Dr. Jatinder Mann is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Reading. He specialises in transnational, international, and comparative history, law, and politics with a focus on Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, South Africa, and the British World. Jatinder is also the Creator and Manager of the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Jatinder is British and of South Asian descent, specifically from the Punjab. His current research project is on the ‘Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’. Jatinder has over fifty refereed publications, which include over a dozen books and edited journals. His most recent book is Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination (2026). Jatinder has also published numerous articles in front-ranking and emerging interdisciplinary journals. He is the editor for a book series on ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ with Peter Lang Publishing. Jatinder is also the Editor-in-chief and Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS). He was awarded the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta. Jatinder was also a recipient of the highly competitive Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for his doctoral research at the University of Sydney. He has held visiting fellowships at King’s College London, the Australian National University, Carleton University, and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s 