Mitra Sharafi
@mitrasharafi.bsky.social
Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel! Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
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This is the real challenge: there are lots of ways to maintain education in the AI age. But all of them require more class time and smaller classes. Who is going to pay for that?
I appreciate the approach these professors are taking, but once again, it's missing some context. How many students are enrolled in these classes? Is it possible to take this AI-resistant approach in a class of 30, 40, 50+ students...?
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is the real challenge: there are lots of ways to maintain education in the AI age. But all of them require more class time and smaller classes. Who is going to pay for that?
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Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War
We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social
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Want to learn about medieval coroners, tithings & the frankpledge system, crime & punishment, peacekeeping, the hue & cry, amercements, etc? Then check out my article “The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England”.
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The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England*
Abstract. This article examines how far centrally-directed structures of peacekeeping influenced communal reactions to criminality in thirteenth-century En
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November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Want to learn about medieval coroners, tithings & the frankpledge system, crime & punishment, peacekeeping, the hue & cry, amercements, etc? Then check out my article “The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England”.
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
academic.oup.com/histres/arti...
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
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White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
Just out: symposium on my article on abortion in colonial India, featuring comments by 3 historians of abortion in other times and places: Melissa Feinberg, Matthew Sommer, Philippa Levine. Open Access. I love the comparative insights that came out of this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428. | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core
Symposium on Mitra Sharafi, ‘Abortion in South Asia, 1860–1947: A medico-legal history’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 2, 2021, pp. 371–428. - Volume 59 Issue 2
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Just out: symposium on my article on abortion in colonial India, featuring comments by 3 historians of abortion in other times and places: Melissa Feinberg, Matthew Sommer, Philippa Levine. Open Access. I love the comparative insights that came out of this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
Worldly Afterlives
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations
press.princeton.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
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New book alert, absolute must-read for anyone interested in the history of US empire and international law:
Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
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Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
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November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New book alert, absolute must-read for anyone interested in the history of US empire and international law:
Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
There were 2 standing ovations at #ASLH awards ceremony in Detroit last weekend--one for Ari Bryen as outgoing secretary and the other for Gautham Rao as Law and History Review editor. Ari and Gautham have done so much, for years, for our legal history community of scholars.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There were 2 standing ovations at #ASLH awards ceremony in Detroit last weekend--one for Ari Bryen as outgoing secretary and the other for Gautham Rao as Law and History Review editor. Ari and Gautham have done so much, for years, for our legal history community of scholars.
I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
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At #ASLH where @tannerallread.bsky.social Tanner Allread accepts the Kathryn T. Preyer Award!
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
At #ASLH where @tannerallread.bsky.social Tanner Allread accepts the Kathryn T. Preyer Award!
One lucky winner of New Works in Legal History raffle at Detroit #ASLH 2025 @kalramnath.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
One lucky winner of New Works in Legal History raffle at Detroit #ASLH 2025 @kalramnath.bsky.social
Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
Lots of talk about Mississippi Masala & Monsoon Wedding rn, but my favorite film by Mira Nair (with Sooni Taraporevala) is Salaam Bombay (1988), especially for the tragic storyline of a young girl pulled into prostitution by the man she thinks is her 1st boyfriend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaLf...
Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | 50 Films I Love | Film Companion
YouTube video by Film Companion Studios
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November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Lots of talk about Mississippi Masala & Monsoon Wedding rn, but my favorite film by Mira Nair (with Sooni Taraporevala) is Salaam Bombay (1988), especially for the tragic storyline of a young girl pulled into prostitution by the man she thinks is her 1st boyfriend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaLf...
Thank you, Gautham! Legal historians everywhere are so lucky to have had you as LHR editor
It’s been a hell of a run. Being Editor of @lawandhistrev.bsky.social has been the greatest honor of my career. But it had to end some time. I’ll be stepping down as Editor by next summer. I’ll give proper thanks to LHR’s Associate Editors & ASLH folks in due course. What a bittersweet moment!
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thank you, Gautham! Legal historians everywhere are so lucky to have had you as LHR editor
Just discovered the work of Azadeh Akhlaghi, who photographs staged recreations of famous moments in Iranian history (usually assassinations). An interesting visual genre at the intersection of photography and history: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Azadeh Akhlaghi: the photographer who stages murders in Iran
Akhlaghi recreates Iran's most notorious death scenes from the time before cameraphones – from the mysterious end of Iran's gold-medal wrestler to the controversial poet who swerved her car to avoid a...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just discovered the work of Azadeh Akhlaghi, who photographs staged recreations of famous moments in Iranian history (usually assassinations). An interesting visual genre at the intersection of photography and history: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The Annual Conference on South Asia just wrapped up in Madison--now in its *53rd year.* Thanks to @andreafowler13.bsky.social, Sarah Beckham and their amazing @uw-madsouthasia.bsky.social team for making it all happen. Such an energizing place to share research, as always!
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Annual Conference on South Asia just wrapped up in Madison--now in its *53rd year.* Thanks to @andreafowler13.bsky.social, Sarah Beckham and their amazing @uw-madsouthasia.bsky.social team for making it all happen. Such an energizing place to share research, as always!
For legal historians: did you publish a book recently that won't be represented at the Detroit ASLH conference book sale in Nov.2025? You should bring a copy for this new initiative to showcase your work! Much needed as only a few publishers are represented at the book sale: aslh.net/new-works-in...
New Works in Legal History: Displays at the Detroit Meeting | American Society for Legal History
New Works in Legal History: Many legal historians publish books with presses that are not represented at the conference book sale. In recognition of this fact, the ASLH will host a table to showcase t...
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September 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For legal historians: did you publish a book recently that won't be represented at the Detroit ASLH conference book sale in Nov.2025? You should bring a copy for this new initiative to showcase your work! Much needed as only a few publishers are represented at the book sale: aslh.net/new-works-in...
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@legalhistoryblog.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @grisinger.bsky.social @mitrasharafi.bsky.social @awcohen.bsky.social @marydudziak.bsky.social @serenamayeri.bsky.social Last call! Extended deadline from ASLH Projects & Proposals for legal history. Due 9/19 - see ASLH website for details.
September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@legalhistoryblog.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @grisinger.bsky.social @mitrasharafi.bsky.social @awcohen.bsky.social @marydudziak.bsky.social @serenamayeri.bsky.social Last call! Extended deadline from ASLH Projects & Proposals for legal history. Due 9/19 - see ASLH website for details.
Just learned that UW-Madison has a historical cookbook collection (with a wobbly center of jello recipes): onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/now-were-coo...
Now We’re Cookin’ | On Wisconsin
For 60 years, UW’s Steenbock Library has been growing its cookbook collection.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just learned that UW-Madison has a historical cookbook collection (with a wobbly center of jello recipes): onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/now-were-coo...
Can anyone recommend good memoirs set in Ireland?
September 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Can anyone recommend good memoirs set in Ireland?
Calling all legal historians! The ASLH Projects and Proposals funding application deadline has been extended--from Sept.1 to Sept.18, 2025. If you're looking for funding for a legal history workshop or other initiative (the Call is very broad), you should apply: aslh.net/projects-pro...
Projects & Proposals Funding Deadline Extended | American Society for Legal History
The ASLH is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for Projects and Proposals funding until 9/18. The goal of P&P is the "funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and producti...
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September 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Calling all legal historians! The ASLH Projects and Proposals funding application deadline has been extended--from Sept.1 to Sept.18, 2025. If you're looking for funding for a legal history workshop or other initiative (the Call is very broad), you should apply: aslh.net/projects-pro...
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Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social!
Releasing on 18 August.
Releasing on 18 August.
August 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social!
Releasing on 18 August.
Releasing on 18 August.