Nicholas Witkowski

Just published: my article on #caste, #Brahmin governmentalities, and early #Buddhism is now available free for download @DukePress (link below). read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/articl…

I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…

University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…

I am pleased to share my article 'The Visibility and Invisiblity of Caste(d) Waste Management Infrastructures in Delhi epw.in/journal/specia…

Friends - do read @mukesh8krishna's fantastic new piece in #JAAR that challenges our conceptions of what is #Hindu, what is #Muslim, and how #caste is used in #Indian religious categories! academic.oup.com/jaar/advance-a…

Helen De Cruz has passed. In her final days, she was frank about her gratitude but also her devastation. She called her death a "financial, emotional catastrophe" for her family. If you are able, I'll link her gofundme to support her children and husband in a reply below.

The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna is advertising a three-year 50% Postdoc Position in the field of Indology and Himalayan Studies. The current application deadline is 26th June 2025. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University…

2025b. "Constructing Identity through Monastic Legislation: Rules Intended to Differentiate Buddhists from Jainas and Ājīvikas in Vinaya Literature," 28 pages, forthcoming in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 88 academia.edu/125895266/2025… via @academia

New open access article @CSSHJournal where I write about India's city improvement trusts of early 20th century and how they inaugurated a new language, technology, and rationality of urban governance. - bit.ly/43Vy46q

New, open-access roundtable on Decolonizing Nature as Subject in Indonesia in @BKI_Journal! Such a pleasure to bounce off ideas with Marieke Bloembergen, Farabi Fakih, Anto Mohsin, Teren Sevea and many others on this! Link here: brill.com/view/journals/…

New publication: The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History is out. I am happy be in the midst of amazing contributors. My chapter titled "When the Subaltern Speaks Supremacy" looks at the discourses of 'subalternity' in relation to caste in TN. amazon.in/Routledge-Hand…

Excited to present my work at @StAntsCollege, University of Oxford.

Philosophy friends: & I am very excited to release a brand new episode of #TheYoungIdealist Series on Featuring the Distinguished Professor Emer, Dr. Rolf J. Goebel (UAH), discussing the life and thought of the German Philosopher Walter Benjamin. 1/2 youtube.com/watch?v=ujBx8n…

New Jersey folks -- Please join me for my book launch at Princeton Public Library, May 29, 7 p.m. princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/13579690

May 22nd - Prof. Stephanie Balkwill's @UCLA online lecture on her new book, _Women who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism and Governance in the Sixth Century_ Register Below: soas.ac.uk/about/event/wo…

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Today's the big day! Happy Pub Day to my first book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION! It explores how Booker T. Washington's & George Washington Carver's visions of sustainable agriculture shaped the broader Black diaspora. So thrilled it's officially in the world! Read more below.

India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent will be released in India on June 17! Preorder your copy here: amazon.in/India-000-Year… #India #history #newbook

Friends, please join Adeana McNicholl and myself as we host Chandrabhan Yadav for the final lecture of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY) Friday, May 16 10:00am EDT / 19:30 IST (on MSTeams) Please register VIA QR CODE BELOW!