Kyle Jackson
BA (SFU), MA (SOAS), PhD (Warwick)
Kyle Jackson completed a Ph.D. (Warwick, 2017) on the environmental and religious history of Northeast India under the supervision of Professor Emeritus David Hardiman and Professor Roberta Bivins. Jackson's thesis was a finalist for the Royal Asiatic Society's Bayly Prize and was awarded the International Convention of Asia Scholars' "Ground-breaking Subject Matter Accolade." His first book, The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890-1920, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.
Jackson's articles on Northeast India, historical methodology, and pedagogy appear in Modern Asian Studies, History Compass, and Studies in History. A Dean of Arts Teaching Award winner at KPU, he teaches and researches global histories of colonialism, religion, and animals
Courses taught
- ARTS 3993: Undergraduate Research (Mountains in Motion: Researching the Great Assam Earthquake in Upland Northeast India)
- ARTS 3993: Undergraduate Research (Public History: Global, Local, and Digital Approaches)
- HIST 1105: Changemakers
- HIST 1130: Empires in Arms: The Twentieth-Century World, 1900-1945
- HIST 1131: Atom Bombs to the Internet: The Twentieth-Century World, 1945-2000
- HIST 1190: Explorations in History: Dictators in World History
- HIST 2300: Introduction to World Civilizations
- HIST 2303: Bark, Bleat, Buzz: Animals in Global History
- HIST 2390: History Go! An Interactive Historical Experience
- HIST 4405: Digital History
- HIST 4499: Selected Topic: Animals in Global History
- HIST 4499: Selected Topic: Oceans of History
- HIST 4499: Selected Topic: Global Indigenous History
- HIST 4499: Special Topic: The Stench of Cities, the Sounds of Battles: Exploring History Through Our Senses
Areas of Interest
Colonialism, religion, animals, labour, digital history, sensory history, and graphic history.
Scholarly Work
- “Travellers, Sojourners, and Wayfarers” in The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, edited by Jelle J. P. Wouters and Tanka B. Subba (London: Routledge, 2022).
- "Possessing Christianity in Northeast India: Kelkang, 1937,” Modern Asian Studies (2020).
- "Teaching and Learning Guide for 'The Unbelieved and Historians, Parts I and II,'" with Luke Clossey, History Compass 15.4 (2017): e12379.
- "Gods, Spirits, People", with Andrew Redden in Using Primary Sources: A Practical Guide for Students, edited by Jonathan Hogg and Laura Balderstone (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017).
- "The Unbelieved and Historians, Part I: A Challenge," with Luke Clossey, Brandon Marriott, Andrew Redden, and Karin Vélez, History Compass 14.2 (2016): 594-602 (open access).
- "The Unbelieved and Historians, Part II: Proposals and Solutions”, with Luke Clossey, Brandon Marriott, Andrew Redden, and Karin Vélez. History Compass 15.1 (2017): e12370 (open access).
- “Globalizing an Indian Borderland Environment: Aijal, Mizoram, 1890–1919.” Studies in History 32.1 (2016): 39-71.
- “Hearing Images, Tasting Pictures: Making Sense of Christian Mission Photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920)” in From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme, Maja Kominko, ed. (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015), 445-485.
- The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)