Skip to main content

About Johan Mathew

Johan Mathew specializes in the history of the Indian Ocean with a focus on illicit trade and commercial regulation in the 19th and 20th centuries. His article "Trafficking Labor: Abolition and the Exchange of Labor across the Arabian Sea" appeared in the journal Slavery & Abolition in the spring of 2012. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled "Margins of the Market: Trafficking and the Framing of Free Trade in the Arabian Sea" which is based on his PhD Dissertation. The manuscript explores the trafficking of people, weapons and currency in order to delineate how illicit trade and commercial regulation framed colonial capitalism. Mathew has received awards and fellowships from Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the South Asia Initiative at Harvard, the Business History Conference, and the Shelby Collum Davis Center at Princeton University. He teaches courses on the economics of piracy, slavery in the Muslim World, and the history of the Indian Ocean.

Positions

Present Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
to
Present Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
to

Disciplines



$
to
Enter a valid date range.

to
Enter a valid date range.

Honors and Awards

  • Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Graduate Fellowship K. Austin Kerr Prize (Honorable Mention), Business History Conference, April 2011
  • 2016 Sawyer Seminar Awards, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Contact Information

934 Thompson Hall
200 Hicks Way
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel: 413-545-6706 & 413-545-1330

Email:


This author has not uploaded works yet.