Prabhu Mohapatra, Vice President
Associate Professor, Department of History Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi
Prabhu Mohapatra is currently the Professor at the University of Delhi. His areas of interest and specialisation include the History of Labor and Working Classes, Transnational Labor History and Long-distance Labor Migration, History of Indian Diaspora, Economic History of Modern India, Environmental History and Identity Formation.
He has been a fellow and Visiting Professor at leading institutions in India and abroad such as Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, V.V Giri National Labor Institute, Ecole Normale Superiore (Cachan), University of Goettingen, International Research Centre on Work and Lifecycle in Global History Perspective, Humboldt University, University of Cambridge, Yale University, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands and School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
He has helped organise and set up Archives of Indian Labour, a website dedicated to preserving and making accessible fast depleting documents on the working class. His PHD thesis from Jawaharlal Nehru University focussed on the Economic History of Modern India. He is a renowned published author, editor of books, papers and, has actively promoted international academic cooperation around issues of history of labor and Global History.
