Prof. Ruma Chopra

Prof. Ruma Chopra

Ruma Chopra is professor of history at the San Jose State University, Califronia. She grew up in India and attended high school in the U.S. After giving up on a degree in Chemical Engineering, she studied English, Linguistics, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies before she...
Prof. Xin Fan

Prof. Xin Fan

Xin Fan is a historian of modern China with a strong interest in world history. In his work, he is fascinated by three general issues in historiography and intellectual history in a world-historical context: What is the relationship between past and present in a...
Dr. David Mayer

Dr. David Mayer

Dr. David Mayer is a historian specialized in transnational social history. From 2014 to 2016 he has acted as executive editor of International Review of Social History, published by the IISH in Amsterdam. In 2011 he completed his PhD-research on the history of...
Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal (PhD candidate)

Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal (PhD candidate)

Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal’s area of research interest includes non-indentured Indian migration, global migration systems, labour history and the Indian ocean rim. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D from the University of Delhi on the Aspects of Indian Labour Migration to...
Dr. Enrique Martino

Dr. Enrique Martino

Dr. Enrique Martino obtained a doctorate from the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. His dissertation, titled, “Touts and Despots: Recruiting Assemblages of Contract Labour in Fernando Pó and the Gulf of Guinea, 1858-1979” was...