Stewart N. Gordon (born January 2, 1945) is an American-born historian, teacher, lecturer, writer, and consultant. Biography Gordon was trained at the University of Michigan (BA, MA, PhD) in Asian history and sociology. He is currently a senior research fellow of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan with specialties in pre-colonial South Asian history, trans-regional Asian history and World history. Gordon has consulted with several public school districts on new strategies for the teaching of World history. He has consulted for series on the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. His invited lectures include Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, University of California Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Geographical Society, University of Pune (India), and the Asia Society. He has received a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Scholarship, Fulbright Program Fellowships, American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowships, an American Geographical Society Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council Fellowship, and an Earhart Foundation Fellowship. In 2015 he was inducted as an honorary fellow of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. Work Social structure and social disruption His early publications dealt with social structure and social disruption in eighteenth century India, using documents in Modi script from the eighteenth century Maratha Empire. Re-current themes in this research were networks and supply chains, the impact of military recruiting and financing, overseas demand for Indian goods, and the meaning of conquest. This strand of research culminated in the publication of the book Marathas, Marauders, and State Formation in Eighteenth Century India (Oxford University Press, 1994) a set of historical essays that challenges assumptions about the century between the Mughal empire and the British colonial period in India. He is the author of The New Cambridge History of India : Marathas 1600–1818 (Cambridge University Press, 1993), which series is considered the world authority on the history of India. Trans-Asian themes In the last two decades his interests have widened to trans-Asian themes, particularly features of elite culture that spanned Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Europe in the Middle Ages. He has explored ceremonial robes of honor, the use of the royal umbrella, the history of chess, and shared cuisine. The first fruits of these wider themes were two books on ceremonial honorific robing, Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture