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Professor Mukherjee specializes in the legal, political, and cultural history of modern India.Ìý

Professor Mukherjee teaches courses on the history of south asia with a focus on modern India. Some of the courses she offers include: "Introduction to South Asian History since 1757," "History of Modern India," "Women in Modern India," and "Human Rights: Historical Perspectives."Ìý

Professor Mukherjee recieved her Ph.D. from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Chicago. Her reserach interests include colonialism and nationalism, law and empire, human rights, comparative constitutionalism and democracy, gender, poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and subaltern histories. Her book,ÌýÌý(Oxford ³Ô¹ÏÍø Press, 2010), traces the legal and political makeup of India through the colonial and post-colonial eras. She contends that the concept of justice as equity, as opposed to freedom,Ìýprovided an ideological framework for the British Empire in India andÌýalso became the ground for anti-colonial representational politics under the Indian National Congress.ÌýHer other publications include Ìýin theÌýAmerican Historical ReviewÌý(April 2010),Ìý"A World of Illusion: The Place of Empire in India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-1962"Ìýin theÌýInternational History ReviewÌý(June, 2010) and "Justice, War, and the Imperium: India and Britain in Edmund Burke's Prosecutorial Speeches in the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings" inÌýLaw and History ReviewÌý(Fall 2005).

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