Soni
Assistant Professor
Department of History
GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Visakhapatnam
Education
Ph. D.
soni@gitam.edu
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Soni Completed her PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2021. She was also an Institute postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay from 2022-2024. Her postdoctoral research was recently awarded the Marie-curie Seal of Excellence Award. Her areas of specialization include childhood, youth, and gender history.
Research Publications
- Soni, Laying the Foundation of the “Native” Christian Community: Church Missionary Society and its Experiments with Orphans and Orphanages, 1840s–1920s. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Taylor and Francis) 45. no. 5, 2022: 924–942.
- Soni, Learning to Labour: ‘Native’ Orphans in Colonial India, 1840s– 1920s. International Review of Social History (Cambridge University Press) 65, no. 1, 2020: 15–42.
- Soni, Pande, Ishita. Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India 1891-1937. London: Cambridge University Press, 2020, H-Soz-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94611
- Soni, Sleight, Simon and Shirleene Robinson, eds. Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, H-Soz-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-25179.
Expertise
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childhood and youth history, gender, caste, transnational and global history
Authored Books
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Soni, 'Saving' the Orphans: Historicizing Child Protection in Colonial India, 1840s-1940s (under contract, Palgrave Macmillan)
