Participant Info
- First Name
- Divya
- Last Name
- Kannan
- Country
- India
- State
- divya.kannan@snu.edu.in
- Affiliation
- Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
- Website URL
- https://snu.edu.in/faculty/divya-kannan/
- Keywords
- Modern History, South Asia, Colonialism, Education, Childhoods, Gender, Labour, Mobility, Contemporary History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am currently Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR, India. Since April 2020, I am also the co-founder and co-convenor of the online Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC).
- Recent Publications
- Contested Childhoods : Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala ( Cambridge University Press, 2024)
- ‘History of Childhoods in South Asia’. Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. doi:10.1093/obo/9780199791231-0284 (2023)
- Recasting Poor Children: Basel Mission Boarding Schools in Colonial Malabar.” In Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ed. Daniel Gerster and Felicity Jensz, 145–165. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- ’Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth-century South India’ in Special Issue: Modernity, schooling, and childhood in India: trajectories of Exclusion, Children’s Geographies co-edited R.Maithreyi and Divya Kannan, Vol. 20 Issue 3, (2022), p.845- 860.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- India
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, India, South Asia, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Literary History, Material Culture, Migration & Immigration, Pedagogy, Public History, Race, Sexuality, Urban History, Women
