after a long discussions over last 2 month with my friend chris hill on cholas history, now he is intrested to write another book on environmental history during chola s period.
just today he left from bhubaneswar to us and assured me to back within 2 months for taking the new assighnment of environmental history of chola's period( PWD works during cholas period). and also assured me to get information regarding cholas through american institute of indian studies and from british archives shortly.
if any one intrested to associate with him during his next visit please mail to me in this regards.
s.balasubramani B+
Christopher Hill on Asian, Japanese & Indian History
Professor Christopher Hill researches in the field of the history of India and environmental history. His first book, River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, was published by the University of Michigan. Chris recently received the Aldo Leopold award for best article in environmental history. Chris enjoys teaching Asian history, Asian- American history, and environmental history. Chris received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1987 and taught at Lock Haven University, before escaping to UCCS in 1993. During the 1999-2000 school year, Chris was in residence at Calcutta, where he worked as one of five nationally named Fulbright Research Scholars in India. In the 2006-07 school year he will return to India to complete research on his current work in Indian environmental history. Chris was recently awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award in the College of LAS.
Christopher V. Hill Vita BA, University of Utah MA, PhD, University of Virginia
History of Colonial India Global Environmental History History of the British Empire Fellowships:
Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute for Indian Studies Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship Committee for Research and Creative Work Award, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop Grant Ford Foundation Travel Award , Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship Awards:
Outstanding Professor Award, LAS, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Aldo Leopold Award, American Society for Environmental History Monographs:
South Asia: An Environmental History, (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770-1996 (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies Monograph Series, Number 55, 1997). Articles:
"Of Nature and Nurture: Sedentary Agriculture and the 'Wandering Tribes' of Jharkand," in William R. Pinch, ed., Speaking of Peasants: Essays on Indian History in Honor of Walter Hauser (Delhi: Monohar Press, 2007)
"Ideology and Public Works: 'Managing' the Mahanadi River in Colonial North India," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1995.
"Philosophy and Reality in Riparian South Asia: British Famine Policy and Migration in Colonial North India," Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 25, Part 2, May 1991.
"Water and Power: Riparian Legislation and Agrarian Control in Colonial Bengal," Environmental History Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter 1990