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 (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

and

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a 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 regions of Cochin, Malabar, South C ...

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

Life

Robin Jeffrey was born in Canada. He studied first at the

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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 , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

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

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which ...

, 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

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at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

upon completion of his doctorate. He has taught at that institution in Canberra during two different periods. He taught politics at

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora, Victoria, Bundoora. The university was established in 196 ...

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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 An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations ( research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

, 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

External links

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