Joya Chatterji

Joya Chatterji FBA is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.[1][2] She specialises in modern south Asian history and is the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies.[3]

Education

Chatterji has a degree in history from Lady Sri Ram College of the University of Delhi, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge.[1] Her doctoral thesis title was "Communal politics and the partition of Bengal, 1932-1947".[4]

Career

She taught at the London School of Economics from 2000 until taking up her post in Cambridge.[2] While there she worked with Claire Alexander and Annu Jalais on researching the experience of Bengali Muslim migrants, leading to their book The Bengal Diaspora. Rethinking Muslim Migration and the Bangla Stories project.[5]

Since 2007 she has been Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and was also for some time Director of the university's Centre of South Asian Studies.[1][6] Her research interests are listed as "Modern South Asian history; imperial and world history; partitions and borders; refugees, migration and diaspora; mobility and immobility; citizenship and minority formation in the late 20th century", and she has supervised some 25 doctoral theses in these areas. She teaches courses on South Asian and world history at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, her courses including "The History of the Indian subcontinent from the late eighteenth century to the present day" and "World History since 1914".[1]

Since 2009 she has been the editor of Modern Asian Studies and she is on the editorial boards of The Historical Journal, Journal of Contemporary History and Economic and Political Weekly.[2]

She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (2013) and of the Royal Historical Society (2017).[7][2]

Personal life

Chatterji was born and brought up in Delhi, India.[8] She has a son born in 1991 and brought him up as a single parent from 1997. In 2012 she was diagnosed with a "serious, incurable and disabling illness" but as of September 2018 the university web site reports that "Her brilliant team of doctors try to persuade her to ‘pace herself’. For the most part, she ignores their advice."[2]

Selected publications
  • Bengal divided. Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947, (1995, Cambridge UP: ISBN 9780521411288)
  • Published in Bengali as Bangla bhag holo (2004, Dhaka UP: ISBN 9789840502660)
  • The Spoils of Partition. Bengal and India 1947-1967 (2007, Cambridge UP: ISBN 9780521875363)
  • Published in Bengali as Deshbhager Arjon, Bangla o Bharat (2016, Dhaka: Moula Brothers)
  • Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (edited by Joya Chatterji and David Washbrook: 2013, Taylor and Francis: ISBN 9780415480109)
  • The Bengal Diaspora. Rethinking Muslim Migration (by Claire Alexander, Joya Chatterji and Annu Jalais: 2016, Routledge: ISBN 9780415530736)

References
  1. "Professor Joya Chatterji FBA". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  2. "Professor Joya Chatterji". Equality and Diversity. University of Cambridge: Faculty of History. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. "Modern Asian Studies". Cambridge UP. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. "Catalogue record for thesis". Copac. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  5. "Bangla Stories". LSE / Runnymede Trust. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  6. "Annual Report, 2014-2015" (PDF). Centre for South Asian Studies. Retrieved 10 September 2018. ... my first year as Director of the Centre...
  7. "Professor Joya Chatterji". British Academy. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  8. "Who we are: Dr Joya Chatterji". Bangla Stories. LSE / Runnymede Trust. Retrieved 10 September 2018.


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