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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF CONSULTING EDITOR HARISH C. MEHTA GURJIT SINGH PhD, McMaster University, Former Ambassador of India Former Lecturer at McMaster, to Germany, Indonesia, ASEAN, University of Toronto and Ethiopia, and the African Union; Trent University; and former currently honorary professor of Indochina Correspondent, humanities, The Business Times Indian Institute of Technology, of Singapore. Indore. [email protected] [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
ANG CHENG GUAN JANGKHONGAM DOUNGEL Professor, Professor, Department of S. Rajaratnam School of Political Science, International Studies, Mizoram University, Aizawl. Singapore. (Local/Regional Politics & Socio- (International History and Politics Economic Development of Mizoram, of Southeast Asia), and Autonomy Movements in the [email protected] North East), [email protected]
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ASSISTANT EDITORS BOOKS RESEARCH Mohini Maureen Pradhan Hemalatha Sridhar [email protected] [email protected]
FILM STUDIES Raka Mukherjee Hussena Calcuttawala [email protected] [email protected]
COLUMNS PUBLISHING EXECUTIVE Valentina Notts Roshni Subramani [email protected] [email protected]
EDITORIAL BOARD
Julie Banerjee Mehta Former Lecturer, University of Toronto and York University, currently Professor, Loreto College, Calcutta (Postcolonial and Gender Theory, World Literatures, Diaspora Studies and Southeast Asian Culture), [email protected]
Suchorita Chattopadhyay Professor, Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University (Comparative Literature, Japan, and Asian Diasporas), [email protected]
Ajay Dandekar Professor, Director Humanities & Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University (International Relations, China, Geostrategy), [email protected]
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Craig Etcheson PhD (International Relations), University of Southern California; currently Visiting Scientist at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Transitional Justice, Genocide Studies, and Cambodia), [email protected]
Tuan Hoang Associate Professor of Great Books, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (Modern Vietnamese Intellectual and Religious History, Vietnamese American History, and Vietnamese Catholicism), [email protected]
Sanjay Kathuria PhD (Economics), University of Oxford, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University and Ashoka University; Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research; Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies; and former Lead Economist, World Bank (South Asian Trade and Investment, India's North East, Global Economy, Economic Growth, and Competitiveness), [email protected]
Veronica Khangchian Assistant Professor, Department of Conflict Management & Peace Initiatives, Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong; and Assistant Professor (Sociology), University of Delhi (Ethnicity & Conflict, Migration, and Peace Processes in Northeast India), [email protected]
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Vimal Khawas Associate Professor & Head of Department of Peace & Conflict Studies and Management, Sikkim University, Gangtok (the Himalayan region, Sikkim, Nepal, Environmental Studies/Security, Development Studies, Urban and Regional Planning), [email protected]
Shubhrajeet Konwer Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University (India's North East, Foreign Policy, Security, and Border Studies), [email protected]
Siddharth Mallavarapu Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University (Disciplinary histories of International Relations, Theories of IR in the Global South, Asia in World Affairs, Comparative Political Thought, and Critical Security Studies), [email protected]
Medha Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University (South Asian Historical International Relations, Postcolonial and Decolonial approaches, Identities, Ideologies and Religion, and Discourse
Theory), [email protected]
Md Mizanur Rahman PhD Fellow, School of Cultural and Critical Studies, Bowling Green State University, Ohio (American Studies, Environmental Humanities, Cultural and Critical Theory), [email protected]
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Biswajit Mohapatra Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong (Politics, International Relations and Foreign Policy; and India's North East), [email protected]
Vu Duong Luan Research Fellow, Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (History of Vietnam, Early Modern East Asia, China-Southeast Asia Interactions, and Asian Borderland Studies), [email protected]
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