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Visualizing the East India Company

Tableau Data History

A comprehensive visualization of commodity flows from 1660–1834. This project addresses the lack of unified data on the EIC, allowing historians to track changes in trade patterns over two centuries through an interactive interface.

Academic Profile

Education

PhD, History

Boston College (2023 - Present)

PG Diploma, History

Krea University (2022 - 2023)

Thesis: "The Fluid Relationship between Interlopers and the East India Company in the Late 17th Century: Evidence from the Diary of William Hedges (1681-1687)"

BA (Hons.), Economics

Krea University (2019 - 2022)

Capstone: "The Hundi System in Medieval India"

Awards & Fellowships

University Fellowship

Boston College, 2023-

Presidential Fellowship

Boston College, 2023-

Teaching Assistant

Global Environmental History

Fall 2025 • Dr. Rachel Brody

Discussion Section

Asia in the World 2

Spring 2025 • Dr. Franziska Seraphim

Discussion Section

Europe in the World 2

Fall 2024 • Dr. Devin Pendas

Grading TA

Presentations

Boston Digital Humanities Symposium

April 2025

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Digital Experience

Digital Scholarship Intern

Institute of Liberal Arts, Boston College

Developed a dataset schema for 19th-century Boston police ledgers, encoding over 4,000 observations and building a public website for interactive analysis.

© 2025 Munirmahedi Paviwala