Sneha Sanyal (Ph.D)

Present Position: Teaching Assistant

Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies

E-mail: sneha.sanyal2@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:


  • Ph.D University of Calcutta
  • M.Phil University of Calcutta
  • M.A in History from Visva-Bharati University
  • B.A in History from Visva-Bharati University

Research Key Areas:


  • History of Modern India
  • History of Medicine and Public Health
  • Gender and Medicine with reference to Nursing
  • Socio-Cultural History of Modern Bengal

Experience:


  • Guest Lecturer, Post-Graduate Department of History, Fakir Chand College (University of Calcutta), Diamond Harbour, South 24 Parganas, Pin-743331, West Bengal – 16th November 2022 to Present
  • Full-Time Lecturer (Contractual), Post-Graduate Department of History, Malda College (University of Gour Banga), P.O. & Dist. Malda, Pin-732101, West Bengal – 18th August 2008 to 22nd December 2011

Research Publication (s):


Journal Articles:-

  • ‘Institutionalization of Nursing Profession in the Early Twentieth Century Bengal’, Indian Journal of History of Science, Vol. 52, No. 3, September 2017, pp. 297-315. (ISSN: 0091-5235)

Reprinted in the UKAHN Bulletin, UK Association for the History of Nursing, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2021. (ISSN: 2049-9744)

  • ‘Nursing as a Profession in Nineteenth Century Bengal’, Social Scientist, Vol. 45, Nos. 3-4, March-April 2017, pp. 69-86. (ISSN: 0970-0293)

Book Chapter: –

  • ‘A Suitable Profession? Women and Nursing in Colonial Bengal, 1900-1930’, in Suvankar Dey (ed.), Health has a History: Revisiting Bengal, Kolkata: K. P. Bagchi, 2021, pp. 161-194.

Award/ Academic Recognition/ Major Professional Activity:


  • Paper presented at Contextualizing Culture, Situating Society: Interrogating India’s Modernity, an International Conference organized by the Department of History, University of Kalyani – 16 and 17 March 2023
  • Certificate Course in Rabindra Sangit from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan in 2003 (Passed with Distinction)