David Vumlallian Zou

David Vumlallian Zou (born 25 January 1977) is a historian of modern South Asia with special interest in north-east India. His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes colonial history, book history, gender history, ethno-history, indigenous identities and historical geography.

Education
David V. Zou graduated in English literature (Major) from St. Anthony's College, Shillong, under North Eastern Hill University. He completed his MA and MPhil from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his MPhil dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Majid H. Siddiqi.

A fully funded PhD scholarship by the Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland) enabled him to pursue his PhD at Queen's University Belfast where he worked under M. Satish Kumar and David N. Livingstone on print culture and identity formation in colonial north-east India.

Career and research
Zou joined the faculty of History Department in 2009, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, where he teaches a paper on rise of capitalism and approaches to global history along with some aspects of labor history to postgraduate students. He is currently a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) since February 2010,. and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011.

Zou is currently completing a monograph titled, Print, Identity and Gender in colonial Mizoram, to be published by SAGE Publications as a part of SAGE Studies of India's North East.