Prof Deepanshu Mohan, Dean, I.D.E.A.S., Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Centre for New Economics Studies, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, and Senior Research Fellow, IIHED, has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow to the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics (LSE) for 2025-26. 

Prof. Mohan has been a Visiting Professor at LSE's Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre in the summer of 2024-25 and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Oxford, where he regularly visits for research, seminar and writing commitments.  

Additionally, Prof. Mohan is an Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Visiting Professor at the School of International Development, University of Ottawa, where he teaches a summer course. He was earlier affiliated with institutions like FGV (Rio, Brazil), Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Carleton University (Canada). 

The Department of Economic History at LSE is one of the oldest learning centers for the teaching and learning of Economic History in the world. Following in a long, distinguished tradition of research and teaching, the Department of Economic History at LSE uses concepts and theories from Social Sciences as a starting point for studying the development of real economies and understanding them in their social, political and cultural contexts. The Department is home to by far the largest group of teachers and researchers in the field of economic, business and social history in the UK and the world.

Prof Mohan's appointment at LSE's Economic History department is a rare achievement for an Indian scholar offered in recognition of his, and his team's research contributions made towards the understanding of urban informality, their research on marginalized vulnerable communities across India, and on studying contemporary India's growth and development landscape. Students of JGU across schools have been involved in some of the most critical ethnographic projects undertaken by the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), which were led by Prof Mohan and his collaborators.

The Visiting Fellowships offered by this Department at LSE has been seldomly offered to research scholars based in South Asia in the past- given the broader disciplinary learning and research focus of its Departmental scholars being centered more on European, African Economic History. During the course of this appointment, Prof. Mohan will be involved in providing a series of lectures, seminars for students of Economic History, Global History, focusing on India, while working on two independent manuscript writing projects along with one in collaboration with a Professor from the Department. One of his forthcoming coauthored manuscripts will be also released there, being published with Routledge (UK, NY), details here.