This Centre is an interdisciplinary research platform, which will draw on resources of collective scholarship across disciplines. This will evolve as a research collective, grounded in the humanities and social science disciplines covered by the Faculty of Arts, Kazi Nazrul University. As a new and emerging university, Kazi Nazrul University has the potential of becoming a site of advanced research in the domain of social sciences; and the proposed initiative is a step in that direction. In the contemporary moment of unprecedented social changes, it is imperative for any research venture to engage with a critical understanding of the ‘social’ through comprehensive trans-disciplinary interactions. It is in keeping with this rationale that the Centre hopes to tap into global networks of cutting-edge research across divergent social and institutional contexts.
Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Department of English, anindya.purakayastha@knu.ac.in)
Anindya
Sekhar Purakayastha is Associate
Professor in the Department of English and his current area of research engages
with issues of social stratification and technologies of exclusion,
postcolonial political and social violence, contemporary critical theory, academic
activism, prevailing debates in the public sphere, radical political theology,
the Anthropocene, literature of dissidence, and new cultural politics, etc. For
further details visit https://knuedu.academia.edu/ANINDYASEKHARPURAKAYASTHA
Manas Dutta (Department of History, manas.dutta@knu.ac.in)
Manas Dutta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and his current area of research covers issues related to War and Conflict in South Asia, with a special focus on Civil-Military relations in the Global South. Along with this, he is also investigating, as part of his recent research on War and Genocide Studies, on the involvement of native Indian Soldiers in the First World War, with a special emphasis on their performance in the Western Front. For further details visit https://caluniv.academia.edu/ManasDutta
Debaditya Bhattacharya (Department of English, devbhatt01@gmail.com)
Debaditya Bhattacharya teaches literature at Kazi Nazrul
University, West Bengal, India. He researches on continental philosophy, and
writes on contemporary modes of political articulation as well as practices of
mobilization in the Indian context. His current interests cohere around a
'historical sociology' of higher education, with specific attention to Indian
policy contexts. His edited anthologies, The Idea of the University:
Histories and Contexts and The University Unthought: Notes for
a Future, have recently been published as companion volumes from
Routledge. He is co-editor of Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The
State of Hurt (SAGE, 2016).
Tirthankar Ghosh (Department of History, ghoshtirthankar39@gmail.com)
Tirthankar
Ghosh teaches at the Department of History,
Kazi Nazrul University as an Assistant Professor since 2014. His areas of
specialization are – social history of disaster, ecological and environmental
history of India, economic history of India, social and political movements in
colonial and postcolonial India. He is awarded with the ICHG-HGRG Travel
Bursary for presenting seminar paper at the 17th International Conference of
Historical Geographers held at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw in 2018. He is
awarded with the Charles Wallace India Trust research grant to carry out
research at the British Library, Welcome Collection, and Royal Maritime Museum
(Greenwich) in the United Kingdom in 2017. Currently he is working on a Major
Research Project entitled ‘New Social Movements, Media & Civil Society
in Contemporary India: Paradigm Shift in Public Protest and Political
Mobilization’ as a Co-project Director, funded by the Indian Council of
Social Science Research, New Delhi, India. He has contributed in journals
namely, Studies in People’s History, Journal of History, Indian Historical Review, Contemporary
South Asia, Environment and History,
South Asia Research, Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Cafe Disensus etc. He has presented
research paper at several national and international seminar and conferences in
India.
Monalisa Das (Department of Bengali, monalisa78.md@gmail.com)
Monalisa Das is Associate Professor in the Department of Bengali of Kazi Nazrul
University , Asansol. Her primary area of work is theatre, more preciously
child theatre. How child theatre can influence child education or how these two
disciplines can influence each other is her primary area of research. Also
theatre studies and performance are two areas which always attracted her. She
herself being a theatre performer, loves to investigate how new age theatre is
breaking the barrier of stereotype and creating new forms. She studies and
analyses how theatre are bringing the contemporary literature on stage to
influence the society and it's ever changing value system.Currently she is associated with an International
project “Bangladesh o Paschimbange Nazrul Charcha" funded by Bangladesh
UGC. She is primarily fascinated and her present area of research is, Kazi
Nazrul Islam an international literary genius and his humanitarian and secular
approach to create literature which talk and dream about a modern liberal
creative society.
Abhijit Sadhukhan (Department of Bengali, asadhukhan272@gmail.com)
Abhijit
Sadhukhan is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Bengali, KaziNazrul University. He has done his Graduation and Masters
from Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University respectively in the year 2012
and 2014. He took admission in the Department of Comparative Literature,
Jadavpur University for M.Phil programme in 2015. His M.Phil dissertation was
on the Caste system in GaudiyaVaisnavism where he tried to explore the impact
of various Bhakti schools and
religious network on GaudiyaVaisnavismregarding caste regulations. He received
SYLFF (SasakawaYoung Leaders Fellowship Fund) Fellowship, funded by Nippon
Foundation, Japan for this dissertation. Now he has been working on Social Mobility and the formation of caste
structure in Chaitanyaite Vaisnava Sects of Bengal (16th - 18th
century) in his doctoral programme. Abhijit is particularly interested in Medieval
Indian Literature with special reference to caste system and tries to figure
out how caste system tends to change across time and space and what are factors
that contribute to that change.
Apree Dutta (Department of Philosophy, aprnet12june@gmail.com)
Apree Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. She is doing her Doctoral research in the Department
of Philosophy, University of Calcutta and her researches focus on Indian philosophy, and writes on
various aspects of Indian philosophy. She has completed her M. Phil in the
Department of Philosophy, University of Calcutta in 2012. Her current interests
cohere around the Buddhist philosophy, with specific attention to Indian context.
Shuvabrata Poddar (Department of Applied Psychology, shuvabrata.poddar@gmail.com)
Shuvabrata
Poddar is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Applied Psychology. He is pursuing his doctoral research in the Department
of Psychology, University of Calcutta. He has completed his M.Phil on the
Medical and Social Psychology in the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi.
His current areas of research interests are personality studies, Third wave
Therapies, neuropsychological rehabilitation and psychodynamics. In 2016 he has received the Bharat
Bikash Award as a young Scientist in the field of Psychology.
