Thomas Metcalf

Biographic Data

ID685950
NAMEThomas Metcalf
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMEMetcalf
SIGNATUREMETCALF T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-1594-8203
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Is AI-Produced Humanities Scholarship a Case of Research Misconduct

    Open AccessThomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2026

    As large language-models (“LLMs”) become increasingly capable of producing publishable scholarship, researchers have acquired the ability to personalize LLMs with their own style and academic values to generate entire manuscripts: a practice this paper calls “persona authorship.” This paper investigates whether submitting such AI-generated manuscripts in the humanities under the human author’s name, especially without disclosure, constitutes intr…

  • AI safety and regulatory capture

    Open AccessThomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEAI & Society2026

    Researchers, politicians, and the general public support safety regulations on the production and use of AI technology. Yet regulations on new technology are susceptible to the harmful phenomenon of regulatory capture, in which organizations and institutions with economic or political power exert that power to use regulations to unjustly enrich themselves. Only a few authors have tried to raise the alarm about regulatory capture in AI safety and …

  • Cornelius Cardew's Camouflage and Bun No. 2

    Open AccessThomas MetcalfARTICLEMusic Analysis2023References: 1

    Cornelius Cardew's Bun No . 2 (1964) provides a unique opportunity to reconcile the composer's indeterminate graphic score Treatise (1963–7) with a more determinately scored orchestral work which uses orthodox staff notation. It represents an amalgamation of Cardew's approach to two notational systems that, owing to their concurrence of use in his oeuvre, can inform our understanding of how graphic scores can be used in determinate compositional …

  • In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2023

    In this stimulating volume, Taglliacozzo endeavors, as he puts it in the introduction, “to tie together the maritime history of Asia into a single interconnected web” (4). In six parts and fourteen chapters, he roams the Indian Ocean seeking connections that link, over the centuries, the Ocean’s varied shores. At its center, not surprisingly, is global trade. But he also includes the rise of empires—“colonial circuits” as he calls them—and the sp…

  • The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1842-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2022

    Gardner gives us a comprehensive account, at once compelling and authoritative, of what he calls the “frontier complex” along the high Himalayas from its early exploration to the 1962 war between India and China. An initial introductory chapter examines the meanings of frontiers, borders, and borderlands in the context of contemporary theories of space and place. He then proceeds to an account of the precolonial history of Ladakh. This high desol…

  • The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century by Thomas Simpson

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2021

  • Graphical Data Sets as Compositional Structure: Sonification of Color Graphs in RGB for Clarinet and Piano

    Thomas MetcalfARTICLELeonardo2021Cited by: 1

    This article follows the methodology behind the composition of the author's piece RGB (2019) for clarinet and piano, a sonification of four color graphs generated from Jackson Pollock's Out of the Web (1949). The article demonstrates the process of "mapping" data to sound while creating allowances for compositional intuition. In this way, the author hopes to demonstrate the usefulness and flexibility of composing with this approach, as well as it…

  • Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfBOOKImperial Connections2019

    An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern …

  • Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants by Sunil Amrith (review)

    Thomas MetcalfARTICLEHistoire sociale2015

  • Liberalism and Empire

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2014

    Liberalism and Empire Thomas R. Metcalf liberalism, British Empire, imperialism, Indian intellectual history, Indian political thought C. A. Bayly, Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire. Gregory Claeys, Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850–1920. These two volumes, among only a scattered handful of others in the Ideas in Context series, examine the responses of varied thinkers to the moral and polit…

  • Colonial Cities

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of Cities In…2013

  • A Concise History of Modern India

    Open AccessBarbara D Metcalf, Thomas R Metcalf et al.BOOKConcise History of Modern India2012

    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through the Congress electoral victory of 2009, to the rise …

  • Crafting the Nation in Colonial India

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEThe Journal of Imperial &…2010

    Crafting the Nation in Colonial India." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(3), pp. 516–517

  • Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (review)

    Thomas MetcalfARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2007

    Reviewed by: Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier Thomas R. Metcalf Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors. By Charles S. Maier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. Charles Maier’s Among Empires, a refreshingly original and thoughtful book, provides an excellent introduction to the daunting question of how to define and identify empires, as well as tracing out the proce…

  • Omniscience and maximal power

    Open AccessThomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEReligious Studies2004

    This essay examines a conflict between God's omnipotence and His omniscience. I discuss our intuitions regarding omnipotence and omniscience and describe a method by which we can decide whether a being is omnipotent. I consider the most promising versions of omnipotence and argue that they produce a genuine conflict with omniscience. Finally, I suggest that we can take the example of omniscience and generalize it to several of God's essential pro…

  • Indian subcontinent: Architecture from the 19th century–1947

    Raymond Head, Thomas R Metcalf et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Architecture in the British Empire

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfCHAPTERThe Oxford history of the British…1999

    Any assessment of architecture within the British Empire must take into account both the historic monuments of the colonized territories and colonial architecture. The notion of decline at once made possible an appreciation of India’s ancient architecture, and yet, as the two cultures diverged ever more dramatically, paved the way for British colonial conquest. As the Empire expanded across the globe, the British themselves, as settlers and as ru…

  • Colonial Urbanism in the French and British Empires

    Open AccessThomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLEJournal of Urban History1996

  • Ideologies of the Raj

    Open AccessThomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfBOOKIdeologies of the Raj1995

    Ideologies of the Raj examines how the British sought to justify their rule over India. The author argues that two divergent strategies were devised to legitimate their authority: the one defined characteristics which the Indians shared with the British themselves, while the other emphasised qualities of enduring 'difference'. In the end, however, the differences predominated in the colonial view of India. Since the British constructed few explic…

  • Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

  • Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India

    Thomas Metcalf, Gyan PrakashARTICLEEthnohistory1992

  • Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfREVIEWThe American Historical Review1984

    LIST OF MAPS PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS NOTES ON THE USE OF INDIAN WORDS AND ON GEOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION 1. PROLOGUE: WAR AND SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA 2. AGRICULTURE, ECOLOGY, AND POLITICS 3. STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE CITIES, 1780-1810 4. THE RISE OF THE CORPORATIONS 5. THE GROWTH OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN INDIA, 1780-1830 6. THE INDIGENOUS ORIGINS OF THE 'COLONIAL ECONOMY' 7. THE CRISIS OF THE NORTH INDIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1825-45 8. CON…

  • Architecture and the Representation of Empire: India, 1860-1910

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas MetcalfARTICLERepresentations1984Cited by: 5

    No sooner had Smith taken his seat than William Emerson, who had just completed a design in an Indic style for a college in Allahabad, rose to dissent. The British, he maintained, should not carry into India a new style of architecture, but rather should follow the example of those whom they had supplanted as rulers, the Muslims, who seized upon the art indigenous to the countries conquered, adapting to suit their own needs and ideas. Indeed, he …

  • Land, Landlords, and the British Raj. Northern India in the Nineteenth Century

    Rosane Rocher, Thomas R Metcalf et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1982

  • Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and Their Critics, 1793-1905

    Thomas R Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1982