Shreya Khaund
Research
PhD project title:
Mapping Fossil Colonialism in Asia, c. 1810鈥�1914
I am a PhD researcher funded by the AHRC-Collaborative Doctoral Partnership at the 神马福利影片 and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London. My research explores the history of coal mining industries in the British empire, focusing on how fossil fuel resources were understood, extracted, and managed in the Northeast frontier regions of India and the uplands of Southeast Asia between 1810 and 1914.
By integrating environmental history and new imperial history approaches, I examine the social, ecological, and scientific dimensions of energy systems. My work draws on various scientific tools鈥攊ncluding maps, surveys, and visual materials鈥攖o investigate the multi-scalar developments of colonial mining industries and their lasting impacts.
Contact:
Supervisors: 神马福利影片: Dr Thomas Simpson and Dr James Poskett
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): Dr Sarah Evans and Dr Catherine Souch
Research Experiences
Research Assistant in History of Modern World, ETH Zurich. Project title:
Making Modern Citizens at the Margins: Physical Education and Training Programmes for Children in South Asia (c.1900-1965)
Master of Studies: Global and Imperial History. University of Oxford. Dissertation title -
The war fought outside the Bengal Delta: Role of Sylheti migrants in East London during the Bangladesh Liberation War (c. 1970)
Master of Arts: Women's Studies. TISS, Mumbai. Dissertation title -
Becoming a peer: An exploratory study on gender-conforming persons seeking to understand gender non-conformity
Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship Programme
Exploring gender and public spaces in Northeast India.Publications and Conferences
Peer-Reviewed Publication:
Khaund, Shreya. 鈥淏uilding Solidarity through Digital Activism in Assam.鈥� Zubaan (2020): 1-33. ()
Blog Publication:(The George Institute for Global Health, India 2019).
Conference:
Workshop on 鈥淭he Geological Turn in Asia: Empires, Geological Knowledge, and Geological Agencies" (4-5 September 2025, National University of Singapore) [upcoming]
Leviathan and after - a celebration of the history of science, its field and its future. UCL, Department of Science and Technology and the Science Museum, London. (May 2025). Presented paper titled 'False Trails: Subversive Tactics and Colonial Prospecting in Nineteenth Century Assam.'Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought: Political by Nature: Political Thought Through the Lens of the Anthropocene (2023) - Presented paper titled 鈥淢igrant Experiences in Climate Crisis: Assam in the Mid-Twentieth Century.鈥�