Suvajit Halder
Present Position: Assistant Professor
Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Cultural Studies
E-mail: suvajit1.halder@adamasuniversity.ac.in
Education:
- Ph.D (Submitted) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- M.A. in History, Presidency University, Kolkata.
Research Key Areas:
- Food History.
- Socio-Cultural history.
- History of Bengal.
- History of Modern Bengal.
Experience:
- Worked as Gust Faculty for Post-Graduate course, in the Department of History, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore in Even Semester.
- Worked as Guest Lecturer in the Department of Ancient India and World History, in The Sanskrit College and University, 1 Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata- 700073 from 23/11/2021 to 11/10/2022.
Research Publication (s):
- “Bread, Biscuits and Fowl: A Brief History of Caste and Middleclass Dietary Practices in Colonial Bengal”, Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Vol. 78, 2018, ISSN 2249-1937.
Research Projects:
- Coordinator of the module on “Food Cultures of Bengal”, Sahapedia, https://www.sahapedia.org/food-cultures-of-bengal
- Worked as research assistant for a project titled “The Globalizing Impact of the Second World War on India” for a period of three months from December 2016 to February 2017, under Dr.Indivar Kamtekar.
- Worked as research assistant for a book titled State, Power and Legitimacy:The Gupta Kingdom, edited by Kunal Chakrabarti and Kanad Sinha, Primus Books, 2018.