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William Glover is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1999). His research focuses on South Asian colonial and postcolonial urban and cultural history, material culture, and modernization aesthetics. He is jointly appointed in the Architecture program and has authored Making Lahore Modern (2008), a prize-winning study of colonial urban development.
Key roles include former Director of the Center for South Asian Studies (2007-09, 2018-19), Associate Director of the International Institute (2009-11), and Director of Graduate Studies in History (2013-16). Current research explores the migration of urban concepts into agrarian spaces in colonial north India, culminating in his forthcoming book Reformatting Agrarian Life.
- Awards: American Institute of Pakistan Studies Junior Book Award (2008), Urban History Association Award (2006), Eisenberg Institute Fellowship (2021)
- Key Projects: Agrarian urbanism, census town dynamics, and socio-economic modernization in colonial South Asia
His interdisciplinary work bridges history, architecture, and social theory, with publications in Urban History, Journal of Asian Studies, and Economic and Political Weekly.
