Barbara D. Metcalf

Barbara Daly Metcalf (* 1941 ) is an American historian and former president of the American Historical Association (AHA).

Metcalf received her bachelor's degree in history from Swarthmore College in 1963, and her master's degree in Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin three years later . In 1974 she received her PhD from the Faculty of South / Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California . Then she also lectured there for a year. From 1975 she began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania for seven years . From 1983 to 1986 she worked as an acquiring editor at the University of California Press . In 1996 she was appointed to a chair in history at the University of California and held it for seven years. She then moved to the University of Michigan and became Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History . A year later she was elected director of the Center for South Asian Studies , which she remained until 2007. Metcalf retired in 2010. In 2000 she was Vice President of the AHA and in 2010 its President.

Work (selection)

• Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 , Princeton, NJ 1982. ISBN 0-691-05343-X
• Islamic Contestations: Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan , New Delhi, New York 2004. ISBN 0-19-566666-6
• (together with Thomas R. Metcalf ): A Concise History of Modern India , 2nd edition, New York 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-68225-1

Web links

• Biography and bibliography on the Columbia University website (PDF; 35 kB)
• Barbara D. Metcalf, The Study of Muslims in South Asia, December 2, 2005.
• Literature by and about Barbara D. Metcalf in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement on the AHA website. ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Barbara D. Metcalf, Doing History for Life , in: Perspectives on History, January 2010.
3. ↑ Annual Report 2000 of the AHA