Meghna Chaudhuri

Meghna Chaudhuri serves as the James B. Duke Assistant Professor of History within the Department of History at Davidson College, specializing in the intersections of modern South Asian history, global capitalism, and socio-legal frameworks.

Her academic foundation includes:

• Ph.D. from New York University
• M.A. and M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University
• B.A. from Delhi University

Dr. Chaudhuri's research centers on financial subjectivity formation in colonial South Asia, examining how agrarian communities engaged with global financial infrastructures between 1830-1950. Her forthcoming book A Measure of Value: Global Finance and Making Capitalist Subjects in South Asia, 1830-1950 reframes welfare governance through finance, challenging neoliberal periodization. She actively promotes interdisciplinary scholarship across history of science, economic thought, and imperial law.

At Davidson, she teaches HIS 171: Making Modern South Asia, HIS 377: Plagues, Panics and Crisis: A History of Capitalism, HIS 271: History of Science and Technology in Modern South Asia, and HIS 473: In the Bollywood Business: Producing India, emphasizing inclusive pedagogy for students from diverse academic backgrounds.