List of Contributors

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Rahul K. Gairola PhD (University of Washington, USA) is The Krishna Somers Lecturer in English & Postcolonial Literature in the College of Arts, Business, Law, & Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging (London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016) and Co-Editor of Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, & Politics (Hyderabad, India: Orient Blackswan/ Lanham, USA: Lexington Books, 2016). He is the Co-Editor of the ‘South Asian Studies and Digital Humanities’ special issue of South Asian Review (Taylor & Francis), and an Article Editor for Postcolonial Text. He has held research grants/ fellowships at the University of Washington, Yale University, Cornell University, Leipzig University, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Cambridge. He is currently working on two book projects contracted with Taylor & Francis/ Routledge that critically map out migration, diaspora, and digital identities in contemporary India and its diasporas.

Nasir Uddin is currently serving as assistant professor of public administration at the University of Chittagong (CU) in Bangladesh. He has written about ten peer- reviewed publications, including a book and more than 20 newspaper articles. Before joining CU, he worked as a research associate at Human Development Research Centre for which he worked at Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Population Fund, Bangladesh.

Hasan Mahmud Faisal is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Jahangirnagar University (JU), Savar, Dhaka, in Bangladesh. He has written seven research articles in national and international journals. Before joining JU, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chittagong for more than three years.

Rubaiya Zannat is a lecturer in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department at the University of Dhaka. She has been teaching since 2012. Before joining the University of Dhaka, she worked at Jagannath University and two other private universities. She has also worked at the Daily Prothom-Alo, one of the lead- ing Bengali newspapers in Bangladesh. Rubaiya has published four research articles published in various journals.

Natalia Grincheva is a Research Fellow in the Research Unit of Public Cultures at the University of Melbourne. She holds several prestigious international academic awards from Fulbright (2007-2009), the Quebec Fund (2011-2013), Australian Endeavour (2012-2013) and a Soros research grant (2013-2014). She has travelled around the world to conduct research on digital diplomacy. Her work has appeared in many prominent international academic journals, including Journal of Creative Communications, Curator, Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Global Media and Communication Journal, and Museum and Society. Among her most influ- ential publications is an award-winning short-format book, Psychopower of Cultural Diplomacy in the Information Age, which received the 2013 Digital Humanities (DH) Research Award for ‘Best DH short publication’. Her most recent research-creation project, Creating a Dynamic Web Application Museum ‘Soft Power’ Map, has received multiple awards, including the 2018 Award of the International Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the 2017 Museum Computer Network Scholar Award.

Katja Müller is a social anthropologist with research interests in visual anthropology, mate- rial culture, museum anthropology, and digital anthropology, as well as envi- ronmental anthropology. She has been working at the Leipzig Ethnographic Museum on colonial photographs and objects form India, work that led to her doctoral thesis at LMU Munich in 2014. Since 2015 she has been a researcher and research coordinator at the Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies at Halle University. Her current research analyzes digitization processes in both Indian and German archives and museums. She also works on coal mining and renewable energy in Germany in collaboration with UTS Sydney.

Martin Roth is an assistant professor on ‘Japan in the Age of New & Digital Media’ at Leipzig University. He works on videogames and digital space. Roth leads the Japanese Videogames Research Initiative (http://home.uni-leipzig.de/jgames/en/) and

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