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.