Dr. 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 and shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, received an honorable mention for the Association for Asian Studies' Bernard S. Cohn Prize, and won the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize.
Jackson's articles on Northeast India, historical methodology, and pedagogy appear in Modern Asian Studies, History Compass, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, and Studies in History. A Dean of Arts Teaching Award winner at KPU, he teaches 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)
- ARTS 4800: Arts Practicum
- 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.
Books
The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890-1920
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023
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)