Prabhu Mohapatra CV

PG – Delhi University – 1980

My academic career after PhD began with a Fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library(1989 – 1993) and was followed by Post Doctoral appointments at Yale University(1993 – 94), School of Oriental and African Studies, London,1994 and at the University of Amsterdam (1994-1997) .After returning to India I was Visiting Fellow at the V.V Giri National Labor Institute between 1998-2002 where I established the Integrated Labor History Research Programme and set up a fully digital and online Archive of Indian Labor, first of its kind in India. From 2002 February I was appointed as Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi. I have taught courses in Economic

History of Modern India, History of Labour and Labouring Poor and Working Classes, National Movement and Strategies of Imperial Control in the M.A ( Final ) Year and “Slaves Coolies and `free `labor : A History of Servitude” in the M.A ( previous) classes. I have also taught MPhil classes on Research Methods . I have supervised/and am currently supervising research of more than 20 MPhil and PhD students . I have had stints as Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale Superiore( Cachan) ( 2008)and Univers ity of Goettingen (2010-11) and held the L.M Singhvi Senior Fellowship at University of Cambridge ( 2006) and Fellowship at International Research Centre on Work and Lifecycle in Global History Perspective, Humboldt University( 2011). I have been involved in the establishment of the Association of Indian Labour Historians( AILH) and actively promoted international academic cooperation around issues of history of labor and Global History.

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