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Dr

Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan

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BIO

Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan is a Lecturer at La Trobe University and her preferred pronouns are she/her. She did her PhD at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. Her thesis examines the control of venereal disease and sexual surveillance in colonial South India. She received the highly competitive Miranda Jane Hughes Scholarship in 2020, awarded to a high-achieving graduate research student in the fields of historical, philosophical and social studies, language, literature and cultural studies of body, health or science; and was awarded the highly competitive Fellow's Essay Prize in 2023. She has recently published an article titled ‘Gomastahs, Peons, Police and Chowdranies: The Role of Indian Subordinate in the Functioning of the Lock Hospitals and the Indian Contagious Diseases Act, 1805 to 1889’ in NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Springer publication).

DEGREES

  • PhD, Medical History, Asian History, History of Empires, imperialism and colonialism, Gender history
    University of Melbourne, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts., Melbourne, Australia26 Feb 2018 - 31 Oct 2023

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Hindi
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Tamil
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Telugu
    Can speak and understand
  • Urdu
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write and speak
  • Malayalam
    Can speak and understand

EXPERTISE