Crispin Bates
Professor · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences · University of Edinburgh
Quick answer: Crispin Bates is Professor at University of Edinburgh. Crispin Bates shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. I welcome applications for PhD supervision, especially in the field of Indian and Indian Ocean social history in the modern and early modern periods.
Research interests
South Asia and Indian Ocean; Comparative & Global History; Economic History; Imperialism; Politics; Society; War; Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century & After; Indian labour and labour migration, Gandhi and the Indian Independence Movement, Orientalism and colonial discourse, social, economic and political movements in contemporary India, Adivasi (tribal) art and representation.
Selected publications (since 2023)
Guest Editor, Crossing the Indian Ocean: the oceanic flow of cultures and ideas, Monsoon, 3, 2 (Nov 2025).
C. Bates (ed). Beyond Indenture: Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora (Cambridge University 2024).
C. Bates and Ashutosh Kumar (eds.), Girmityas and the Global Indian Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
C. Bates, M. Carter and Khal Torabully. Coolitude, the concept, its resonances and afterlives. Special issue of Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies. 2023. Vol. 3(1):1-13.
'Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present: a roundtable', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 26, 3, Winter 2025.
'Chettiars and the Churning of Identities in the Colonial Indian Ocean Diaspora' (with M. Carter) in "Gyres", Indian Ocean and Beyond: Disco
Frequently asked questions
Is Crispin Bates hiring PhD students at University of Edinburgh?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Crispin Bates's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. I welcome applications for PhD supervision, especially in the field of Indian and Indian Ocean social history in the modern and early modern periods..
What does Crispin Bates research?
South Asia and Indian Ocean; Comparative & Global History; Economic History; Imperialism; Politics; Society; War; Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century & After; Indian labour and labour migration, Gandhi and the Indian Independence Movement, Orientalism and colonial discourse, so
Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.
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