
jehrlich@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8359
Office
E21-2025
Consultation Hours
Mondays and Thursdays
13:00 – 14:00
Joshua EHRLICH
夜華
Biography
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Education
- Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2018
- M.A., History, Harvard University, 2013
- B.A. (Hons), History, University of Chicago, 2009
Employment
- Associate Professor, Department of History, UM, 2024–
- Assistant Professor, Department of History, UM, 2018–2024
Honorary and Visiting Appointments
- Associate Scholar, Harvard University, 2019–
- Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, 2024
- Junior Research Fellow, UM Institute of Advanced Studies, 2023–2024
- Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2020
Selected Publications
Book
- The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Other editions: South Asia edition; paperback; Chinese translation (under contract)
- Reviews: American Historical Review, Asian Review of Books, Choice, The English Historical Review, Global Intellectual History, H-Soz-Kult, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Times Literary Supplement
Edited Volume
Articles
- “William Jones and the Politics of Knowledge,” in New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones, special issue, Global Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 2 (February 2025), pp. 118–122
- (With Ian Stewart,) Introduction, New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones, special issue, Global Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 2 (February 2025), pp. 95–101
- “Subscription Publishing and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Indian Print Culture,” Book History, vol. 27, no. 1 (June 2024), pp. 32–50
- “Straddling the Imperial Meridian: Warren Hastings as an Observer of Change in British India,” History of European Ideas, vol. 49, no. 6 (August 2023), 995–1013
- “The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c. 1700–1950,” Past & Present, vol. 257, no. 1 (November 2022), pp. 168–208
- Arnold Hirsch Award, Urban History Association, 2023
- “A Decade of Controversy: Sources on the Demarcation of Calcutta, 1784-94,” Historical Research, vol. 95, no. 269 (August 2022), pp. 471–480
- “New Lights on Raja Krishnachandra and Early Hindu-European Intellectual Exchange,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd ser., vol. 31, no. 1 (January 2021), pp. 159–171
- “Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India,” in Unpacking the Library, special section, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3 (June 2020), pp. 478–492
- Library History Essay Award, Library and Information History Group, 2021
- “Empire and Enlightenment in Three Letters from Sir William Jones to Governor-General John Macpherson,” The Historical Journal, vol. 62, no. 2 (June 2019), pp. 541–551
- “The Crisis of Liberal Reform in India: Public Opinion, Pyrotechnics, and the Charter Act of 1833,” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 52, no. 6 (November 2018), pp. 2013–2055
- “The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform,” Public Domain Review (August 2016)
- Featured by The Paris Review, Scroll.in
- “William Robertson and Scientific Theism,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 3 (November 2013), pp. 519–542
Other
Book reviews for Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Reviews in History, Sehepunkte
Selected Honors and Awards
- Excellence in Research Award, UM Faculty of Arts and Humanities, 2024
- Arnold Hirsch Award, Urban History Association, 2023
- Election as Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 2023
- Library History Essay Award, Library and Information History Group, 2021
- Election as Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2020
Selected Grants
- Multi-Year Research Grants, University of Macau, 2022–
- Startup Research Grant, University of Macau, 2018–2021
- Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2018
- Jeffrey Cheah Travel Grant for Southeast Asia, Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, 2017
- Krupp Foundation Research Fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 2015–2016
- Mughal Persian Language Scholarship, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2015
- Dissertation Travel Grant, North American Conference on British Studies, 2014–2015
Research Interests
- Global History
- British Empire
- Indian Ocean World
- South and Southeast Asia
- East India Companies
- Intellectual History
- History of Political Thought
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- History of Knowledge
- Book History
Courses Regularly Taught
- GELH 1008: Trade, Empire, and Globalization (GE)
- Hist 1004: Historical Theory and Practice
- Hist 2001: Western Civilizations I
- Hist 2017: The British Empire and the World
- Hist 7000: Approaches to Global History (MPhil)
- Hist 7773: Studies in Imperialism (MPhil)
- Hist 8803: Academic Writing in History (PhD)