jehrlich@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 8359
Office
E21-2028
Consultation Hours
Tuesdays
10:00–11:00
Thursdays
17:00–18:00
Joshua EHRLICH
夜華
Education
- Ph.D., History, Harvard University (USA), 2018
- M.A., History, Harvard University (USA), 2013
- B.A. (Hons), History, University of Chicago (USA), 2009
Research Interests
- History of knowledge
- History of political thought
- History of corporations
- History of historiography
- 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)
- Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), 2020
- Associate Scholar, Harvard University (USA), 2019-
- Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau, 2022–2023
- 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
Books
- The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (in preparation)
Articles
- “New Lights on Raja Krishnachandra and Early Hindu-European Intellectual Exchange,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 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
- “The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform,” Public Domain Review (August 2016); republished by Paris Review Daily, Scroll.in, 3 Quarks Daily
- “William Robertson and Scientific Theism,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 3 (November 2013), pp. 519–542
Other
- Blog posts for Harvard South Asia Institute Blog
- Book reviews for Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Reviews in History, Sehepunkte
- Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), 2020
- Associate Scholar, Harvard University (USA), 2019-
- Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau, 2022–2023
- 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
Books
- The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (in preparation)
Articles
- “New Lights on Raja Krishnachandra and Early Hindu-European Intellectual Exchange,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (forthcoming)
- “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
- “The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform,” Public Domain Review (August 2016); republished by Paris Review Daily, Scroll.in, 3 Quarks Daily
- “William Robertson and Scientific Theism,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 3 (November 2013), pp. 519–542
Other
- Blog posts for Harvard South Asia Institute Blog
- Book reviews for Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Reviews in History, Sehepunkte