
jehrlich@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8359
Office
E21-2028
Consultation Hours
Tuesdays and Fridays
14:30-15:30
Joshua EHRLICH
夜華
Education
- Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2018
- M.A., History, Harvard University, 2013
- B.A. (Hons), History, University of Chicago, 2009
Honorary and Visiting Appointments
- Associate Scholar, Harvard University, 2019–
- Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), 2020
Selected Publications
Books
- The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
Articles
- “The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c. 1700–1950,” Past & Present (January 2022)
- “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
- “Anxiety, Chaos, and the Raj,” The Historical Journal, vol. 63, no. 2 (June 2020), pp. 777–787
- “Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3 (June 2020), pp. 478–492
- “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
- “William Robertson and Scientific Theism,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 3 (November 2013), pp. 519–542
Essays
Other
- Book reviews for Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Reviews in History, Sehepunkte
Professional Associations
- Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Early Career Member, Royal Historical Society
- Board Member, East Asian Intellectual History Network
Selected Grants and Awards
- Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau, 2023–2024
- Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau, 2022–2023
- Library History Essay Award, Library and Information History Group, 2021
- Startup Research Grant, University of Macau, 2018–2021
- Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute, 2018–2019 (declined)
- Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2018
- Jeffrey Cheah Travel Grant, 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
- History of knowledge
- History of political thought
- British East India Company
- Global and transregional history
- East-West interactions
- Modern and early modern South and Southeast Asia
- Modern and early modern Britain and British Empire
Courses Regularly Taught
- Historical Theory and Practice
- Studies in Imperialism (MA)
- The British Empire and the World
- Trade, Empire, and Globalization (GE)