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Pallavi Das is a Delhi-based researcher with an M.Phil. and Ph.D from the Department of History, University of Delhi, India and a Master’s Degree from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She currently serves as the Editorial Assistant for Isis (HSS), one of the oldest and most prestigious English-language international journals in the history of science. Her research interests include the History of Medicine and Public Health; Environmental history; Modern South Asian history; Global history & Indian Ocean World Studies.

Pallavi has presented her research at various national and international conferences/seminars organised by some renowned universities including, the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Southampton, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Brighton, University of Durham, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Ashoka University and has also delivered an invited talk by the graduate research forum of South Asian Studies at National University of Singapore. She has also been part of various international workshops including, the medical history workshop ‘Medicalizing the Past: Colonial, Imperial and International Spaces’ organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and jointly funded by the European Research Council, Israel Science Foundation and the University of Haifa; a virtual interdisciplinary workshop on ‘How to write about non-humans’ organised by the British Association of South Asian Studies; the Delhi History Congress (2024), organised by the History Collective; the 2nd South Asia Global History Network Workshop organised by University of Delhi and the Cross-Border Mobility ECR Symposium jointly organised by DAAD India, Max Weber Forum of South Asian Studies & ICAS:MP. She has published research articles on both academic and non-academic platforms.

Pallavi was the recipient of the ISA Global Health Section Global South Travel Award 2023-24, supported by the ISA Global Health Section, the Brill Publishers, the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and Boston University’s Pardee Centre for the Study of Longer-Range Future. She has published research articles on both academic and non-academic platforms.

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Media Coverage

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Country Focus

Expertise by Geography

Africa, Asia, India, Middle East

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, Modern

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Environment, Local & Regional, Medicine, Science