Michael S. Dodson is a historian of South Asia, focusing particularly on the intellectual and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special interest in urbanism and architecture. He is currently writing a history of modernist architecture and city planning in Delhi during the 1960s and '70s. He is also writing about black metal, anti-fascism, aesthetics and ethics.
His most recent book, Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India, 1870-1930, published in 2020, is a study of local governance and urban identity in the cities of Banaras (Varanasi) and Jaunpur.
He has written for journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Intellectual History, for the online journal PLATFORM, as well as for the Indian popular press.
The College of Arts + Sciences