1. Dr Richard Eaton, Professor, University of Arizona, USA

Dr Richard Maxwell Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, where he has taught since 1972. His research interests focus on the social and cultural history of pre-modern India (1000-1800).  He has published monographs on the social roles of Sufis (Muslim mystics) in the Indian sultanate of Bijapur, the growth of Islam in Bengal, social history of the Deccan from 1300 to 1761, and the interplay between memory and art in the region. Some of his notable works include Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States and India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765, which explore the long-term interaction between the Persianate and Sanskritic worlds, between the Iranian Plateau and South Asia, and between Islam and Indian religious traditions. 

2. Dr Najaf Haider, Professor, CHS, JNU

Dr Najaf Haider is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University and obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in Mughal history. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna and the University of Bonn. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press. Dr Haider has published on the monetary economy, communication and conflict, secretarial classes, the history of Delhi, and the intellectual history of Islam. 

3. Dr Raziuddin Aquil, Professor, Dept of History, DU

Dr Raziuddin Aquil is Professor of History at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He holds a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of specialisation are Sufism in the Indian subcontinent, literary and historical traditions, and religion and political cultures. He has published extensively on Islamic religious movements, literary traditions, comparative historiography, and political culture in medieval and early modern India. Dr Aquil is on the editorial boards of the journals History and Sociology of South Asia and South Asia Research.

4. Dr Tanuja Kothiyal, Professor, Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi

Dr Tanuja Kothiyal is Professor of History at Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her area of research is the Thar desert and its networks of mobility and circulation from the seventeenth century onwards. She has worked extensively on the nature of human interactions and adaptation to arid geography and desert climate. Her current work is on vernacular texts and oral narrative traditions produced in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, through which she intends to provide a regional perspective on the Mughal Empire. She has also been researching boundary settlements in nineteenth-century Thar to understand the shifting nature of political formations in the Thar desert.

5. Dr Umesh Ashok Kadam, Professor, CHS, JNU

Dr Umesh Ashok Kadam is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has served as Member Secretary, Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi, and as a Member of many apex governing bodies. He specializes in the History of Deccan and Western India, History of the Marathas and European powers, Socio-economic and Cultural History of the Deccan, Trade and Commerce in the 17th and 18th century Konkan coast, Bhakti movement tenth to seventeenth century, Maritime History of India and Urbanization in the Medieval Maratha country. He has also served as a visiting faculty at various universities in the Netherlands, France, Portugal and the UK. 

6. Dr Abhimanyu Singh Arha, Associate Professor, CHS, JNU

Dr Abhimanyu Singh Arha is currently serving as Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and did his Masters and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dr Arha has taught at St. Stephen’s College, DU, MGS University, Bikaner and University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. His areas of interest are Medieval Indian History, Environmental/Ecological History, History of Rajasthan, Political Economy of Man-Animal Relationship in Early Modern Period, Business History, Comparative Literature, Critical Analysis of Oral Sources of History and vernacular literature, Travelogues, Travel writings and Ego-documents, History of Diplomacy among others.

7. Dr Pratyay Nath, Associate Professor, Ashoka University, Sonipat

Dr Pratyay Nath is Associate Professor of History at Ashoka University. He is a historian of early modern South Asia, with a focus on the Mughal Empire. His research lies at the crossroads of environmental history, military history, imperial history, and the history of kingship. He is the author of Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India (OUP, 2019) and the co-editor of The Early Modern in South Asia: Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History (CUP, 2022). He is one of the editors of The Medieval History Journal and of ইতিহাস প্রসঙ্গ (Itihash Proshongo), a history book series in Bangla for Ananda Publishers, Calcutta. 

8. Dr Meenakshi Khanna, Associate Professor, Indraprastha College for Women, DU

9. Dr Pankaj Jha, Associate Professor, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, DU

Dr Pankaj Jha teaches history at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. Dr Jha has been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas, USA and received his PhD from the University of Delhi. As a medievalist, his primary areas of interest are the languages and literary cultures of north India and their linkages with 'mainstream' history. Other areas of his interest include relations of servility in South Asia, medieval Sufi beliefs and practices, philosophies of history and Hindi cinema of the post-independence period. He also serves on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed international journal, Indian Economic and Social History Review.

10. Dr Mayank Kumar, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU

Dr. Mayank Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He has more than 28 years of teaching experience. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Arizona State University, USA and received his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Along with several articles published in reputed journals, Dr. Kumar has a monograph, Monsoon Ecologies: Irrigation, Agriculture and Settlement Patterns in Rajasthan during the Pre-Colonial Period, Manohar, New Delhi-2013 to his credit. He has also co-edited couple of volumes on History of Rajasthan. He was associated with Decision Centre for Desert City, Arizona State University to work on ‘Climate change and Water Issues’ through an inter-disciplinary approach. He was also a fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi to examine the issues associated with Social Stratification and the politics of natural Resources Management. He is visiting faculty at Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi University, Delhi and Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

11. Dr Tripti Deo, Associate Professor, Lakshmibai College, DU

Dr Tripti Deo is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi. She has done her MA (Medieval), MPhil and PhD at CHS, JNU. With 16+ years of teaching, she has taught a variety of courses which include the core history and skill-based papers. She has also developed online lectures on Medieval history for CEC and OSOU. Her primary research is on the Community history of the Charans of Rajasthan in the Medieval and Early Modern periods. In 2024, her work has been commended by the community itself as a pioneering work on their socio-cultural history. She has presented her work at various forums and published her work in prominent national and international journals.

12. Dr David Zou, Assistant Professor, Dept of History, DU

Dr David Zou is a historian of modern South Asia with a special interest in north-east India. He obtained his doctoral degree from Queen's University Belfast, where he was awarded the Academic Planning Grant. Presently, he teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi. His research interests include colonial history, gender history, ethno history, indigenous identities and historical geography. His forthcoming book Bible Belt in Babel: Print, Identity and Gender in colonial Mizoram is being published by Sage Publications.

13. Dr Ruchika Sharma, Assistant Professor, Mata Sundri College for Women, DU

Dr Ruchika Sharma teaches history at Mata Sundri College, University of Delhi. She was awarded the 'Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Book Writing Fellowship’ in 2019. Dr Sharma has published widely on themes of mixed-race domesticities, legal archives, nautch women, European travel literature, literary figures of sakhi/duti in the Riti poetry, and service culture.  An expert on the history of gender in medieval and early modern India, Dr Sharma is the author of a monograph titled Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal: Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire (Routledge, 2022).

14. Dr Kanika Singh, Director, Centre for Writing & Communication, Ashoka University 

Dr Kanika Singh is a historian with research interests in museums, heritage, public history and pedagogy. Her recent book is an edited volume titled Inclusive Pedagogies: Teaching & Learning Practices in Higher Education in India (Primus, 2024) and her forthcoming monograph is a study of Sikh museums in India (Cambridge University Press, 2025). She founded Delhi Heritage Walks in 2009, a group involved in leading heritage walks, designing walking trails, and training volunteers and professionals in the field of cultural heritage. At Ashoka University, she teaches courses on museums in South Asia, Delhi’s heritage, visual culture and research writing. 

15. Dr Yaaminey Mubayi, Independent Researcher 

Yaaminey Mubayi is a historian who has worked in the area of cultural heritage and community development over the past 20 years. She is a leading scholar and activist in eco-friendly and locally based conservational initiatives at major historical and heritage sites in India. Her work includes studies of craft, local histories, community memories, traditional knowledge and indigenous ecologies. She has published widely in these areas, and her latest book, Water and Historic Settlements: The Making of a Cultural Landscape, came out in 2022. Dr Mubayi is on the Expert Committee of the Government of Punjab for Development of Cultural Tourism, and is also a founder member of Satark Nagrik Sangathan, an organisation working on using the Right to Information (RTI) for community empowerment in New Delhi. 

16. Dr Prasun Chatterjee, Primus Books

17. Mr Rahul Kumar Sharma, Sage Publications

Mr Rahul Kumar Sharma (He/They) is Senior Managing Editor, Publishing Business, Sage India. He has 11 years of experience in journal publishing and contributed through different roles in editorial, peer review, marketing and overall journal management for societies and organization. He would be interacting with the audience on “Publication Journey of an Author” and related topics.

18. Dr Riya Gupta, Research Associate, INTACH Heritage Academy

Dr Riya Gupta is currently working as a Research Associate at the academic division of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), New Delhi. At INTACH, she heads the annual Research Programme and is also the Assistant Editor of INTACH Journal of Heritage Studies. She has a PhD from the Centre of Historical Studies, JNU, and is currently working on her monograph The Sky Poured Down Candy: Microhistorical Reflections on the Life and Times of a Petty Mughal Official, c. 1700–1730 to be published by Routledge.

19. Dr Amrita Chattopadhyay, Post-doctoral Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient- Berlin

Dr Amrita Chattopadhyay is currently a European Research Council-funded Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Timely Histories Project at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany. Her research is on Mughal Material Culture with a particular focus on object-production and practices in medieval and early modern India. She has been awarded her PhD degree from CHS, JNU in the year 2024. She has published in reputed books and journals including ‘Indo-Islamicate Perfumes in Early Modern India: Textualisation, Transmission and Assimilation’ in The Medieval History Journal, Vol.26 (2), 2023: 314-352 (Sage). For her postdoctoral research, she is focusing on the relationship between temporality and material practices in medieval and early modern India.