Govind Sreenivasan
Departments/Programs
European Cultural StudiesHistory
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
South Asian Studies
Degrees
Harvard University, Ph.D.Harvard University, M.A.
Expertise
Early modern European history, especially Germany. World History.Profile
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Works on the social history of early modern Europe (c. 1450 to c. 1750), especially in comparative perspective with Indo-Islamic and East Asian civilizations. He is most interested in rural Germany, and in particular in the role of criminal and civil legal institutions in the daily life of the peasantry.
Courses Taught
| HIST | 56b | Rethinking 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 | 179a | Labor, Gender, and Exchange in the Atlantic World, 1600-1850 |
| HIST | 215a | World History |
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)
Scholarship
Sreenivasan, Govind. "Why Should World Historians Care about the Reformation?." World History Association Conference (Panel: "Re-Thinking the Reformation: New Ideas and Strategies for Instructors in World History"). Boston, MA. June 23, 2017.
Sreenivasan, Govind. "Speaking Nothing to Power in early modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius Commune (pp. 88-113)." The Dark Side of Knowledge: Histories of Ignorance, 1400-1800. Ed. Cornel Zwierlein. Leiden: Brill, 2016
Sreenivasan, Govind. "Speaking Nothing to Power in early modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius Commune." Ignorance, Nescience, Nonknowledge: Late Medieval and Early Modern Coping with Un-knowns, Harvard University. 20 Feb 2015.
Sreenivasan, Govind. "[Review]." Rev. of Die Neuwerker Bauern und ihre Nachbarn im 14. Jahrhundert, by Ludolf Kuchenbuch. German History vol. 33, 1 2015: 133-135.
Sreenivasan, Govind. "[Review]." Rev. of Earls Colne’s Early Modern Landscapes, by Dolly MacKinnon. Renaissance Quarterly vol. 68, 3 Fall 2015: 1082-4.
Sreenivasan, Govind. "Judging and Punishing Injuries in Early Modern Germany (c. 1550-1650)." Central European History 47. 3 (2014): 544-584.
Sreenivasan, Govind. "[Review]." Rev. of Social Relations: Property and Power [Rural Economy and Society in North-western Europe, 500-2000, vol. 1], by Bas J. P. van Bavel and Richard W. Hoyle (eds.). Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie vol. 60, 2 2012
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.