Phone: 724-503-1001 x3217
Office: Old Main 204C
Email: kjaywant@washjeff.edu
Ketaki Jaywant
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Degrees: Ph.D History, University of Minnesota., M.Phil Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; M.A., Tata Institute of Social Sciences; B.A., University of Mumbai.
Ketaki Jaywant completed her Doctoral Studies in History at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation is entitled Secularizing Caste: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Anti-caste Politics in Western India. She specializes in South Asian History with a research interest in nineteenth-century caste politics in South Asia; the circulation of categories of race and caste across the modern world; the global history of liberalism and modernity; and colonialism and imperialism.