David Vumlallian Zou
{{Short description|Indian historian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox academic
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|1|25|df=y}}
| education = St. Anthony's College, Shillong
| occupation = Teacher, academic
| thesis_title = The interaction of print culture, identity and language in Northeast India
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486253
| thesis_year = 2008
| alma_mater = Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Queen's University Belfast
| doctoral_advisor = M. Satish Kumar and David N. Livingstone
| nationality = Indian
| main_interests = modern history, north-east India, indigenous peoples, book history
}}
David Vumlallian Zou (born 25 January 1977) is a historian of modern South Asia with special interest in north-east India. His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes colonial history, book history, gender history, ethno-history, indigenous identities and historical geography.{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.in/index.php?id=270&fmember=2221&cid=437|title=Home - University of Delhi|website=www.du.ac.in|accessdate=29 November 2017}}{{cite web|title=Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site|url=http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/faculty/PDF/Dr_David_V_Zou.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928122330/http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/faculty/PDF/Dr_David_V_Zou.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 September 2011|date=28 September 2011|accessdate=29 November 2017}}
Education
David V. Zou graduated in English literature (Major) from St. Anthony's College, Shillong,{{cite web|url=http://www.anthonys.ac.in/|title=St. Anthony's College|website=Anthonys.ac.in|accessdate=29 November 2017}} under North Eastern Hill University. He completed his MA and MPhil from the Centre for Historical Studies,{{cite web |url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=SchoolOfSocialSciences |title=Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University |website=www.jnu.ac.in |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030210020244/http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=SchoolOfSocialSciences |archive-date=10 February 2003 |url-status=dead}} Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his MPhil dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Majid H. Siddiqi.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
A fully funded PhD scholarship by the Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland) enabled him to pursue his PhD at Queen's University Belfast{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/|title=School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast|website=Qub.ac.uk|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808034649/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/|archive-date=8 August 2011|url-status=dead}} where he worked under M. Satish Kumar {{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/DrMSatishKumar/|title=School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast|website=Qub.ac.uk|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204043018/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/DrMSatishKumar/|archive-date=4 December 2010|url-status=dead}} and David N. Livingstone{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfessorDavidLivingstone/|title=School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast|website=Qub.ac.uk|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305041414/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfessorDavidLivingstone/|archive-date=5 March 2011|url-status=dead}} on print culture and identity formation in colonial north-east India.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=Queen's University Belfast|title=The interaction of print culture, identity and language in Northeast India|first= Vumlallian David|last=Zou|date=2008|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486253|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.486253}}|website=Ethos.bl.uk}}
Career and research
Zou joined the faculty of History Department in 2009, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi,{{Cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache%3AavMTLvthROoJ%3Aweb1.du.ac.in%2Fdu%2Fminutes%2FEC-_V_%2520October%25206%2C%25202009.pdf+david+vumlallian+zou+%2B+delhi+University&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAmR3I_sNhnXw5YPyKH-2BHR4TG8B61gDVEDgX98Ut9GxhC20k9-DE4ECnBlgMvCQrtY5WJ319rQ6HKnLL-mx75HlEjtT4pFRxdJjCT7ROD_nWaOMWhC9fnmC7jXWPdwlJS4bV&sig=AHIEtbQT2Q0rmWeNlZITsZjeqzZASMlQow |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407154853/http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache%3AavMTLvthROoJ%3Aweb1.du.ac.in%2Fdu%2Fminutes%2FEC-_V_%2520October%25206%2C%25202009.pdf+david+vumlallian+zou+%2B+delhi+University&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAmR3I_sNhnXw5YPyKH-2BHR4TG8B61gDVEDgX98Ut9GxhC20k9-DE4ECnBlgMvCQrtY5WJ319rQ6HKnLL-mx75HlEjtT4pFRxdJjCT7ROD_nWaOMWhC9fnmC7jXWPdwlJS4bV&sig=AHIEtbQT2Q0rmWeNlZITsZjeqzZASMlQow |archive-date=7 April 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} where he teaches a paper on rise of capitalism and approaches to global history along with some aspects of labor history to postgraduate students. He is currently a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) since February 2010,.[http://inventory.du.ac.in/index.php?id=270&fmember=2221&cid=437] {{dead link|date=November 2017}} and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
Zou is currently{{when|date=November 2017}} 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.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
=Publications=
- {{Cite book |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |url=https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=blending+nation+and+region |title=Blending Nation And Region: Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha |publisher=Primus Books |year=2018a |editor-last=Nag |editor-first=Sajal |location=New Delhi |pages=325–343 |chapter=Embracing new gods: The process of religious change in northeast India |ref=none |editor-last2=Alam |editor-first2=Ishrat}}
- {{Cite book |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |url=https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Practices-North-East-India/dp/1138106917/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530013519&sr=1-1&keywords=modern+practices+in+north+east+india |title=Modern Practices in North East India |publisher=Routledge |year=2018b |editor-last=Dzuvichu |editor-first=Lipokmar |pages=119–143 |ref=none |editor-last2=Baruah |editor-first2=Manjeet}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |year=2016a |title=Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India |journal=Studies in History |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=117–129 |doi=10.1177/0257643015616020 |issn=0257-6430 |s2cid=156744406 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |year=2016b |title=Raiding the dreaded past |journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=75–105 |doi=10.1177/006996670503900103 |issn=0069-9667 |s2cid=143561560 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |title=Citizens First: Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016c |editor-last=Radhakrishna |editor-first=Meena |location=Oxford |chapter=Peoples, Power, and Belief in North-east India |ref=none}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |last2=Kumar |first2=M. Satish |year=2011 |title=Mapping a Colonial Borderland: Objectifying the Geo-Body of India's Northeast |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=141–170 |doi=10.1017/S0021911810002986 |issn=0021-9118 |s2cid=162598035 |ref=none |doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |date=3 April 2010 |title=A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=45 |issue=14 |pages=56–63 |ref=none}}{{Cite web |title=EPW |url=http://epw.in/epw/user/result.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006175903/http://epw.in/epw/user/result.jsp |archive-date=6 October 2011 |access-date=29 June 2011}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |date=1 December 2009 |title=The Pasts of a Fringe Community: Ethno-history and Fluid Identity of the Zou in Manipur |journal=Indian Historical Review |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=209–235 |doi=10.1177/037698360903600202 |s2cid=145785464 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zou |first=David Vumlallian |year=2003 |title=Colonial Discourse and Evangelical Imagining |journal=Religion and Society |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=57–93 |ref=none}}
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Category:Historians of South Asia
Category:20th-century Indian historians
Category:Historians of Northeast India
Category:Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Category:Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni
Category:North-Eastern Hill University alumni
Category:Academic staff of Delhi University