{"id":1134,"date":"2023-11-17T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/?page_id=1134"},"modified":"2024-09-02T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:13:20","slug":"julia-stephens-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/julia-stephens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Julia Stephens is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her research explores how law has shaped religion, family, and economy in colonial and post-colonial South Asia and in the wider Indian diaspora. Her first book, <em>Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2018), moves between official archives of colonial law and wider spheres of public debates, bringing into conversation vernacular pamphlets and newspapers, Urdu <em>fatwas<\/em>,<em> <\/em>colonial legal cases, and legislative deliberations. Drawing on these wide-ranging legal archives, the book explores how colonial law constructed a new religious\/secular binary that was deeply influential, and vibrantly contested inside and outside colonial courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, she is working on a project on inheritance and diasporic Indian families, tentatively titled <em>Worldly Afterlives: Death and Diaspora in the Indian Ocean<\/em>. The project traces the lives of Indian migrants by looking at the assets they left behind after their deaths. These estates ranged from mercantile fortunes to a few treasured personal effects, including letters, jewelry, or a pocketful of receipts for small debts owed by fellow travelers. This archive provides a window into the intersecting histories of diasporic families and the formation of state bureaucracies for managing global flows of labor and capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Stephens is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her research explores how law has shaped religion, family, and economy in colonial and post-colonial South Asia and in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002712,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1134","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}