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Joya Chatterji
Joya Chatterji FBA is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in modern South Asian history and was the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies for ten years.
Chatterji gained a First Class Honours Degree in History from Lady Sri Ram College of the University of Delhi where she won the prize for Best Student of History, before completing a PhD in History at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1991. Her doctoral thesis was in "Communal politics and the partition of Bengal, 1932-1947".
After the publication of her first book in 1995, Bengal Divided, Chatterji won a 'prize' Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College. After holding a Fellowship at Trinity, and Wolfson College Cambridge, she taught at the London School of Economics from 2000 to 2007. She then took up her post at the Faculty of History in Cambridge in 2007 and as Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
In 2014, Chatterji was elected to a personal chair as Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. 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 30 doctoral theses in these and cognate areas. She taught 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". From 2014 to her retirement in 2019, she was Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge.
From 2009-2021 she was first Editor then Editor-in-chief of Modern Asian Studies, a leading journal in the field. She also has served on the editorial boards of The Historical Journal, Journal of Contemporary History and Economic and Political Weekly.
Chatterji played a prominent role in promoting the study of South Asia as Cambridge as Director of the University's Centre of South Asian Studies, as well as playing a significant part in the promotion of public history. A key focus has been to promote the teaching of migration to Britain to school children across the UK.
Chatterji worked with Dr Claire Alexander and Dr Annu Jalais on the Bangla Stories project, playing a leading role in curating the Freedom and Fragmentation Exhibition, which displayed rare photographs and provided an intimate view of India's partition uprooted in the largest mass migration in human history. These projects have had an impact upon school pupils, teachers, curators, archivists, photographers, and the public in the UK and India, encouraging them to reflect upon the history of migration and how it has shaped society today. She and Claire Alexander then led, along with the Runnymede Trust, the award-winning Our Migration Story website, which enabled teaching across the curriculum of migration to Britain since the dawn of the millennium.
Chatterji 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).
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Joya Chatterji
Joya Chatterji FBA is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She specialises in modern South Asian history and was the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies for ten years.
Chatterji gained a First Class Honours Degree in History from Lady Sri Ram College of the University of Delhi where she won the prize for Best Student of History, before completing a PhD in History at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1991. Her doctoral thesis was in "Communal politics and the partition of Bengal, 1932-1947".
After the publication of her first book in 1995, Bengal Divided, Chatterji won a 'prize' Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College. After holding a Fellowship at Trinity, and Wolfson College Cambridge, she taught at the London School of Economics from 2000 to 2007. She then took up her post at the Faculty of History in Cambridge in 2007 and as Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
In 2014, Chatterji was elected to a personal chair as Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. 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 30 doctoral theses in these and cognate areas. She taught 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". From 2014 to her retirement in 2019, she was Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge.
From 2009-2021 she was first Editor then Editor-in-chief of Modern Asian Studies, a leading journal in the field. She also has served on the editorial boards of The Historical Journal, Journal of Contemporary History and Economic and Political Weekly.
Chatterji played a prominent role in promoting the study of South Asia as Cambridge as Director of the University's Centre of South Asian Studies, as well as playing a significant part in the promotion of public history. A key focus has been to promote the teaching of migration to Britain to school children across the UK.
Chatterji worked with Dr Claire Alexander and Dr Annu Jalais on the Bangla Stories project, playing a leading role in curating the Freedom and Fragmentation Exhibition, which displayed rare photographs and provided an intimate view of India's partition uprooted in the largest mass migration in human history. These projects have had an impact upon school pupils, teachers, curators, archivists, photographers, and the public in the UK and India, encouraging them to reflect upon the history of migration and how it has shaped society today. She and Claire Alexander then led, along with the Runnymede Trust, the award-winning Our Migration Story website, which enabled teaching across the curriculum of migration to Britain since the dawn of the millennium.
Chatterji 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).