Robin Bannerman Jeffrey is a Canadian-born professor. His primary research interest is the modern history and politics of India, especially with reference the northern area of

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

and

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

in the south. He is also interested in Indian media studies and

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Life

Robin Jeffrey was born in Canada. He studied first at the University of Victoria,

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, Canada, from where he graduated with a BA degree. He was awarded a D.Phil. in modern Indian history by the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

, England, in 1973 and had previously worked as a school teacher in

Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...

, India, for the Regional Institute of English and the Canadian University Service Overseas between 1967 and 1969. His first employment had been in 1963 as a sports writer for a small daily newspaper in Canada. Jeffrey took up a position as a research fellow at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

upon completion of his doctorate. He has taught at that institution in

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during two different periods. He taught politics at La Trobe University,

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, Australia, between 1979 and 2005, where he became a professor. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, having been previously elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994. , Jeffrey is an

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of La Trobe University and the Australian National University. He chairs an advisory panel of the Australia India Institute within the

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, Australia. He was a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, based at the

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, since 2009. In 2011, when concentrating on media and development studies, Jeffrey said that

Publications

Jeffrey's published works include:

Author

* – his DPhil thesis * * * * * * (co-authored with Assa Doron and published by Hatchette in India as ''Cell Phone Nation'') *''Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018 (co-authored with Assa Doron).

Editor

*''Media and Work in China and India'' (co-editor with Ronojoy Sen) * (with Ronojoy Sen and Pratima Singh) * (with Edward Aspinall and Anthony Regan) * (co-editor with Ronojoy Sen) *

References

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Curriculum vitae, as of 2010
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jeffrey, Robin Living people 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Historians of India Academic staff of the Australian National University Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Alumni of the University of Sussex Academic staff of La Trobe University Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Academic staff of the University of Melbourne University of Victoria alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of Kerala 21st-century Australian historians