Julia Stephens
Associate professor of history at Rutgers University and author of Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire (Princeton UP, 2025), specializing in histories of law, empire, and family in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.
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May 7, 2026 • 45min
Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Julia Stephens, an associate professor of history at Rutgers who studies law, empire, and family in South Asia, walks through archival sleuthing on migrants across the British Empire. She traces burial dramas, probate files, surveillance photos, and family memory. Short scenes focus on mobility, worldly afterlives, women’s networks, and how records shape modern migration debates.
May 7, 2026 • 45min
Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Julia Stephens, associate professor of history at Rutgers and author of Worldly Afterlives, draws on archives and family lore to trace Indian migrants across the 19th and 20th centuries. She follows figures like Thamboosamy Pillai, Jambai, and sailor John Muhammad. Listens to archival traces, funerals, legal records, photographs, and genealogies to rethink migration, memory, and imperial afterlives.
