Gyanendra Pandey

Gyanendra Pandey is an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor and Director of the Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Workshop at Emory University's Department of History. He holds a B.A. from the University of Delhi and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Previously, he taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Delhi, and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. His research focuses on colonial/postcolonial studies, subaltern theory, South Asia, and African-American history.

• Education: B.A. (Delhi University), D.Phil. (Oxford)

His key research interests include the intersection of race, caste, and nationalism in India and the U.S., unarchived histories, and democratic practices. He has authored seminal works like Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India and Remembering Partition. Current projects include a revised edition of Remembering Partition and a Hindi transcreation of Men at Home.

Pandey has organized interdisciplinary workshops on marginality, subalternity, and democracy, leading to publications such as Subaltern Citizens and Their Histories (2010) and Un-archived Histories (2014). He has delivered keynote lectures at institutions like Brown University, Duke University, and the University of Hyderabad.