Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay gained her BA, MA and MPhil from Delhi University, India, before completing a PhD at SOAS University of London which investigated the role railways played in shaping colonial Indian society.

Aparajita taught at Salisbury University, Maryland, USA between 2014 and 2017, before teaching in the UK at SOAS, St Mary's University, and Goldsmiths. She arrived at the School of History at Kent in 2018.

Aparajita's areas of research include imperial history and the history of the British Empire, as well as the history of colonial South Asia, technology, the history of railways, and the history of social space.

Aparajita currently teaches on the history of empires and imperial Britain. 

Aparajita would be interested in supervising research projects in any of her areas of research (listed above).   

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transport History.