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{{Short description|Indian historian}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}

{{Infobox academic
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|1|25|df=y}}
| education = [[St. Anthony's College, Shillong]]
| occupation = Teacher, academic
| thesis_title = The interaction of print culture, identity and language in Northeast India
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486253
| thesis_year = 2008
| alma_mater = [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi]]<br />[[Queen's University Belfast]]<ref name=phd/>
| doctoral_advisor = [[M. Satish Kumar]] and [[David N. Livingstone]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| main_interests = [[modern history]], [[north-east India]], [[indigenous peoples]], book history
}}

'''David Vumlallian Zou''' (born 25 January 1977) is a historian of modern [[South Asia]] with special interest in [[north-east India]]. His research interests reflect an [[interdisciplinary]] orientation that includes colonial history, book history, [[gender history]], [[ethno-history]], [[indigenous peoples|indigenous]] identities and [[historical geography]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.in/index.php?id=270&fmember=2221&cid=437|title=Home - University of Delhi|website=www.du.ac.in|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/faculty/PDF/Dr_David_V_Zou.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928122330/http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/faculty/PDF/Dr_David_V_Zou.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 September 2011|date=28 September 2011|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>

==Education==
David V. Zou graduated in [[English literature]] (Major) from St. Anthony's College, [[Shillong]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anthonys.ac.in/|title=St. Anthony's College|website=Anthonys.ac.in|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref> under [[North Eastern Hill University]]. He completed his MA and M.Phil from the Centre for Historical Studies,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=SchoolOfSocialSciences |title=Archived copy |website=www.jnu.ac.in |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030210020244/http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=SchoolOfSocialSciences |archive-date=10 February 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi. He completed his M.Phil dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Majid H. Siddiqi.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

A fully funded PhD scholarship by the Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland) enabled him to pursue his PhD at [[Queen's University Belfast]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/|title=School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast|website=Qub.ac.uk|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808034649/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/|archive-date=8 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> where he worked under M. Satish Kumar <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/DrMSatishKumar/|title=School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast|website=Qub.ac.uk|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204043018/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/DrMSatishKumar/|archive-date=4 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[David N. Livingstone]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfessorDavidLivingstone/|title=School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast|website=Qub.ac.uk|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305041414/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfessorDavidLivingstone/|archive-date=5 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> on [[print culture]] and [[identity formation]] in colonial [[north-east India]].<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=Queen's University Belfast|title=The interaction of print culture, identity and language in Northeast India|first= Vumlallian David|last=Zou|date=2008|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486253|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.486253}}|website=Ethos.bl.uk}}</ref>

==Career and research==
Zou joined the faculty of History Department,{{when|date=November 2017}} Faculty of Social Sciences, [[University of Delhi]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache%3AavMTLvthROoJ%3Aweb1.du.ac.in%2Fdu%2Fminutes%2FEC-_V_%2520October%25206%2C%25202009.pdf+david+vumlallian+zou+%2B+delhi+University&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAmR3I_sNhnXw5YPyKH-2BHR4TG8B61gDVEDgX98Ut9GxhC20k9-DE4ECnBlgMvCQrtY5WJ319rQ6HKnLL-mx75HlEjtT4pFRxdJjCT7ROD_nWaOMWhC9fnmC7jXWPdwlJS4bV&sig=AHIEtbQT2Q0rmWeNlZITsZjeqzZASMlQow |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407154853/http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache%3AavMTLvthROoJ%3Aweb1.du.ac.in%2Fdu%2Fminutes%2FEC-_V_%2520October%25206%2C%25202009.pdf+david+vumlallian+zou+%2B+delhi+University&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAmR3I_sNhnXw5YPyKH-2BHR4TG8B61gDVEDgX98Ut9GxhC20k9-DE4ECnBlgMvCQrtY5WJ319rQ6HKnLL-mx75HlEjtT4pFRxdJjCT7ROD_nWaOMWhC9fnmC7jXWPdwlJS4bV&sig=AHIEtbQT2Q0rmWeNlZITsZjeqzZASMlQow |archive-date=7 April 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> where he teaches a paper on rise of capitalism and approaches to global history along with some aspects of labor history to postgraduate students. He is currently a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) since February 2010,.<ref>[http://inventory.du.ac.in/index.php?id=270&fmember=2221&cid=437] {{dead link|date=November 2017}}</ref> and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

Zou is currently{{when|date=November 2017}} completing a [[monograph]] titled, ''Print, Identity and [[Gender]] in colonial [[Mizoram]]'', to be published by [[Sage Publications]] as a part of SAGE Studies of India's North East.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

===Publications===
* Zou, David Vumlallian Zou (2018) "Embracing new gods: The process of religious change in northeast India" in Sajal Nag and Ishrat Alam (eds) ''Blending Nation And Region: Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha'', New Delhi: Primus Books, pp. 325–343 https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=blending+nation+and+region
* Zou, David Vumlallian (2018) "''Vai'' phobia to Raj nostalgia: ''Sahibs'', chiefs and commoners in colonial Lushai Hills" in Lipokmar Dzuvichu and Manjeet Baruah (eds.) ''Modern Practices in North East India'', Abingdon & New York: Routledge, pp. 119–143. https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Practices-North-East-India/dp/1138106917/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530013519&sr=1-1&keywords=modern+practices+in+north+east+india
*Zou, David Vumlallian (2016) "Peoples, Power, and Belief in North-east India", in Meena Radhakrishna (ed.) Citizens First: Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
*Zou, David Vumlallian (2016) "Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India"<ref name="Zou2016a">{{cite journal|last1=Zou|first1=David Vumlallian|title=Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India|journal=Studies in History|volume=32|issue=1|year=2016|pages=117–129|issn=0257-6430|doi=10.1177/0257643015616020|s2cid=156744406}}</ref>
*"Mapping a colonial Borderland: Objectifying the geo-body of India's Northeast" <ref name="ZouKumar2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zou|first1=David Vumlallian|last2=Kumar|first2=M. Satish|title=Mapping a Colonial Borderland: Objectifying the Geo-Body of India's Northeast|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|volume=70|issue=1|year=2011|pages=141–170|issn=0021-9118|doi=10.1017/S0021911810002986|s2cid=162598035}}</ref>
*Zou, David Vumlallian (2010) "A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle" (Special Article) ''[[Economic and Political Weekly]]'' (EPW), Vol. 45, No. 14, 3 April 2010, pp. 56 – 63.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://epw.in/epw/user/result.jsp |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006175903/http://epw.in/epw/user/result.jsp |archive-date=6 October 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*Zou, David Vumlallian (2009) "The Pasts of a Fringe Community: Ethno-history and Fluid Identity of Zou in Manipur" ''[[Indian Historical Review]]'', Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 209 – 235.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Pasts of a Fringe Community: Ethno-history and Fluid Identity of the Zou in Manipur|first=David Vumlallian|last=Zou|date=1 December 2009|journal=Indian Historical Review|volume=36|issue=2|pages=209–235|doi=10.1177/037698360903600202|s2cid=145785464}}</ref>
*Zou, David Vumlallian (2005) "Raiding the dreaded past: Representations of Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in Northeast India"<ref name="Zou2016b">{{cite journal|last1=Zou|first1=David Vumlallian|title=Raiding the dreaded past|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|volume=39|issue=1|year=2016|pages=75–105|issn=0069-9667|doi=10.1177/006996670503900103|s2cid=143561560}}</ref>
*Zou, David Vumlallian (2003) "Colonial Discourse and Evangelical Imagining" ''Religion and Society'', Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 57 – 93.

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[[Category:20th-century Indian historians]]
[[Category:Historians of Northeast India]]
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[[Category:Alumni of Queen's University Belfast]]
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[[Category:North-Eastern Hill University alumni]]
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