Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison M.A., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison B.A., Connecticut College
Shatrunjay Mall is a transnational historian of modern Asia, with specializations in Japanese and South Asian histories. His research explores inter-Asian intellectual, political, cultural and religious encounters across the twentieth century. He is particularly interested in how a broad range of Asian figures engaged conceptually with the category of “Asia” in response to Euro-American global hegemony.
Mall is currently working on his book manuscript titled Indian Anti-Colonialism and Japan’s Empire: Pan-Asianism in the Liberal Imperial Order, ca. 1900-1960. This research project draws on multi-language and multi-archival sources across four countries and has been supported by the Doris G. Quinn Foundation and the Japan Foundation.
At Trinity College, Mall’s courses covering pre-modern and modern Japanese and South Asian history invite students to expand their global and intercultural understanding, consider a variety of perspectives and the diversity of human experiences across time, and connect the past with its myriad influences on the present.
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East Asian histories and civilizations
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Japanese history
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Modern South Asian history
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Global history
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Transnational histories of Asia
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Intellectual and cultural history
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Histories of empire, colonialism, and anti-colonialism
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World War II in Asia
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Pan-Asianism and internationalisms
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Inter-Asian intellectual and political networks
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Histories of Japanese imperialism
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Anti-colonial movements in Asia
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Cold War
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Published Reviews:
Select Presentations:
- “Yasui Kaoru’s Antinuclear Pacifism: Imagining Afro-Asia During the Global Cold War,” paper presented at Reimagining Power: Postcolonial Discourses in Asia’s Atomic Age Workshop. Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, November 14, 2025.
- “Itinerant Intellectuals on a Global Stage: Gadadhar Singh and Okakura Tenshin’s Imaginings of Asia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (ca. 1900-1914),” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Columbus, March 13-16, 2025.
- “An Itinerant Intellectual on a Global Stage: Gadadhar Singh’s Imaginings of Japan and Asia,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 30-November 2, 2024.
- “Indian Anti-Colonialism and Japan’s Empire: Pan-Asianism in a Global Perspective,” (translated title), Rethinking Asianism Collaborative Project Second Research Meeting, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, August 3, 2024 (in Japanese, presented online).
- “Japan-India Encounters in the Nuclear Age: Pan-Asian Internationalism and the Global Cold War,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Asia, Yogyakarta, July 9-11, 2024.
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- Doris G. Quinn Fellowship, Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2025-2026.
- Research Fellowship, Japan Foundation, 2023-2024.
- East Asia Library Travel Grant, Stanford University, 2021-2022.
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2021.
- Toshiba International Foundation Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study, 2020.
- Nippon Foundation Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study, 2019-2020.
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