David Vumlallian Zou is an historian of modern South Asia with special interest in north-east India.
Education
David V Zou graduated in English literature (Major) from Saint Anthony"s College, Shillong, under North Eastern Hill University. He completed his Master of Arts and The Master of Philosophy from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his The Master of Philosophy dissertation under the supervision of Professor
Majid H. Siddiqi.
A fully funded Doctor of Philosophy scholarship by the Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland) enabled him to pursue his Doctor of Philosophy at Queen"s University Belfast where he worked under M. Satish Kumar and David North. Livingstone on print culture and identity formation in colonial north-east India.
(Abstract of the Doctor of Philosophy thesis is available at British Library Beta EThOS).
Career
His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes colonial history, book history, gender history, ethno-history, indigenous identities and historical geography. and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011. Doctor Zou is currently completing a monograph titled, Print, Identity and Gender in colonial Mizoram, to be published by Sage Publications as a part of SAGE Studies of India"s North East.
Views
Doctor David V Zou has joined the faculty of History Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, where he teaches a paper on rise of capitalism and approaches to global history along with some aspects of labor history to postgraduate students.
Membership
He is currently a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) since February 2010.