Maria Tumiotto

I am a historian of modern South Asia, specialized in late colonial Bengal. My research interests include intellectual history, gender and women’s studies, student movements, and international relations and ideologies in the 20th century.

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, and the M.A. in History and Oriental Studies at the 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 then completed my PhD at the University of Manchester. My PhD project explores the subjectivities of activists and politically conscious bhadramahilas (Bengali middle-class educated ‘gentlewomen’) during the last decades of the British rule, encompassing activism, nationalism, and women's and student movements. 

I am Graduate Teaching Assistant for the courses "Colonial Encounters: Violence, Race and the Making of the Modern World" and "History in Practice".