Deepthi Murali

Smuggling Tea and Handkerchiefs? — Deepthi Murali A snippet from aboard the British East India Company ship in 1712.

Getting back into the habit of blogging about research. Here’s a rather random account of tea and handkerchief smuggling on board an East Indiaman. Doors were broken. www.deepthimurali.com/thieves-in-t... #history #eastindiacompany #tea

Thank you for letting me be part of the episode. It was fun!

"One of many!"

How did the East India Company get its start on the Indian sub-continent? Contributing expert @deepthimurali.bsky.social of George Mason University takes us back to the reign of Elizabeth I in this clip from Episode 16: The Tea.

Connecting Threads Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean

The #NEHfunded @deepthimurali.bsky.social 's Connecting Threads project focused on the global history of fashion. It connects small museums & archives to places with larger collections through a queryable database connectingthreads.co.uk

Our NEH grant for the Connecting Threads project was terminated along with many others. With little pomp and no warning. Also not sure if we will ever have any grants to apply for at the NEH. This is a big hit on grants-based, collaborative and digital humanities research in the US.

The Dept of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University is hiring an Analyst, IT - Digital Humanities Specialist. Position works primarily with fac/staff/students in our Digital Art History and Visual Culture Research Lab and related programs. Posting: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-A...

Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications!

apply.interfolio.com/157701

We end the semester with presentations on nationalism in Bengali plays, materiality of Partition, and some well-deserved samosas and pani puri. #teachinghistory

Thanks to Dr. Neilesh Bose for putting together this colloquium at University of Victoria (BC). This was such a productive experience. I finally shared research I have been sitting on, on these beautiful ivory tankards from Travancore. Tankard featured: early 20th century at Napier Museum, Kerala.

I also made the mistake of thinking that’s academia. 🫢

Slowly posting about Connecting Threads project launch/symposium at V&A Museum last month. This is a digital public history project and the website is now live at: connectingthreads.co.uk The whole day was incredible! #connectingthreads #academicsky #digitalhistory #indianhistory #caribbeanhistory

At University of Victoria for the Global South Asia Colloquium. We discussed Indian Ocean World history and book projects for two very productive days. Thanks to Prof. Neilesh Bose for putting this together and the CAPI team for being wonderful hosts.

Victoria BC has the loveliest little Chinatown. The Fan Tan Alley has a little museum on the history of Chinese-Canadians. It’s the second oldest Chinatown in North America and the oldest in Canada.

cc: @rrchnm.bsky.social

George Mason researchers receive NEH funding for Connecting Threads project Deepthi Murali and Jason Heppler of George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have received a level two Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment...

Our project was featured in the @georgemasonu.bsky.social news site! www.gmu.edu/news/2024-11... There's a bit of both me and @jasonheppler.org talking about the project on there.

NEH Announces $37.5 Million for 240 Humanities Projects Nationwide

We are excited that two RRCHNM projects have been awarded grants by the NEH! This funding will support the work of @deepthimurali.bsky.social and @jasonheppler.org on the digital project Connecting Threads, and @amandamadden.bsky.social translating La sefra (The World). www.neh.gov/news/NEH-gra...

Join RRCHNM for an evening and meet our team, engage with our projects, and create history on Saturday, November 11 from 4-5:30pm at Research Hall, 4th Floor on George Mason University's Fairfax, VA campus.

We are approaching our thirtieth anniversary! To honor that occasion, Roy Rosenzweig's pioneering work and work being done now, we are hosting an open-house event, hors d'oeuvres included, on November 11 from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. Register today and join us! alumni.gmu.edu/s/1564/GID2/...