{"id":1737,"date":"2017-05-11T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/history\/?page_id=1737"},"modified":"2019-09-05T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:29:58","slug":"ram-sil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/faculty\/ram-sil\/","title":{"rendered":"Narasingha (Ram) Sil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/08\/Narasingha_Ram_-Sil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/files\/2015\/08\/Narasingha_Ram_-Sil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-982\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Narasingha Sil<\/h1>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">I studied at the University of Calcutta , India , where I earned a Masters Degree in Modern History. I also have earned Masters Degrees in History and Education from the University of Oregon . My latest degree also came from the University of Oregon , where I earned a Ph.D. in History. My father encouraged me to pursue an education (he was a lawyer in truth, if not in practice) and I fell in love with History. I have two areas of special interest: the political culture of 16<sup>th<\/sup> century England and the cultural history of 19<sup>th<\/sup> century India .<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Some courses I have developed and am developing are: Constitutional History of England , Seminar in Tudor England , History of West Africa , South Asian Nationalism, <span class=\"m_-6500250160106810415m_4317966219989330939gmail-GramE\">History<\/span> of the Modern Middle East . My teaching style includes lecture and writing (lots of writing). In my seminars, though, I like to mix the lecture with class discussion. I believe that communication through writing is one of the most important assets a college student can learn.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><i>For more information, contact Professor <span class=\"m_-6500250160106810415m_4317966219989330939gmail-SpellE\">Sil<\/span> at <a href=\"mailto:siln@wou.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">siln@wou.edu.<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narasingha Sil I studied at the University of Calcutta , India , where I earned a Masters Degree in Modern History. I also have earned Masters Degrees in History and Education from the University of Oregon . My latest degree also came from the University of Oregon , where I earned a Ph.D. in History. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":848,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1737","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}