Joy L. K. Pachuau is Associate Professor in History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her historical research focuses on European expansion in Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly the role of Portuguese missionaries. She also has major research interests in the socio-cultural history of northeast India, particularly the Mizo region. She obtained a DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and during 2011–13 worked collaboratively with Professor Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam) on a UGC Major Research Project, ‘Seeing the past through the visual; the creation of the photographic archive of the Mizos’ exploring, among other things, the social impact of the Mizo Peace Accord since 1986.
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