Joy L.K. Pachuau | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Joy L.K. Pachuau

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Historical Studies,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

313, SSS-III

jpachuau@jnu.ac.in, jpachuau@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/jpachuau/cv.pdf

Qualifications

D.Phil, University of Oxford, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Ph.D, Jawaharlal Nehru University, History
MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, History
MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, History
BA, Fergusson College, University of Poona, History

Areas of Interest/Specialization

European expansion in Asia in the 16th -17th centuries, history of Christianity in India and Asia, Sociocultural history of Northeast India, visual anthropology

Experience

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Professor, 2012-
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Associate Prof, 2006
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Asst. Prof, 1997

Awards & Honours

Fulbright Nehru Academic Excellence Fellowship, at University of Yale, 2016-17.
Being Mizo (2014) awarded “the Sneh Mahajan Prize for Best Book in Modern Indian History for 2012-14” by the Indian History Congress, 2015.
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool, 2015.
Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (2013).
UGC Major Research Project, 2011-2013, “Seeing the past through the visual; the creation of the photographic archive of the Mizos”.
Exchange Scholar, ICSSR-NWO Exchange Programme, 2011.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.
2. (With Willem van Schendel) Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
3. (With Willem van Schendel) The Camera as Witness. A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India, New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2015.