Asia

Mou Banerjee

Mou Banerjee

Associate, Research Cluster on Global Transformations
Assistant Professor of History, Clemson University

Mou Banerjee received her PhD from Harvard University in 2018, where she recently received the Harold K. Gross award, which is granted annually by the...

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J. Bohorquez

Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (spring 2016). PhD, Department of History, European University Institute.

Research interests: History of Europe during early modern times, particularly the political economy of the Iberian Empires; global capital; merchant networks; slave traffic; Asian trade; and global cities.

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Amitava Chowdhury

Amitava Chowdhury

2013-2014 WIGH Fellow
Associate Professor of History, Queen's University, Canada

Amitava Chowdhury is an historian and historical archaeologist of agrarian labour regimes and colonial plantations in the British Caribbean and the Indian...

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Judith Froelich

Judith Froelich

Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellow (spring 2018)
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zurich
Research Interests: Japanese premodern and modern history; and transnational history.
Alexander Geelen

Alexander Geelen

Global Fellow, WIGH, Fall 2021
PhD Candidate in History, the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Alexander Geelen is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the...

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Ritesh Jaiswal

Ritesh Jaiswal

Graduate Research Fellow, Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Delhi
Research Interests: History of South and Southeast Asian Migration in Global Perspective, Labour history, Kangani and Maistry systems of Migration.
Jaewoong Jeon

Jaewoong Jeon

Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH
PhD, Department of History, University of Chicago
Jaewoong Jeon received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2021. His work focuses on the history of capitalism in Korea and Taiwan,... Read more about Jaewoong Jeon
Murari Jha

Murari Jha

Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations, Harvard University
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Languages, Ahmedabad University, India
Murari Jha is an economic and environmental historian of early modern India, and his broader research interests include the Mughal Empire, Ganga River Systems... Read more about Murari Jha
Ravinder Kauer

Ravinder Kaur

Visiting Scholar (Remote), 2020-2021
Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies; University of Copenhagen
Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She works across the disciplines of history, anthropology... Read more about Ravinder Kaur
Heeho Kim

Heeho Kim

WIGH Visiting Scholar, Fall 2013
Professor of Economic History, Kyungpook National University, Korea

Research Interests: Slavery (Nobi) and labor markets in Chosun Korea, the 17th-19th century; money and prices in Chosun...

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Florin-Stefan Morar

Florin-Stefan Morar

WIGH Graduate Research Fellow, 2014
PhD Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University

Research Interests: History of science and global history with a focus on the relations between East Asia, especially China and the West.