Philip Fredric McEldowney

       Curriculum Vita   Last revised: January 1995
        Philip McEldowney's Web Page

	*Education
	*Languages
	*Academic Experience
	*Teaching Appointments
	*Publications and Writings
	*Field Experience
	*Fellowships and Academic Awards

Address:  501 DRUID AVENUE
          CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902-6041
            Phone: 804-979-6112, Work 804-924-4987
		Email:philipmc@virginia.edu

Present   South Asia and Middle East Specialist, Collection
Position:   Development, Alderman Library, University of Virginia.
            1994 to the present.

Education: [MLS: Three-year program, courses began Fall 1992.
                 University of North Carolina-Greensboro.]
            PhD: History of Modern India, August 1980
                 University of Virginia.
            MA:  Comparative Tropical History, June 1967
                 University of Wisconsin.
            MA:  Indian Studies, June 1966
                 University of Wisconsin.
            BA:  History & Political Science, June 1963
                 Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.

Languages: Research competence in Hindi, Urdu, and German.
	    Read Devanagri and Shikasta (Urdu/Farsi) scripts.

Academic experience and positions:
     1987-93:  Library Assistant, South Asia collections and
                Bibliography, Alderman Library-University of
                Virginia
     1980:  Career Opportunities Institute for PhDs in the
                the Social Sciences and Humanities program at
                the McIntire School of Commerce, University of
                Virginia
     1971/72:  Research assistant on Indian Peasant Movements
                Project under Professor Walter Hauser, University
                of Virginia
     1966/67:  Library Assistant, University of Wisconsin,
                cataloging South Asian materials
     Summer 1965:  Research assistant, Development of undergraduate
                course materials and readings in the modern
                history of the non-Western world, University of
                Wisconsin

Teaching appointments:
     1986/87:  Department of History, University of Virginia.
                 Upperdivision course on Modern India
     1985/86:  Department of History, James Madison University,
                 Harrisonburg, Virginia.  Courses on History of the
                 Modern Middle East
     1982/83:  Department of History, Appalachian State University,
                 Boone, N. C. History of World Civilization courses
     1976/77:  Department of History, Longwood College, Farmville,
                 Virginia.  Courses on Modern History of India, and
                 South Asian Civilization
     1967-1970:  Department of Area Studies, State University
                 College, Oneonta, N. Y.  Courses titled History of
                 Modern India, Civilization of South Asia, and
                 History of Modern Africa, three years
     Summer 1967: Peace Corps Training Program, University of
                 California, Riverside.  Lectures on Indian
                 culture, society and politics
     Summer 1965: Peace Corps Training Program, University of
                 Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  Lectures on Indian
                 culture, society and politics

Publications and writings:
   Colonialism in an Indian Hinterland by D.E.U. Baker - "Book
     Review," Journal of Asian Studies, 53 (Aug '94), 958-9. 
   Articles and Reviews in the University of Virginia South Asia
     Center's Newsletter, and publication (monthly) of "Selected
     Cataloged Materials on South Asia," University of Virginia,
     1987 to the present.
   Colonial Administration and Social Developments in Middle India:
     the Central Provinces, 1861-1921, PhD dissertation, University
     of Virginia, 1980.
   "A Brief Study of the Pindaris of Madhya Pradesh," Indian
     Cultures Quarterly, 27 (1971), 35-70.
    Library Science Papers, 1990s

Field   Research in archives and libraries, and interviews; state
Work:     archives in central India (Bhopal and Nagpur), district
          libraries in Hoshangabad, Raipur, and Jabalpur, national
          archives in Delhi, both in 1989/90 and 1975.
        Research and interviews in England (India Office Library,
          British Museum, Oxford University, Cambridge University,
          etc.), 1989, and 1972/1973.

Travel: Fulbright College Teachers' Seminar on Indian Civilization:
          travel and seminars around India (Bombay, Poona,
          Aurangabad, Hyderabad, Madras, Mysore, Halebid, Calcutta,
          Varanasi, Jaipur, Agra, Delhi, Simla), and individual
          trip through Africa (Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Entebe, Accra
          to London), 1968.
        Trips to and from India through Europe and the Far East
          during childhood, 1941-1959, also within India between
          Mussoorie and Jabalpur and trip to southern India.

Fellowships and academic awards:
     1989/90:  Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies,
               research in the archives of central India on its
               modern history and surveying archival holdings
     1976/77:  Outreach coordinator and teaching intern, Center for
               South Asian Studies, University of Virginia
     1974/75:  Junior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies,
               for dissertation research in India
     1972/73:  Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Award,
               for dissertation research in the United Kingdom
     Summer 1968: Fulbright award to participate in Seminar for
                  College Teachers of Indian Civilization, in India
     1963-1966: Three Annual NDFL (Title VI) Language and Area
                 Fellowships (South Asia), University of Wisconsin