
Teaching (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp, 1997).
"Upon the Sub-dominant: Administering Music on
All-India Radio," Social Text 39 (Summer 1994); in C.
Breckenridge, ed. Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a
South Asian World (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1995).
Section Editor (South Asia), AHA Guide to Historical
Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) (with
Sanjay Subrahmanyam).
"Zuban-i Urdu-i Mu'alla and the Idol of Linguistic
Origins," Annual of Urdu Studies (1994).
"Colonial Knowledge and the Fate of Hindustani,"
Comparative Studies in Society and History (October 1993).
"The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and
the Project of a National Language," in C. Breckenridge and P.
van der Veer, eds. Orientalism and the Post-Colonial Predicament:
Perspectives on South Asia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1993).
"Transmitters and Culture: The Colonial Roots of
Indian Broadcasting," South Asia Research 10, no. 1 (Spring,
1990).
"Fragments of a Public Sphere: Urdu Printing and
Oratory in the Nineteenth Century," paper presented for panel
"Is there a public sphere in India?" Association for Asian Studies,
Chicago, April 1990.
"The Passion of Salman Rushdie, " paper presented
to symposium on Freedon of Learning and Discussion in Asia and
the West, Columbia University, New York, March 1990
"Eloquence and Authority in Urdu: Poetry, Oratory
and Film," in Katherine Ewing, ed. Shari`at and Ambiguity
in South Asian Islam (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1988).
Associate Editor (South Asia), Encyclopedia
of Asian History (New York: Charles Scribner, 1988)
Contributing Editor (Medieval Islam), Sources
of the Indian Tradition, revised ed. (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988).
"Disenchantment at Aligarh: Islam and the Realm
of the Secular in Late Nineteenth Century India," Die Welt
des Islams: 22 (1984), pp. 85-102
"Urdu as a Public Language," in Peter Gaeffke and
Susan Oleksiw, eds., Systems of Communication and Interaction
(Philadelphia: South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania,
1981)
"Osmania's Urdu Textbooks," Osmania University
Silver Jubilee (Hyderabad, India, 1979)
"The Orient Expressed" (review of Edward Said's
Orientalism), In These Times (June 1979).
"Three Aligharh Students," Modern Asian Studies
9 (1975), pp. 227-240.
"The Campaign for a Muslim University, 1898-1920,"
Modern Asian Studies 8 (1974), pp. 145-189 (with Gail Minault).
Book reviews in the Journal of Asian Studies,
American Historical Review, Die Welt des Islams, Journal of theAmerican
Oriental Society, The New York Times Book Review,South Asia in
Review, Asian Student, Annual of Urdu Studies.
Encyclopedia articles in the Encyclopedia of
Asian History, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Encyclopedia of Religion,
Encyclopedia of the Modern Muslim World
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Advisory Board, FIRMS (Ford International Research
for Minority Students), the Leadership Alliance, 1999- 2001.
Board of Trustees, American Institute of Indian
Studies, 1997-2000.
Chair, Fellowhip Selection Committee, Consortium
of Area Studies Programs in the Middle East and South Asia, Smithsonian
Institute, 1994
Fellowship Selection Committee, Rockefeller Fellowships
on South Asian Islam, Research Triangle, North Carolina
Fellowship Selection Committee, American Institute
of Indian Studies, 1990-92
South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies,
1989-91
Board of Directors, Independent Scholars of South
Asia,1986-89
Board of Trustees, Tarakhnath Das Foundation, 1987-
Program Committee, 1987, Association for Asian
Studies
Book Review Editor (South Asia), Journal of Asian
Studies, 1983-86
Panelist, Media Programs, National Endowment for
the Humanities, May 1989
Consultant for Public Education Programs and author
of grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities,
The Asia Society, 1985
Organizer and lecturer, Outreach Project for School
Teachers, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, 1985-87
Selection Committees for Berkeley Urdu Language
Program inPakistan, 1976; Humphrey Fellowships (Institute for
International Education), 1987
Referee or reader for Journal of Asian
Studies, American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society
and History, Societas, University of California Press,Princeton
University Press, New England Universities Press, University of
North Carolina Press, McGraw-Hill, Carleton College honors papers,
National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposals, Minnesota
school curriculum development projects, McGill University (external
examiner), University of Florida Press
Lectures (selected): École des
Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), University of
Michigan, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, University
of British Columbia, Mt. Holyoke College, Johns Hopkins School
for International Studies, the Foreign Service Institute, Fashion
Institute of Technology, The Asia Society,Hunter College, Fordham
University, the University of Chicago, Clark University, University
of Texas (Austin),Fulbright orientations.
GRADUATE ADVISING
Supervisor for the following Ph.D. dissertations:
Patrick A. Roche, "The Paravas of the Coromandel
Coast" (1976)
Gregory Kozlowski, "The Muslim Law of Endowments
and British Legal Administration in India" (1980)
Catherine Asher, "The Architecture of Sher Shah
Sur: Form and Meaning" (l984)
Lynn B. Zastoupil, "J.S. Mill and the British Empire"
(1985)
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (Minnesota)
Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, 1975-77
Honors Program Supervisor, Departments of History
and South Asian Studies, 1975-77, 1980
Chairman, Committee on Community Service, South
Asia Department, 1977-78
Chairman, Library Committee, South Asian Studies,
1973-74
Member, College of Liberal Arts committees on IslamicStudies,
Marxist Studies, Third World Development Studies
Member, History Department Advisory Committee,
1975-77, 1983-84
Member, Selection Committees for posts in German
and EarlyModern European History
Member, Committee on Instruction, Department of
History, 1980
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (Columbia
- selected list)
Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President
for Administration, 1995
Presidential Task Force on Student Services, 1993-94
Vice President, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chapter
Chair, Earl Hall Advisory Committee, 1988-91
Chair, Committee on Instruction, GS, 1992-93
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
(*taught jointly)
Introduction to Writing History
Comparative History of Asian Civilizations*
History of South Asia (Mughal, Early Modern, Modern)
British Imperialism
The World and the West*
The Heritage of India (Humanities Program)
Islam and Nationalism
Hindustani Civilization
Social History of Modern India
Comparative History of the Family: the U.S. and
India*
Muslims in Modern Indian History
Introduction to Marxism*
Anti-Colonial Movements
Ideological Foundations of Israel and Pakistan
Gandhi
Western Images of India
Inequality
The Cinema in India
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (Honors Colloquium)*
The History of Who You Are (Honors Colloquium)*
The Historiography of South Asia (Proseminar)
The 1857 Rebellion (Proseminar)
Language and Communications in Modern South Asia
(Proseminar)
Colonial Epistomologies (Proseminar)
Language and Society in South Asia (Seminar)
COURSES TAUGHT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Graduate Seminar in the History of India and Pakistan
Religion and Society in Modern India*
Language, Literacy and Nationalism in Modern India
Islam in India
Colonialism and Underdevelopment*
Looking at India, 1200-1900 (at The Asia Society)*
Readings in Urdu Literature
Introduction to Middle Eastern and South Asian
Civilizations*
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Islam in South Asia
Islam, Language and Nationalism in South Asia (Seminar)
