Pure Science: Marie Curie and the American Gift

Wendy Singer is the Roy T. Wortman Professor of History and South Asian Studies at Kenyon College. She is author, recently, of Independent India (Routledge, 2012), a thematic history of India since independence that includes sources of art and literature. Believing in the power of storytelling that lies at the heart of history-writing, she is currently collaborating on creative writing workshops for academics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.