Rosalind is a historian of modern South Asia and Programme Leader of MSc Human Rights. Her main thematic research interests are gender, women’s movements, and international processes of decolonisation.
She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and taught at the University of St Andrews before joining GCU in 2023.
Her PhD research focused on the international activities of anticolonial Indian women during the middle decades of the 20th century, a story that connected women’s activism to the global histories of decolonisation, international solidarities and human rights. This was the focus of her first book, Citizens of Everywhere. Indian women, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, 1920-1952, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
Current research topics explore histories of gender and development from the perspective of South Asia, including histories of women’s rights, health, education and family planning in the early postcolonial period. She also explores multi-scalar relationships between development spaces, from the local grassroots to the international conference, with a particular focus on transnational networks in and from the Global South.
Her research is published in Journal of Global History, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and Itinerario.