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Barbara D. Metcalf

American historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1941 · age 85

Barbara Daly Metcalf is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. She is a specialist in the history of South Asia, especially the colonial period, and the history of the Muslim population of India and Pakistan.

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

She previously served as the dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and as the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan (2003-2009). She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1994 and the president of the American Historical Association in 2010-11.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1941 · age 85