Dr. Joy LK Pachuau is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has a doctorate in history from the same University, as well as a doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK. At JNU she teaches courses related to the history of Christianity in Asia in the 16th-17th centuries and gender and society in medieval India. Her research interest thus includes the history of Portuguese expansion in Asia especially in relation to religion but also other socio-cultural aspects. More recently she has been working on the history of Northeast India with a focus in the history of identity formations. She is also interested in the visual history of the region.

Dr. Pachuau’s recent publications include Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India, (OUP, 2014), The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India (with Willem van Schendel, CUP, 2015) and Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge (eds with P. Malekandathil and Tanika Sarkar, Primus 2016) and Landscape, Culture and Belonging: Writing the History of Northeast India, New Delhi (edited with Neeladri Bhattacharya: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Entangled Lives: Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalyan Triangle, co-written with Willem van Schendel was published in 2022 from Cambridge Unviersity Press.