Howard Spodek

Areas of Expertise:

Third World urbanization, history of Indian cities

Education:

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research:

Dr. Spodek's current research and writing is focused on the history of urbanization in India, and especially on the city of Ahmedabad in recent times and in finding new ways of researching and teaching world history at the college and high school levels.

Dr. Spodek has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Representative Publications:

Urban-Rural Integration in Regional Development: A Case Study of Saurashtra, India, 1800-1960 (1960).

"Rulers, Merchants, and Other Groups in the City-States of Saurashtra, India, ca. 1800," Comparative Studies in Society and History (1974).

"Studying the History of Urbanization in India," Journal of Urban History (1980).

"From Gandhi to Violence: The 1985 Ahmedabad Riots in Historical Perspective," Modern Asian Studies (1989).

Co-editor, Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia (1993).