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Biography
[edit | edit source]Ania Loomba, born august 7th 1955, studied at both the university of Delhi and the University of Sussex where she received her PhD.
Her parents where both members of the communist party, her father a trade unionist and her mother a schoolteacher.
Ania loomba biography for kids
Much of her life has been influenced by activism, Marxist theory, feminist theory and the civil rights movement within India and Britain especially. She also found the Miners strike in Britain in the 70s as she was a student in Sussex at the time (Johnson[1]).
She is currently employed at the university of Pennsylvania as the Catherine Bryson Professor of English. She is the 2024 winner of The Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture, a lecture awarded to members of the American Council of learned Societies to honour scholarly achievement within their career[2].
Like the scholar the award is named for much of Loomba’s work is