Sandhya Shukla

Sandhya Shukla is associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Virginia, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. Her most recent book is *Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place* (Columbia University Press, 2024). She is also the author of *India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England* (Princeton University Press, 2003), and a co-editor of *Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame* (Duke University Press, 2007). Her work has appeared in publications such as *American Quarterly*, *symploke*, and *Annual Review of Anthropology*.

Degrees
Ph.D. Yale
M.A. Yale
B.A. Cornell

Articles
“Langston Hughes and Simple: Across Form and Space to a Political Consciousness,” in Langston Hughes in Context, eds. Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
'It’s that Spanish Blood,’: Langston Hughes Imagines Race in Harlem and the World,” in American Quarterly (December 2018)
Editors’ Introduction, and special issue edited, “The Global South: Histories, Itineraries and Politics,” Radical History Review 131 (May 2018)
“Diasporic Autobiography: New Indias and New Selves in the Works of Dhan Gopal Mukerji and Dalip Singh Saund,” in Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, eds. Rajini Srikanth and Min Song (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
“South Asian Migration to the United States: Diasporic and National Formations,” in Routledge Handbook on South Asian Diaspora, eds. Joya Chatterji and David Washbrook (London: Routledge, 2014).
“Loving the Other in 1970s Harlem: Race, Space, and Place in Aaron Loves Angela,” symploke, Vol. 18, Nos. 1-2 (2010).
“Harlem’s Pasts in its Present,” for Politics, Publics, Personhood: Ethnography at the Limits of Neoliberalism, ed. Carol Greenhouse, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2009).
“Interdisciplinarity and Historical Encounter of the Americas,” with Heidi Tinsman, LASA Forum 36:2 (Fall 2005).
“Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings”: Special Issue of Radical History Review, edited and introduced with Heidi Tinsman, Spring 2004. {Awarded “Best Special Issue for 2004" by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals}
“Comparativism, Ethnicity and the United States, in a Diasporic History of the Americas,” [review essay], American Quarterly, Vo. 54, No. 1 (March 2002).
“Locations for South Asian Diasporas,” in Annual Review of Anthropology 30 (2001).

Grants and Fellowships
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2012-2013
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, 2005-2006
Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, 2001-2002
Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997-1998