Biography

Kaushik  Bagchi
Department: History & Historic Preservation
Title: associate professor of history (1993)
Degree: B.A., St. Stephen’s College, Delhi; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Website: http://faculty.goucher.edu/kbagchi/

Professor Bagchi has published on world history, Asian history, colonialism, and Orientalism. He has presented conference papers on topics such as the problem of chronology in thematically-structured world history courses, world-systems theory, and Orientalism. He has also delivered several presentations on using instructional technology in the college classroom. His courses at Goucher include World History; Gandhi; Frontiers: Third World Music and History; Comparative History of Colonialism in Asia; and China and India since Revolution and Independence. He also leads a Goucher study-abroad program to Ghana. Professor Bagchi speaks several languages including Bengali, Hindi, German, French, and Japanese