Boston College teaching record

Prasannan Parthasarathi

Professor

History

Biography

Professor Parthasarathi joined the faculty in the fall of 1998. He teaches courses on modern South Asia, global history, and environmental history. He is now engaged in a study of environmental change, agriculture, and labor in nineteenth-century South India. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Dibner Institute, the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Radcliffe Institute. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals, among them International Labor and Working Class History, Textile History, and the Medieval History Journal. In 2020, he co-curated Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College.

Official evaluation summary

4.56 / 5

Based on 150 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

HIST1505 Planet in Peril: The History and Future of Human Impacts on the Planet
Instructor rating 4.52 / 5 · Course rating 4.42 / 5 · 78 responses
Taught Fall 2024, Spring 2023
HIST4090 From the Mughals to Modi: The Making of Modern South Asia
Instructor rating 4.93 / 5 · Course rating 4.71 / 5 · 28 responses
Taught Fall 2025, Spring 2024
SOCY1509 Planet in Peril: The History and Future of Human Impacts on the Planet
Instructor rating 4.46 / 5 · Course rating 4.43 / 5 · 28 responses
Taught Spring 2023
HIST9898 Dissertation Seminar
Instructor rating 4.31 / 5 · Course rating 4.19 / 5 · 16 responses
Taught Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
HIST4901 Readings and Research: Independent Study
Taught Spring 2027
HIST4962 Honors Thesis
Taught Spring 2027
HIST4921 Advanced Independent Research
Taught Fall 2026

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