Maria Tumiotto

My PhD project researches the agency and subjectivity of young educated bhadramahilas in colonial Bengal popular movements, encompassing activism, feminism, and student unrest. My research interests include intellectual history, gender and women’s studies, and youth movements.

Indian history, Bengal history, colonial India history, world history, British Empire, intellectual history, women and gender studies, student movements.

I received my B.A. in History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, graduating with honours. Then I completed the M.A. in History and Oriental Studies at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. During the M.A. I won the "Overseas" scholarship, which had allowed me to attend a semester at the Jadavpur University of Kolkata. I graduated with honours with a dissertation on Subhas Chandra Bose's relations with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany between the 1930s and 1940s.

I have worked as Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course "Colonial Encounters: Violence, Race and the Making of the Modern World".