Barbara D. Metcalf

Barbara Daly Metcalf ( b. 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, a Master's degree three years later. At the University of Wisconsin in Indian Studies In 1974 she received her doctorate at the Faculty of Süd-/Südostasien-Studien at the University of California. Then they also lectured there for a year. From 1975, she took on an ongoing for seven years teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1983 to 1986 she worked as an editor ( acquiring editor) at the University of California Press. She was appointed to the chair of history at the University of California in 1996 and held him for seven years. She then moved to the University of Michigan and was Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History. A year later, they elected as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, which she remained until 2007. 2010 Metcalf was given emeritus status. In 2000, she was Vice-President of AHA, 2010 as its president.

Work (selection)

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