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Shaivya Mishra is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research focuses on the history of underground nationalism and modern surveillance networks in 20th-century British India. They are an advanced doctoral candidate working on The Bomb, the Bullet and the Gandhi Cap: Violent Nationalism and Political Surveillance in Colonial India, 1906–1945, which explores the entanglements between non-violent movements like the Indian National Congress and violent secret societies. They are also developing a second book project, The Empire of Spies: South Asian Dissent and the Making of Transatlantic Surveillance in 20th Century North America, examining transatlantic surveillance networks targeting South Asian dissent.
Research interests include global anti-colonialism, British imperial history, and the history of science and technology. They have presented papers at conferences such as the Annual Conference on South Asia (Madison) and the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference. Teaching roles include serving as primary instructor for History 103: Bullets, Sedition and Surveillance in the British Empire and graduate student instructor/reader for courses like History 114A: Medieval and Early Modern India and History 11: History of India.
- Awards:
- 2021: Maharaj Kaul Memorial Grant
- 2019: Junior Research Fellowship (American Institute of Indian Studies)
- 2019: Kumkum Chatterjee Memorial Fellowship
