Alice Whitcomb Clark,Ph.D.

Lecturer of History and Political Science

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Education History

• Ph.D., Comparative World History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1979. Dissertation:  "Central Gujarat in the Nineteenth Century:  The Integration of an Agrarian System." 
• Advisor:  Professor Robert Eric Frykenberg.
• M.A., South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.A., History, Swarthmore College

Courses Taught

• World History
• The Human Experience
• International Human Rights

Research and Interests

• Historical demography of India, 1820-2000
• The demographic impact of British rule on India: Regional variations
• Female social locations in the agrarian systems of Western India 
• The agrarian integration of Central Gujarat, 1800-1920
• Baroda in the 1850s, and the fickle finances of the Bombay Presidency
• Land tenure systems, caste chameleons, and peasant power in Gujarat
• Swami Narayan and Gujarat’s caste hierarchy in the early 19th century
• Gandhian legacies and the goals of the current women’s movement
• Women and business in Western India

Recognitions

Professional Affiliations

• Social Science History Association
• Association for Asian Studies

Workshops

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Community Activities

Publications

• Gender and Political Economy:  Explorations of South Asian Systems (as solicitor of contributions, contributor, and editor), Oxford University Press-Delhi, 1993.
• "Analyzing the Reproduction of Human Beings and Social Formations, with Indian Regional Examples over the Last Century," in Alice W. Clark, ed., Gender and Political Economy:  Explorations of South Asian Systems, Oxford University Press-Delhi, 1993.
• "Marriage, Credit Networking and the Demography of Central Gujarat, 1824-1904," published in Gujarati in Arthat, the Journal of the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India, October-December 1990.
• "Limitations on Female Life Chances in Rural Central Gujarat," in Women in Colonial India:  Work, Survival and the State, Oxford University Press, 1989 -- reprinted from Indian Economic and Social History Review, Jan.-March 1983.
• "Mortality, Fertility, and the Status of Women in India, 1881-1931," in Tim Dyson, ed., India's Historical Demography: Studies in Famine, Disease and Society, London: Curzon Press, 1989.
• "Social Demography of Excess Female Mortality in India:  New Directions," in Economic and Political Weekly, 22:17, Review of Women Studies, April 25, 1987.
• "Family and Fertility in Context: Comments on Some Caldwellian Themes," with Susan De Vos and K. Radhakrishna Murty, in The Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 18:1, Spring 1987.