Assistant Professor
Department of History

Nicholas Abbott

8010 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Expertise

History
Early Modern and Colonial South Asia, Early Modern Islamic World, State Formation and Political Culture, Gender and the Family

Articles

Abbott, N. J. (2022). 鈥業t all comes from me鈥: Bahu Begam and the making of the Awadh nawabi, circa 1765鈥1815. Modern Asian Studies .
Abbott, N. J. (2020). A Mulk of One's Own: Languages of Sovereignty, Statehood, and Dominion in the Eighteenth-Century 鈥淓mpire of Hindustan鈥. Itinerario 44 (3) , pp. 474鈥501.
Abbott, N. J. (2019). 鈥淚n that One the 膧lif is Missing鈥: Eunuchs and the Politics of Masculinity in Early Colonial North India. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63 (1鈥2) , pp. 73鈥116.

Books

Abbott, N. (2024). Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India: The Begams of Awadh. Edinburgh University Press.

Book Chapters

Abbott, N. J. (2018). "Bringing the Sark膩r Back In: Translating Patrimonialism and the State in Early Modern and Early Colonial India." State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood (pp. 124-37) Cambridge University Press.

Presentations

(May , 2022). Zabt and its Discontents: Property Confiscation, Patrimonial Kingship, and the Performance of Sovereignty in Mughal India, c. 1600鈥1800 Freie Universit盲t Berlin: 鈥淪overeignty, 1300-1800: Terrestrial and Maritime Negotiations鈥 .
(October , 2021). A Rule of Confiscation for Late-Mughal India: Zabt (鈥渆scheat鈥) in Eighteenth-Century Awadh 49th Annual Conference on South Asia .
(December , 2019). Sarkars into States: Language, Family, and Politics in Early Colonial North India Research Colloquium, Newberry Library (Chicago, IL) .
(March , 2019). Proprietary Sovereignty, Familial Finance, and the Making of the Shuja鈥檌 Dispensation: Awadh, 1765鈥75 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference .
(October , 2018). A Late-Mughal Westphalia? Provincial Borders, Regional Sovereignty, and the 1765 Treaties of Allahabad 47th Annual Conference on South Asia .
(October , 2018). A Mulk of one鈥檚 own? Sub-imperial Sovereignty and Territorial Statehood in Late-Mughal Persianate Diplomacy, 1757鈥1775 Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna: 鈥淏eyond the Islamicate Chancery鈥 .
(April , 2018). Cracked Backs and Crooked Waists: Eunuchs, Gender and Verbal Abuse in Early Modern Awadh Humboldt University, Berlin: 鈥淪ervants鈥 Pasts: 2nd International Conference鈥 .
(December , 2017). 鈥楢n Enemy of Our Family: Family, State, and Domestic Authority in the Awadh khord mahal, c. 1780鈥1815 Center for Historical Research, The Ohio State University: 鈥淔amily, Kinship and Households: New Perspectives鈥 .
(October , 2017). Patronage, Politics, and Persian Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Awadh 46th Annual Conference on South Asia .
(May , 2017). Gifts, Bribes, or the Cost of Doing Business? Regulating rishvat in Early Colonial India International Meeting on Law and Society .
(April , 2017). 鈥楤ut in this one the alif is missing鈥: Eunuchs and the Politics of Masculinity Annual Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison, 鈥淥rdinary Space, Extraordinary Living鈥 .
  • 2020: Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • 2019: National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Newberry Library
  • 2019: Summer Research Fellowship, 麻豆传媒 Research Foundation, 麻豆传媒
  • 2018: Summer Research Grant, College of Arts & Letters, 麻豆传媒
  • 2015: Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Historical Research, The Ohio State University
  • 2013: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education