Dr Sarah Hodges

Contact Information

Room H026

Office hours:

Mondays 2-3; Wednesdays 10-11.

Telephone:

+44 (0)2476 523451

Email: s.hodges [at] warwick.ac.uk

Academic Profile:

2008-present, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick
2003-2007, Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick
2001-2003, Temporary University Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
2000-2001, Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, U of London
1999-2001, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, U of London
1999: MA PhD, University of Chicago (History)
1990: BA, Brown University (History)

Postgraduate Modules

Theory, Skills and Method - Core Module for all Taught MA students
Themes and Methods in Medical History (HI907) Core module for the MA in the History of Medicine

Undergraduate Modules

India After Indira, 1975-2000 (HI31T)
Empire and Aftermath (HI173)
Historiography (HI323)
Developing South Asia: From Colonialism to Globalization (HI167) (not available in 2011-12)
Foul Matters: Public Health from the Victorians to Globalization (HI31K) (not available in 2011-12)
In Sickness and in Wealth: International Development and the Making of the Third World (HI162) (not available in 2011-12)

Publications

Books

Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce: Birth Control in South India, 1920-1940 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).

Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies. Editor (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006).

Guest Edited Special Issues

Women's Studies Quarterly: Technologies 37, 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2009). With Karen Throsby.

Articles

'The Global Menace.' Social History of Medicine (2011); doi: 10.1093/shm/hkr166

'South Asia's Eugenic Pasts.' In Philippa Levine and Alison Bashford (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. xx.

'Indian Eugenics in an Age of Reform.' In Hodges (ed.), Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006), pp. 115-138.

'Toward a History of Reproduction in Modern India.' In Hodges (ed.), Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006), pp. 1-21.

'Revolutionary Family Life and the Self Respect Movement in Tamil south India, 1926-49.' Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 39, 2 (2005): 251-277.

'Looting the Lock Hospital in Colonial Madras during the Famine Years of the 1870s.' Social History of Medicine 18, 3 (2005): 379-398.

'Governmentality, Population and the Reproductive Family in Modern India.' Economic and Political Weekly 39, 11 (March 13, 2004): 1157-63.

Working Papers

Chennai's Biotrash Chronicles: Chasing the Neo-Liberal Syringe GARNET Working Paper 44/08

Review articles

'Malthus is Forever: The Global Market for Population Control.' Global Social Policy 10, 1 (2010): 120-126.

Research

I work on the social and cultural history of modern South Asia, specifically the politics of health in colonial and postcolonial India (particularly the Tamil-speaking south). My interests lie at the intersection of a number of fields: modern South Asian history, gender studies, anthropology, and the history of science, technology and medicine.

I am currently at work on a book about the contemporary history of medical garbage in Chennai, India, provisionally titled, Biotrash: The logic and everyday practice of neoliberalism