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Dr Joppan George commenced his appointment as Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster with effect from 22 August 2022.

Dr George has a PhD in History from Princeton University (2019). He is a historian of modern South Asia who studies the transformations of colonial society under the impact of science and technology. Currently, he is finalising the manuscript of his first monograph, Airborne Colony, which investigates the culture and politics of colonial aviatic practices in South Asia. By focusing on the new ways of moving, seeing and knowing engineered through a series of specific deployments of aviation, his book traces the powers of this imperial technology to further claim and control the colony through survey and surveillance.  This book project revises and expands his doctoral dissertation that won the 2019 Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the Society for the History of Technology.