Joya Chatterji FBA is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
After holding a Fellowship at Trinity, and Wolfson College Cambridge, she taught at the London School of Economics from 2000 to 2007.
[2] In 2014 Chatterji was elected to a personal chair as Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Her research interests are listed as "Modern South Asian history; imperial and world history; partitions and borders; refugees, migration and diaspora; mobility and immobility; citizenship and minority formation in the late 20th century", and she has supervised some 30 doctoral theses in these and cognate areas.
She played a leading role in curating the Freedom and Fragmentation Exhibition, which displayed rare photographs and provided an intimate view of India's partition uprooted in the largest mass migration in human history.
These projects have had an impact upon school pupils, teachers, curators, archivists, photographers, and the public in the UK and India, encouraging them to reflect upon the history of migration and how it has shaped society today.