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Associate Professor
History • International Affairs

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Lucy P. Chester is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs focusing on British imperial and anticolonial history in South Asia. She received both her B.A.聽summa cum laude聽and聽Ph.D. from Yale.聽Her first book,聽聽(Manchester University Press, 2009), explores聽the drawing of the boundary between India and Pakistan in 1947.聽Her current book manuscript (under contract with Oxford University Press) examines connections between India and the Palestine Mandate in the 1920s-1940s.聽Chester 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.