College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor
Phone: (239)590-7214
E-Mail: estraho@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - Office 32

Assistant professor, South Asian and World history

estraho@fgcu.edu

Ph.D., History, University of Iowa, 1997
M.A., History, University of Iowa, 1989
B.A., History, Drake University, 1988

Research and teaching interests: Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia, Modern and Imperial Britain, environmental history, wildlife conservation

Courses offered:
ASH 3323 Modern South Asia
ASH 3550 Post-Colonial India
ASH 6915 Research in Asian History
ASH 6939 Seminar in Asian History
ASN 2005 Introduction to Asian Studies
EUH 3502 Modern Britain
EUH 3530 British Empire
HIS 2930 South Asian History
HIS 4104 Philosophy of History
HIS 6159 Historiography
HIS 6445 Postcolonial Theories
WOH 1023 World Civilization 1500-1815
WOH 1030 World Civilization since 1815
WOH 3044 20th Century World History
WOH 6939 Seminar in World History

Recent publications and conference papers:

Book: An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)

"Development of the Indus River Basin in Historical Perspective." Paper to be presented at the International conference on "Border Rivers and landscapes in the 20th century: Laboratories for a sustainable development 'avant la lettre'?," Paris, November 2009.

"Sustainable Water Use in the Indus River Basin." Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference, University of Wisconsin- Madison, October 2009.

"Rethinking Urban Violence During the Partition of India: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)." Paper presented at the annual conference of the World History Association, June 2008.

"The Role of Malaria in the Scientification of Race in British India" with Monica Piotter. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference, April 2005.

"The Green Revolution in India." Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, January 2003.

Service to the profession:

• Contributing Editor, Asian Studies Newsletter. Fall 2000 to present.
• Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions: World History (McGraw-Hill)
• Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions: Western Civilization (McGraw-Hill)