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

Associate professor, South Asian and World history

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, the Himalayas

Courses Offered

• ASH 3323 Modern South Asia
• ASH 3404 Modern China
• 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 5930 British Empire
• HIS 6159 Historiography
• IDH 1930 Honors Readings
• WOH 1030 World Civilization since 1815
• WOH 3044 20th Century World History
• WOH 6915 Research in World History
• WOH 6939 Seminar in World History

Books

• An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009).

Articles and Essays

• “The Tentative First Steps in the Creation of a Himalayan Hydroelectricity Market Between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal,” In Progress.
• "The Indus River Basin in the 21st Century" in Robert M. Hathaway and Michael Wills, eds., Managing New Security Challenges in Asia (Wilson Center Press), forthcoming in early 2013.
• Review of The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia, ed. Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damadaran and Rohan D’Souza (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011) in Environmental History 17, no.1 (2012): 177-178.
• Review of Re-thinking Economic Development: The Green Revolution, Agrarian Structure and Transformation in Bangladesh, Fujita Koichi (Kyoto University Press, 2010) in Agricultural History 85, no. 2 (2011): 284-285.
• "Aksai Chin" in Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long (eds.), India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2011.
• "Wildlife" in Peter Sterns (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• Abstract of "Development Issues in the Indus River Basin: The Limitations of the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) and Ongoing Ecological Consequences" in Proceedings of The Fourth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference: Himalayan Journal of Development and Democracy, Vol 4, no. 1 (2009), pp. 38-39.

Conference Presentations

• “Damming the Himalayas: Assessing the Eco-friendliness of Large Damns in SAARC's Growth Quadrangle” paper presented at the “Thinking Mountains 2012 Interdisciplinary Mountain Studies Conference,” Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 11-14 December 2012.
• "Flood Control in the Himalayas: A Preliminary History of Futility," paper presented at "Disasters Wet and Dry: Rivers, Floods, and Droughts in World History," sponsored jointly by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, and the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, 23-26 May 2013.
• “The Tentative First Steps in the Creation of a Himalayan Hydroelectricity Market Between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal,” paper resented at the “Regulation, Private Sector Authority and Market Building in Asia”, Singapore, 27-28 October 2011.
• "The Indus River Basin in the 21st Century," paper presented at the 2010 Asia Policy Assembly (The National Bureau of Asian Research/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Washington, DC, 18 June 2010.
• "Wildlife Conservation in Cambodia - A Global Perspective" paper presented at the international conference," paper presented at the Cambodia and World History/World History and Cambodia," Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3-4 January 2010.
• "The Indus River Basin in the 20th Century," paper presented at the "Rivers and Landscapes in the 20th Century: Laboratories for a Sustainable Development 'avant la lettre'?" conference at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, November 2009.
• "Development Issues in the Indus River Basin: The Limitations of the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) and Ongoing Ecological Consequences," paper presented at the Fourth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference, Madison, 22 October 2009.
• "Rethinking Urban Violence During the Partition of India: Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)," paper presented at the annual conference of the World History Association, London, June 2008.

Grants and Awards

• Travel award for conference presentation of "Flood Control in the Himalayas: A Preliminary History of Futility," at Disasters Wet and Dry: Rivers, Floods, and Droughts in World History, sponsored jointly by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, and the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, 23-26 May 2013.
• Research Fellow, National Asia Research Program of the National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010-2012.
• Travel Grant, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, to present at the workshop on “Regulation, Private Sector Authority and Market Building in Asia," 2011.
• Travel Grant, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, to present at the conference on "Rivers and Landscapes in the 20th Century: Laboratories for a Sustainable Development 'avant la lettre'?", 2009.
• Rockefeller Archive Center of The Rockefeller University research grant, 1997.
• Fulbright Fellowship (India), 1993-1994.
• Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (India), 1992.

Service to the profession

• Contributing Editor, Asian Studies Newsletter.
• Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions: World History (McGraw-Hill)
• Member, Advisory Board, Annual Editions: Western Civilization (McGraw-Hill)
• Member, Advisory Board, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Economic Issues (McGraw-Hill)

FGCU

• Member, Steering Committee for the Lee County School District’s “E Pluribus Unum: One Nation, One People” Project.
• Member, Florida State University System Statewide Course Numbering System Asian Studies Committee and FGCU Asian Studies Discipline Coordinator.
• Interim Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fall 2010 to Summer 2011.
• Interim History Program Leader, Spring 2010.
• Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fall 2005 to Summer 2008.
• History Program Leader, Fall 2005 to Summer 2008.
• Interim Psychology Program Leader, Fall 2006 to Summer 2007.
• Social Science Program Leader, Fall 2003 to Summer 2005.