Academics
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley BA (University of British Columbia) PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer in History Email S.T.Lambert-Hurley@lboro.ac.uk
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| I am a Senior Lecturer in Modern History. I completed my BA in Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada before coming to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London to study for my PhD. My main area of research is the history of women, gender and Islam in modern South Asia. My first work was on Muslim women’s participation in socio-religious reform movements in India in the early twentieth century. It focused on the role of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal, the woman ruler of a Muslim principality in central India, in providing essential leadership and patronage to a burgeoning network of Indian female reformers. Emerging out of this earlier work is my current research project on Muslim women’s autobiographical writing in South Asia. It traces the way in which Muslim women have reconstructed their life stories in written sources, including autobiographies, memoirs, journal articles and travel narratives, with special reference to notions of the self in the modern era. Currently, I also lead an international research network funded by the AHRC on 'Women's Autobiography in Islamic Societies' and a teaching project funded by the Higher Education Authority on 'Accessing Muslim Lives: Translating and Digitising Autobiographical Writings for Teaching and Learning'.
My teaching is in the areas of global, Islamic and South Asian history. Reflecting my research interests, my offerings include a first year module on ‘Modern World History: New Perspectives’, a second year module on ‘Modern South Asia – Politics, Society & Culture’ and a third year module on ‘Muslim Lives: Autobiography, Identity and the Self in Modern Islamic Societies’. I would welcome research students interested in women’s history, Islam, autobiography, the culture of travel, education, and/or princely states in modern South Asia.
"Atiya's Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain", with Sunil Sharma. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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Edited Books
"A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begum's A Pilgrimage to Mecca". Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2007; London: Kube, 2007; Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008; Neri Pozza, forthcoming [in Italian translation].
"Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia", co-edited with Avril A. Powell. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Articles and Chapters
"The Begums of Bhopal" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women’s Health in Bhopal State” in Anindita Ghosh (ed.), Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007, pp. 116-38; London: Palgrave, 2008.
“Historicising Debates over Women’s Status in Islam: The Case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal” in Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati (eds), India's Princely States. London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 139-156.
“A Princess’s Pilgrimage: Nawab Sikandar Begam’s account of hajj” in Tim Youngs (ed.), Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces. London: Anthem, 2006, pp. 107-27.
“An Embassy of Equality? Quaker Missionaries in Bhopal State, 1890-1930” in Avril Powell and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (eds), Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 247-281.
“Out of India: The Journeys of the Begam of Bhopal, 1901-1930,” Women’s Studies’ International Forum, 21:3 (June, 1998), 263-276; reprinted in Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton (eds). Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 293-309.
“Introduction: A Princess Revealed” in Abida Sultaan. Memoirs of a Rebel Princess. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Fostering Sisterhood: Muslim Women and the All-India Ladies’ Association,” Journal of Women’s History, 16:2 (summer, 2004), pp. 40-65.
“Princes, Paramountcy and the Politics of Muslim Identity: the Begam of Bhopal on the Indian National Stage, 1901-1926,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 26: 2 (2003), pp. 169-195.
Video
Video made up of excerpts from a documentary on Indian history and culture for BBC/Discovery (2004).