LucyChester

  • Associate Professor
  • BRITISH EMPIRE / SOUTH ASIA
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Professor Chester focuses on British imperial and anticolonial history in South Asia.

Professor Chester teaches courses on British imperialism, nationalism, and anticolonialism.ÌýHer classes focus on South Asia in a transnational context, with attention to the Middle East and Africa.ÌýSome of the courses she teaches includeÌý"Borderlands of Empire," "Decolonization of the British Empire,"Ìýand a capstone seminar on South Asian nationalism. Professor Chester also teaches in the International Affairs program.

Professor Chester received both her B.A.Ìýsumma cum laude andÌýPh.D. from Yale.ÌýHer first book, (Manchester University Press, 2009), exploresÌýthe drawing of the boundary between India and Pakistan in 1947.ÌýHer current book manuscript (under contract with Oxford University Press) examines connections between India and the Palestine Mandate in the 1920s-1940s.ÌýChester is in the early stages of a project on the geographical imagination of Pakistan. Her work has been supported by the American Institute for Pakistan Studies, the American Institute for Indian Studies, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.

ÌýÌýProfessor Chester is not accepting advisees at this time.