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Prof(Dr.) Vandana Joshi

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Professor Department of History vjoshi@svc.ac.in

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Educational Qualifications

  • Dr. Phil: (2001), Modern German History/Gender Studies, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (ZIFG), Technical University Berlin.
  • M.Phil.University of Delhi
  • MA Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Areas of Specialization

  • Modern German History, Global history, Nazi Germany, WWII, Gender, Sexuality and Fraternisation.

Administrative roles/ responsibilities

Convener, International/ National Conferences

24-25 March 2022 International Conference: Perspectives on WWII, History Department Festival Legacy


27 January 2022 International online symposium: MIDA (Modern Indian in German Archives): Digital Archiving and New Directions in Research, History Department Fest Legacy


8-9 March 2019 National Conference at Sri Venkateswara College, History Department Fest: Legacy


Coordinator, MGNCRE, Beat Covid Campaign 2021


Teacher-in- charge department of History - 2018-2019, 2021-22, 2023-24


Member of various committees- Library Committee 2019-2021, Attendance Committee 2019-2021, Internal Complaints Committee 2021-2023, Equal Opportunity Cell 2021-23, Coordinator, NAAC, Department of History 2016 and 2022, Coordinator, IQAC, 2018


Courses Taught

  • Modern European History, Cultural Transformation in Early Modern Europe
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Journal Articles

Joshi, Vandana. 2022. Criminalized Intimacies between POWs and ‘Unworthy War Wives’ and Their Soldier-Husbands’ Responses to Racial, Sexual Wartime Justice in Nazi Germany, Genealogy 6, no. 4:86, pp. 1-21. EISSN 2313-5778, MDPI, Basel: Switzerland. https:doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6040086 at https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/4/86


Joshi, Vandana. 2022. War of Words and Nerves: Diplomatic Maneuvers. Psychological Operations and Welfare Projections of British and German Empires during 1941-43, pp. 1-20 ISSN: 2628 5029 DOI 10.25360/01–2022-00022 ZMO Berlin at https://www.projekt-mida.de/reflexicon/war-of-words-and-nerves-diplomatic-maneuvers-psychological-operations-and-welfare-projections-of-british-and-german-empires-during-1941-43,. Winner of the Best Research Paper Award of Sri Venkateswara Best paper Compition 2021-22.


Joshi, Vandana. 2020.The Making of a Cosmopolitan Jangi Qaidi: A Leaf from Sohan Singh’s Prison Notebook written in Annaburger Stammlager D/Z in German captivity during the Second World War (1942- 45),pp. 1-11 , ISSN: 2628 5029 , Berlin.URL https://www.projekt-mida.de/reflexicon/the-making-of-a-cosmopolitan-jangi-qaidi/


Joshi Vandana. 2019. Memory and Memorialisation, Interment and Exhumation, Propaganda and Politics during WWII through the lens of International Tracing Service (ITS) Collections.pp. 1-12, ISSN: 2628 5029, URL https://www.projekt-mida.de/reflexicon/memory-and-memorialisation-interment-and-exhumation-propaganda-and-politics-during-wwii-through-the-lens-of-international-tracing-service-its-collections/


Joshi, Vandana. 2015. Soldier’s Morale and War Wife’s Morality: Gendered Images of Righteousness and Citizenship in Nazi Germany, Feministische Studien, 33 no.2, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 229-245, ISSN 07235186.


Joshi, Vandana. 2015. “Between Erasure and Remembrance: Shreds from the Lives of South Asian Prisoners of War in Stammlagers, Arbeitskommandos, Lazaretts and Graves During World War II (1941-45)”, Südasien-Chronik 2015(5), pp. 144-168. URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/9148.


Joshi, Vandana , 2015. South Asia and the World Wars in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction, Südasien-Chronik (5), pp. 1-9, https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/9142


Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books

Joshi, Vandana. 2017. The Apogee of Racism: Nazi Germany 1933-45, in Joshi, Vandana (ed.), Revisiting Modern European History: Gender, Race, Class and Nation, pp.133-188. Pearson India, ISBN 9789332541108.


Joshi, Vandana. 2017..The Nationalization of Female Citizenry: Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in Joshi, Vandana (ed.), Revisiting Modern European History: Gender, Race, Class and Nation, pp. 49-87. Pearson India, ISBN 9789332541108.


Joshi, Vandana. 2017. Introduction in Joshi, Vandana (ed.),Revisiting Modern European History: Gender, Race, Class and Nation. Pearson India, pp. vii-xxi, ISBN 9789332541108.


Joshi, Vandana. 2015. The Holy Ghost, the Sleeping Beauty and the Prince Charming:Narratives of Sexual Discontent in WWII Germany, in Nancy Ruprecht and Wendy Koenig (eds.) Global Perspectives on the Holocaust: History, Identity and Legacy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), pp.272-293.ISBN-10:1443876062.


Edited Books

Joshi, Vandana (ed.) 2017. Revisiting Modern European History: Gender, Race, Class and Nation, Pearson India. ISBN 9789332541108 (my contribution 47,000 words).


Book Review and Review Articles

Joshi, Vandana, 2023: Love Between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II by Raffael Scheck, Cultural and Social History, DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2210874 


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Prize

·	Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History,Wiener Library, London.

International Research Fellowships

·	Alexander von Humboldt Revisit Fellowship

·	Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany..

·	Visiting Fellowship Programme for International Masters in Economy, State and Society (IMESS), European Union (Euros 9,600).

·	Charles Wallace India Trust Grant, UK Arbeitsstelle Historische Anthropologie, Visiting Fellowship Erfurt University, Germany

·	MPI-Geschicht, Goettingen, Germany

·	DAAD Postdoc Visiting Fellowship

Special Summer University Grant 

·	Internationale Frauenuniversität (International Women’s University, Hanover and Bremen)

Doctoral Fellowship

·	Long Term DAAD grant for Dr. Phil.

Editorship of Cultural and Social History, a Journal of Social History Society, UK since 2016

Advisory Council permanent membership for MIDA (Modern India in German Archives), Germany since 2016