Vinay Lal, Ph.D.

Vinay Lal, Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of History and Asian American Studies

I’m a cultural historian with wide-ranging interests in global politics, culture, and history, though the greater portion of my work has focused on South Asia and colonialism. I have also had a long-standing interest in cultures of nonviolence and nonviolent movements around the world, and have written extensively on ethics in politics, on the politics of sexuality, masculinity, and femininity, and on the moral and political thought of Gandhi.