Poonam Bala
Email: p.bala@csuohio.edu
Professor Poonam Bala, Ph.D. (Sociology, Commonwealth Scholar), University of Edinburgh (UK), did postdoctoral research at the Wellcome Institute/SOAS, University College, London, and at the University of Edinburgh, and an M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Recently appointed as Professor Extraordinarius at UNISA (South Africa), formerly Professor at Amity University, Faculty at the Delhi School of Economics (University of Delhi), Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at academic institutions in South Africa, Germany, Canada and Greece, she has lectured at Harvard University, University of Queensland and delivered the Distinguished Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari Endowment Lecture (India), and recently delivered the Key Note address at the first International Seminar on Medicine and Society in Colonial Bengal, Kolkata. Recipient of several national and international fellowships, she is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage), besides several edited and authored books/research articles. Her recent publications include (ed.with R.Viljoen) Epidemic Encounters, Communities and Practices in the Colonial World (Lexington) and Kayasth Encyclopedia (with U.Sahay). Her select publications include Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa (Routledge), Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts (Lexington), Learning from Empire (Cambridge Scholars), and Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century India (Lexington), amongst others. She was President of the First International Conference on Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine (Greece),and Founding Member of the Asian Indian Heritage Project (Ohio), has been on the Editorial Board of the Ancient Science of Life, on the Editorial/Reviewers’ Board of the Athens Journal of Health, and Academic Member of Athens Journal of History.
Email: p.bala@csuohio.edu
Professor Poonam Bala, Ph.D. (Sociology, Commonwealth Scholar), University of Edinburgh (UK), did postdoctoral research at the Wellcome Institute/SOAS, University College, London, and at the University of Edinburgh, and an M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Recently appointed as Professor Extraordinarius at UNISA (South Africa), formerly Professor at Amity University, Faculty at the Delhi School of Economics (University of Delhi), Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at academic institutions in South Africa, Germany, Canada and Greece, she has lectured at Harvard University, University of Queensland and delivered the Distinguished Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari Endowment Lecture (India), and recently delivered the Key Note address at the first International Seminar on Medicine and Society in Colonial Bengal, Kolkata. Recipient of several national and international fellowships, she is the author of Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective (Sage), besides several edited and authored books/research articles. Her recent publications include (ed.with R.Viljoen) Epidemic Encounters, Communities and Practices in the Colonial World (Lexington) and Kayasth Encyclopedia (with U.Sahay). Her select publications include Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa (Routledge), Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts (Lexington), Learning from Empire (Cambridge Scholars), and Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century India (Lexington), amongst others. She was President of the First International Conference on Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine (Greece),and Founding Member of the Asian Indian Heritage Project (Ohio), has been on the Editorial Board of the Ancient Science of Life, on the Editorial/Reviewers’ Board of the Athens Journal of Health, and Academic Member of Athens Journal of History.