Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of History

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
History

Expertise

Early modern European history. Germany.

Profile

Works on the social history of early modern Europe (c. 1450 to c. 1750). He is most interested in rural Germany, and in particular, the transformation of family and property relations in the context of economic crisis and religious war.

Awards and Honors

Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Scholarship (2006)

National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2001)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (2000 - 2001)

Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching (1999 - 2000)

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard University CUE Guide (1995)

Gross Dissertation Prize in History (1995)

Harvard Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1994)

DAAD Fellowship for Archival Research (Augsburg) (1991)

DAAD Fellowship (Universitat Regensburg) (1989)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (1989)

Isadore Finkelstein Prize in History (1987)

German Embassy Prize in German (1986)

Madelene Hogson Prize in History (1985)

Norman Prentice Prize in History (1985)

Courses Taught

HIST	56b	World History to 1960
HIST	66a	History of South Asia (2500 BCE - 1971)
HIST	121a	Breaking the Rules: Deviance and Nonconformity in Premodern Europe
HIST	123b	Reformation Europe (1400-1600)
HIST	126a	Early Modern Europe (1500-1700)
HIST	127b	Household and Family in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1300-1800)
HIST	179a	Labor, Gender, and Exchange in the Atlantic World, 1600-1850
HIST	205b	Introduction to Doctoral Studies
HIST	215a	World History
HIST	215b	Teaching World History
HIST	221b	Thematic Seminar in Premodern Legal History
SAS	100a	Introduction to South Asia

Scholarship

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Beyond the Village: Recent Approaches to the Social History of the Early Modern German Peasantry." History Compass 11. 1 (2013): 47-6

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Chapter 1: Food Production." A Cultural History of Food. Volume 4: The Early Modern Age. vol. 4 Ed. Beat Kümin. Oxford: Berg, 2012

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Review." Rev. of Revolte und Sozialstatus. Von der Spätantike bis zur Frühen Neuzeit. Révolte et statut social de l'Antiquité tardive aux Temps modernes, by Philippe Depreux, ed.. sehepunkte vol. 9, 10 October 2009

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Review." Rev. of Ecology, economy and state formation in early modern Germany, by Paul Warde. Social History vol. 32, 4 (Nov 2007): 473-5.

Sreenivasan, Govind. "Review." Rev. of Communal Christianity: The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in early modern Germany. (Boston and Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2004), by David Mayes. Central European History vol. 39, 3 (September 2006): pp. 496-8.

Sreenivasan,Govind. "Review of Oliver Kaul, Undankbare Gäste: Abendmahlsverzich und Abendmahls-ausschluss in der Reichsstadt Ulm um 1600." German History (2005).

Sreenivasan, Govind. The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2004.