Prof. Vandana Joshi

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow

Prof. Vandana Joshi Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow E-mail: vjoshi@svc.ac.in Room: 130.01.25

Research Statement

Professor Vandana Joshi teaches at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She completed her doctorate as a DAAD fellow from the Technical University Berlin. Her unpublished thesis won a Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History in 2002 and was published in 2003 by Palgrave as Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo 1933-45 .She has been a recipient of Charles Wallace India Trust Grant, Erasmus Mundus IMESS distinguished visiting fellowship, Max Plank Institute History (Goettingen) visiting fellowship and more recently Alexander von Humboldt senior research fellowship. She is the global editor of Cultural & Social History, the Journal of Social History Society, and serves on the advisory boards of Modern India in German Archives (MIDA) a long tern DFG project and Bloomsbury Cultural History Platform She is currently working on a book titled, Intimate Enemy: Criminalised Intimacies between German Women and Prisoners of War during WWII Germany. She is a regular contributor to the MIDA Archival Reflexicon, a bi-lingual open access digital platform which brings out research articles based on German (and European) archival sources on modern India. Her CV and selected publications are accessible at https://delhi-south.academia.edu/VandanaJoshi