Education
Ph.D., Baylor University
Dr. Bindu Malieckal specializes in Early Modern and Postcolonial texts, with a focus on India, Asia, and Israel. Her publications include studies of Jews and Muslims; African slaves and Mughal women; the pre-modern spice trade and genocide.
She has presented her research at the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Association for Jewish Studies, the Asian Studies Development Program, at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Toronto, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Iceland, the University of Gothenburg, and elsewhere.
Dr. Malieckal has held prestigious research positions, including the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship at Harvard University’s Houghton Library and the John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Currently, Dr. Malieckal has two research appointments. She is an Research Associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, and she is a member of a research team, based at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain; the team is investigating violence in the early modern era and is funded by a grant from the government of Spain.
Dr. Malieckal is the recipient of a number of grants, most recently from the Israel Institute, to offer her course, “Israel, India, Jewish Women.”
From 2025-2028, Dr. Malieckal will be the Richard L. Bready Endowed Chair in Ethics, Economics, and the Common Good at Saint Anselm College.