Assistant Professor of History Lisa N. Trivedi traveled to Pune, India, to participate in a conference "Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia, 1750-1950," sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

Trivedi was invited by conference organizers, along with 16 other scholars from the United States, Great Britain, Japan and India, to participate in a two-day conference, December 15 and 16. Trivedi presented a paper "Health Matters: Mill Workers and Maternity Care in Bombay, 1920-1940."

This is the first presentation of research for her second book length study, "Bound By Cloth: women workers in Bombay and Lancashire, 1860-1940," conducted last year while she was in India on a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship.