Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College Connecticut, 1972
- Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1973
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1978
Michael Fisher holds the Robert S. Danforth Chair in History. In 2007, he was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for the Social Sciences. He has published widely on various aspects of the interaction between the peoples and polities of India and the expanding British empire, as they occurred in both India and in Britain. His two most recent books are: A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Subcontinent (co-authored with Shompa Lahiri and Shinder Thandi; London: Greenwood Press, 2007) and Visions of Mughal India: An Anthology of European Travel Writing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007) which was also published in India as Across the Three Seas: Travellers' Tales from Mughal India (New Delhi: Random House, 2007). Earlier books are: Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600-1858 (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004). Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System (Oxford University Press, 1991; 1998), The Politics of the British Annexation of India (Oxford University Press, 1994), The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England (Oxford University Press, 1996), The Travels of Dean Mahomet edited (University of California Press, 1997) and A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals (Manohar, 1987; Sangam, 1988, Riverdale, 1988). His new book on the first Indian elected to the British Parliament who was also a putative lunatic is about to be co-published by C. Hurst (London, 2009) and Columbia University Press (New York, 2009).
For the book Visions of Mughal India see: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1845113543
For the book Counterflows to Colonialism see: http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?isbn=978-81-7824-154-8
For the book Travels of Dean Mahomet see: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6908.html
Syllabi
- Cultures & Peoples of Ancient India
- Environmental History of South Asia
- F08 FYSP 140 Fisher
- Hist 163 Modern South Asia
- Hist 357 Non-Violent Opp Brit Imprlsm
- Cultures and Peoples of Ancient India
- Pakistan A New Nation's Contested Identities
- Hist. 163 Modern S. Asia:From british Imp./Present
