B.A., History, UC Berkeley, 2000-2003
M.A., History, UCLA, 2004-2006 |
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| E-mail: psharma at ucla.edu |
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| Subfield |
U.S.
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| Research |
My research and teaching interests include the history of American foreign relations, twentieth century international history, and U.S. political, economic, and social history in its global context. I am currently completing a dissertation on Robert McNamara's presidency of the World Bank.
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| Publications |
"The UN Supplemental Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade (1956)," in Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. The Encyclopedia of Modern Slavery (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
"The Global Cold War," review essay in the Yale Journal of International Affairs (Spring/Summer 2007).
"Interests and Ideas at the United Nations," review essay in the SAIS Review (Summer/Fall 2007).
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| Grants and Awards |
UCLA Graduate Division, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2009-2010
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Bemis Research Grant, 2009
UCLA Department of History, Eric Monkonnen Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2008-2009
UCLA Department of History, Carey McWilliams Research Grant, 2008
Gerald R. Ford Foundation, Research Grant, 2008
Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Moody Research Grant, 2008
UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2007-2008
UCLA International Institute, Alice Belkin Memorial Scholarship, 2006-2007
UCLA Graduate Division, Summer Research Mentorship Award, 2006
UCLA Graduate Division, Year-Long Research Mentorship Award, 2005-2006
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| Advisors |
John Agnew (geography)
Ivan Berend
Ellen DuBois (chair)
Mary Yeager
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| Conference Presentations |
"Robert McNamara and the Invention of Structural Adjustment Lending at the World Bank," presented at the Nordic Summer School on Contemporary History, University of Aarhus (August 2009)
"Between Patrons and Clients: The World Bank's Response to the North-South Debate in the 1970s," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Falls Church, Virginia (June 2009)
"The Birth, Life, and Death of Population Control at the World Bank," presented at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. conference, "A World of Populations: 20th Century Demographic Discourses and Practices in Global Perspective" (May 2009)
"The Development of Development at Robert McNamara's World Bank," presented at the Columbia University conference, "Claiming the World: Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action" (March 2009)
"International Development in an Age of Global Transformation: The Case of Robert McNamara's World Bank," presented at the Università di Bologna conference, "The Transformation of the International System in the 1970s" (February 2009)
"Robert McNamara, the World Bank Group, and the Transformation of International Development in the 1970s," presented at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University conference "Cold War as the Periphery: Global Change in the 1960s and Beyond" (April 2008)
"The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Globalization: The UN Working Group on Slavery and the Emergence of ‘Contemporary Antislavery,’" presented at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung conference "Global Labor History and the Question of Freedom and Unfreedom" (December 2006)
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