Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

since 10/2014
PhD Candidate at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Research Group REALEURASIA

9/2010 - 9/2013
Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven
Specialized in Migration, Minorities and Multiculturalism

7/2007 - 7/2010
Bachelor of Arts, Jadavpur University
Majored in Sanskrit. Minored in Tribes of India, Mass Communication,
Psychology

Research and Fieldwork Experience

06/2014 – 08/2014
Deforestation and Land Alienation: Living on the Edge - a study on an endangered tribe. (worked as University Grants Commission funded project fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of North Bengal)

12/2012 - 03/2013
The Pursuit of a Livable Identity: Aspirations and Pathways for Social Mobility among the Namasudras of West Bengal
(Research for Masters Dissertation under Prof. Dr. P. Hermans and Dr. H. Roos)

03/2011 - 05/2011
Indian students in Leuven: Expectations and Experiences
(Ethnographic Fieldwork course)

Awards

2010
Selected as a scholarship recipient by the European Commission’s initiative, Erasmus Mundus External  Cooperation Window EURINDIA to study in KU Leuven, Belgium

Languages

Bengali (native)
English (fluent)
Hindi (fluent)
Sanskrit (intermediate)
Dutch (beginner)
German (beginner)