SeemaSohi

  • Associate Professor
  • ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES U.S. HISTORY
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Education

Ph.D., 勛圖厙 of Washington - History, 2008
M.A., 勛圖厙 of Vermont - History
B.A., 勛圖厙 of California, Santa Cruz - English & History, 1997

Research Interests

Asian American Studies, U.S. History, Critical Ethnic Studies, Climate Justice, Empire, Citizenship, Social Movements


Seema Sohi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder. Her book, Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America (Oxford 勛圖厙 Press, 2014) examines the radical anticolonial politics of South Asian intellectuals and migrant workers based in North America during the early twentieth century as well as the inter-imperial efforts of the U.S. and British states to repress them. A history of radicalism and antiradicalism, this project also looks at the racial formations of South Asians through the lens of antiradicalism during the early years of South Asian migration to the United States. She has also published essays and articles in the Journal of American History, Sikh Formations, and an anthology titled, The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (New York 勛圖厙 Press, 2013).泭She is currently writing a history of the climate justice movement.


Selected Publications

Book

Sohi, Seema. (Oxford Univeristy Press, 2014).泭

Refereed Articles

Sohi, Seema. Barred Zones, Rising Tides, and Radical Struggles: The 1917 Immigration Act,泭Journal of American泭History, Volume 109, Issue 2, September 2022, pgs. 298309.泭
泭 泭 泭*泭Winner of the 2023 Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best article the appeared in the Journal of American History in 2022.泭

Sohi, Seema. From Bandung to Little Rock: Dalip Singh Saund and the Limits of Racial Liberalism Invited contribution to Special Issue of泭Amerasia泭titled, Conservatisms and Fascisms in Asian America,泭Volume 48, Issue 1, 2022, pgs. 83-90.泭

Sohi, Seema. Indian Anticolonialism and Security Regimes Across the British and American Empires, Journal of Modern European History泭16, no. 3 (August 2018): 335-352

Sohi, Seema. Sites of Sedition, Sites of Liberation: Gurdwaras, the Ghadar Party, and Anticolonial Mobilization, Sikh Formations 10, no. 1 (April 2014): 5-22.

Sohi, Seema.泭Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in the Transnational Western U.S.-Canadian Borderlands, Journal of American History 98 (September 2011).

Contributions to Edited Collections

Sohi, Seema. South Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire and Migration in the United States,泭Asian American Literature in Transition, Josephine Lee and Julia Lee eds., Cambridge 勛圖厙 Press, (2021)

Sohi, Seema.泭Repressing the Hindu Menace: Race, Anarchy, and Indian Anticolonialism," in Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery, eds., The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in the Age of U.S. Power (New York: New York 勛圖厙 Press, 2013).