Rila Mukherjee

Rila Mukherjee is Professor in History, University of Hyderabad, India. Mukherjee has a PhD in Sciences Economiques ('Commerce et Marchands autour de Kasim- bazar, 1704-1750') from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Apart from French, her language skills are English, Bengali, Hindi, and limited Por- tuguese and Spanish. Her interests are in maritime and world history. She is the Chief Editor of the Brill journal Asian Review of World Histories. She was also most recent- ly Director, Institut de Chandernagor, India.

Mukherjee was Visiting Professor in Paris, Aix en Provence, Shanghai, Kolkata, San- tiniketan and Uppsala, and Visiting Scholar in Tokyo, Berlin, and Madrid. She is/has been a partner in the European Science Foundation project on Dynamic Cooperative Networks [DynCoopNet] (2007-2010; the ANR project L'Ocean Indien et la Mediter- ranee: Deux Mondes en Miroir (2009-13); the Arts and Humanities Research Coun- cil, UK partition project from 2009; and the Murdoch University project on History and Natural Hazards from 2016. She is project reviewer for the European Science Foundation, the Slovenian Research Agency and the Danish Humanities Research Council.

Her recent interests are in the history of water and world history, co-editing the issue «Approaching a History of Water: Tools and the Historian» in Water History, 7.2 (2015). Mukherjee has authored Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia (2006) and Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the Eighteenth Century (2006). She co-edited Locality, History Memory: The Making of the Citizen in Southasia (2009), Rethinking Connectivity: Region Place and Space in Asia (2015); Subversive Sovereigns Across the Seas: Indian Ocean Port-Cities from Early Historic Times to late Colonialism (2017) and Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean (2018). She has singly edited the following: Networks in the First Global Age 1400-1800 (2011), Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism (2011), Oceans Connect: Reflections on Water Worlds Across Time and Space (2013), Vanguards of Globalization: Port-Cities from the Classical to the Modern (2014), Be- yond National Frames: Southasian Pasts and the World (2015), and Living with Wa- ter: Peoples, Lives and Livelihoods in Asia and Beyond (2017).