Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

{{Short description|German-American political scientist (1930–2015)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

| birth_name = Susanne Hoeber

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|4|3}}

| birth_place = Mannheim, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|12|23|1930|4|3}}

| death_place = Oakland, California, U.S.

| occupation = Author, Educationist, Political thinker

| spouse = Lloyd Rudolph

| awards = {{plainlist|

Padma Bhushan
William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago

}}

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (April 3, 1930 – December 23, 2015) was an American author, political thinker and educationist. She was a William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and was actively interested in Politics, Political Economy and Political Sociology of South Asia, State Formation, Max Weber and the Politics of Category and Culture.{{cite web | url=http://political-science.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/srudolph.shtml | title=University of Chicago | access-date=July 28, 2014}} The Government of India, in 2014, honored her, along with her husband, Lloyd I. Rudolph, for their services to literature and education, by bestowing on them the third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.{{cite web | url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=102735 | title=Govt announcement | access-date=July 28, 2014}}

Biography

{{quotebox|align = left|qalign=center|width=24em|We write as insiders and outsiders, insiders because for over five decades, from locations in Chicago and Jaipur, we have studied Indian politics, and outsiders because..., says Susanne Rudolph, we seek to be reflexive political scientists of India}}

Susanne Höber was the granddaughter of physiologist Rudolf Höber and daughter of Johannes Höber and Elfriede Fischer Höber, both of whom held doctoral degrees in political science from Heidelberg University. As an activist in Germany's Social Democratic Party, Johannes was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1934 and forced to move from Mannheim, where Susanne was born in 1930,{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkA8AQAAIAAJ&q=Susanne+Hoeber+Rudolph+born+1930 | title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation| last1=Foundation| first1=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial| year=1969}} to Düsseldorf. In 1939, when Susanne was nine, the family fled the Nazis and moved to Philadelphia, where Rudolf Höber was a professor{{cite web|url=https://hoebers.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/1933-the-emergency-committee-in-aid-of-displaced-german-scholars/|title=1933: The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars | author=Frank Hoeber|work=WordPress|access-date=December 30, 2015|date=2013-07-08 }} at the University of Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=https://hoebers.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/75th-anniversary-of-a-memorable-day/|title=75th Anniversary of a Memorable Day| author=Frank Hoeber|work=WordPress|access-date=December 30, 2015|date=2014-11-05}}

Susanne Rudolph had her early college education at Sarah Lawrence College from where she obtained her BA in 1951 which she followed with an MA from Harvard University in 1953. Continuing her education, she secured her PhD from Radcliffe College in 1955. She taught political science at Harvard University until 1963, when the University of Chicago simultaneously offered her and her husband, Lloyd Rudolph, professorial positions. She joined University of Chicago in 1964 where she worked as the William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Political Science.{{cite web | url=http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/01/27/five-eminent-personalities-us-get-padma-awards-3-indian-americans/ | title=Five eminent personalities from the US get Padma awards, 3 of them Indian Americans|work=American Bazaar | access-date=July 29, 2014| date=2014-01-27}}

Susanne was married to Lloyd I. Rudolph, himself a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the co-author of her books. The couple has three children, Jenny, Amelia and Matthew.{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/Lloyd-I.-Rudolph/e/B000APA9QK | title=Amazon Bio | website=Amazon | access-date=July 29, 2014}} Susanne, along with her husband, divided their time between the USA and India, where they found a home in Jaipur.{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/an-insiders-view-an-outsiders-eye/ | title=An insider's view, an outsider's eye| author-link = Ashutosh Varshney| author=Varshney, Ashutosh|work=Indian Express |date=February 5, 2014 | access-date=July 29, 2014}}

Susanne Rudolph died on December 24, 2015.{{Cite web | url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/susanne-hoeber-rudolph-1930--2015/296296 |title = Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (1930–2015)}}

Career

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph has served in many capacities of importance during her career.

President - Association for Asian Studies (1986)
President - American Political Science Association (2003–2004)
Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division
Director of the Center for International Studies
Director of the South Asia Language and Area Center (1980–1998)
Chair of the Department of Political Science
Faculty — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1964)
Associate Professor — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1964–72)
Professor — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1972-)
Associate Dean of the College, University of Chicago (1973–75)
William Benton Distinguished Service Professor — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (1990-)
Professor Emerita — Department of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (2002-)

Legacy

Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph's associations with the University of Chicago and India have assisted in the University's decision to open a major academic centre in New Delhi. The centre is envisaged to act as a platform for mutual support and collaboration between students and scholars from India and Chicago in the areas of academics and research.

Awards and recognitions

Padma Bhushan - 2014
William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita
India Abroad Friend of India Award - {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyLND7OpXvI | title=India Abroad | website=YouTube | access-date=July 29, 2014}}

Works

Susanne Rudolph has authored eight books, together with her husband, Lloyd Rudolph. The writings of Susanne were compiled by Oxford University Press, in 2008, into a three volume publication under the name, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective.{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/report/padma-honour-for-american-professors-lloyd-and-susanne-rudolph/20140126.htm | title=Rediff 1 | access-date=July 29, 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/news/report/ls-election-narendra-modi-is-trying-to-re-invent-himself/20140331.htm | title=Rediff 2 | access-date=July 29, 2014}}

{{cite book

| title = Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective

| author = Susanne Rudolph, Lloyd Rudolph

| date = January 24, 2008

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| isbn =978-0-19-569365-2

}}

The other major works by Susanne Rudolph are:

{{cite book

| title = Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays — Gandhi in the World and at Home

|author1=Susanne Rudolph |author2=Lloyd Rudolph | date = October 10, 2006

| publisher = University of Chicago Press

| isbn =978-0-226-73124-7

}}

{{cite book

| title = Transnational Religion and Fading States

|author1=Susanne Rudolph |author2=Lloyd Rudolph | date = November 22, 1996

| publisher = Westview Press

| isbn =978-0-8133-2768-6

}}

{{cite journal

| url = https://www.jstor.org/journal/britjeducstud

| title = Education and Politics in India

| journal = British Journal of Educational Studies (Wiley)

|author1=Susanne Rudolph |author2=Lloyd Rudolph | year = 2008

| publisher = British Journal of Educational Studies

| issn =0007-1005

}}

{{cite book

| title = In Pursuit of Lakshmi: the Political Economy of the Indian State

| url = https://archive.org/details/inpursuitoflaksh00rudo

| url-access = registration

|author1=Susanne Rudolph |author2=Lloyd Rudolph | date = April 15, 1987

| publisher = University of Chicago Press

| isbn =978-0-226-73139-1

}}

{{cite book

| title = Essays on Rajputana: Reflections on History, Culture and Administration

|author1=Susanne Rudolph |author2=Lloyd Rudolph | date = March 1, 1985

| publisher = University of Chicago Press

| isbn =978-0-391-03129-6

}}

{{cite book

| title = Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary — A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India

| publisher = Basic Books

| isbn =978-0-391-03129-6

}}

{{cite book

| title = Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency

| author1 = Susanne Rudolph

| author2 = Lloyd Rudolph

| date = May 25, 2008

| publisher = Indiana University Press

| isbn = 978-0-253-22000-4

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/makingusforeignp00lloy

}}

{{cite book

| title = The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India

|author1=Susanne Rudolph |author2=Lloyd Rudolph | date = July 15, 1984

| publisher = University of Chicago Press

| isbn =978-0-226-73137-7

}}

She has also edited the book, Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/agrarianpoweragr00rudr | title=Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia | publisher=University of California Press | author1=Susanne Rudolph | author2=Meghnath Desai | author3=Ashok Rudra | location=California | isbn=978-0-520-05369-4 | date=1984-01-01 | url-access=registration }} besides writing many articles, some of which are:

{{cite journal | title=The Imperialism of Categories; Situating Knowledge in a Globalizing World | author=Susanne Rudolph | journal=Perspectives on Politics |date=March 2005 | volume=3 | issue=1}}
{{cite journal | title=Perestroika and Its Other | author=Susanne Rudolph | journal=Perestroika! Revolution in the Social Sciences — Kristin Renwick Monroe (Ed.)| year=2005 | publisher=Oxford University Press| title-link=Perestroika }}
{{cite journal | title=Engaging Subjective Knowledge: Narratives of and by the Self in the Amar Singh Diary | author=Susanne Rudolph | journal=Of Narratives, Narrators — Rajul Bhargava Shubhshree (Ed.)| year=2004 | publisher=Rawat Publications}}
{{cite book| chapter=Toward Convergence | author=Susanne Rudolph | title=Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: Proofs |chapter-url=http://www.cambridge.org/nz/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/research-methods-politics/problems-and-methods-study-politics|editor1=Ian Shapiro|editor-link=Ian Shapiro|editor2=Rogers M. Smith|editor2-link=Rogers M. Smith|editor3=Tarek E. Masoud | year=2004 | publisher=Yale University Press}}
{{cite journal | title=The Iconisation of Chandrababu; Sharing Sovereignty in India's Federal Market Economy | author=Susanne Rudolph | journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=May 2001 | volume=XXXVI | issue=18| title-link=Chandrababu Naidu }}
{{cite journal | title=Living With Difference in India; Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context | author=Susanne Rudolph | journal=Political Quarterly |date=July 2000 }}

External links

India Abroad acceptance speech
CSDS Golden Jubilee Lecture{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Upf9c3J4AQ | title=CSDS Lecture | website=YouTube | access-date=July 29, 2014}}
CSDS Golden Jubilee Lecture Introduction{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNWFhPCm6AQ | title=CSDS Intro | website=YouTube | access-date=July 29, 2014}}
India Abroad Award and Friends of India Celebration Video{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6U11yB1kNI | title=Friends of India | website=YouTube | access-date=July 29, 2014}}
List of Books on Barnes & Noble{{cite web | url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/lloyd-i.-rudolph | title=Barnes & Noble | access-date=July 29, 2014}}
List of Books on Book Manager{{cite web | url=http://www.bookmanager.com/librmod/?q=h.ts&tsf=y&or_qs=Rudolph,%20Susanne&or_opt=au | title=Book Manager | access-date=July 29, 2014}}