Faculty

Professor Anindya Jyoti Majumdar

Professor and Officiating Director

Areas of interest:

Achin Chakraborty

PhD in Economics, University of California at Riverside, 1995

Professor

Areas of interest: Welfare Economics, Microeconomic issues in development economics, Human Development, Health Economics.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

PhD in Economics, Cambridge University, 1963

Emeritus Professor

Areas of interest: Finance, human development issues and other aspects of development, the prospects of democracy in a globalizing world.

Anwesha Sengupta

PhD in History, CHS, JNU and CSDS

Assistant Professor

Areas of interest: Decolonization in South Asia, Popular Movements in
South Asia, Forced Migration Studies, Border Studies

Bidhan Kanti Das

PhD in Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, 2001

Associate Professor

Areas of interest: Bio diversity conservation strategies and livelihood concerns of local people; Local Forest Management; Social Ecology and Tribal Studies

Gorky Chakraborty

PhD in Economics, Dibrugarh University, 2008

Associate Professor

Areas of interest: Development related issues in North East India

Nandini Ghosh

PhD in Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2008

Assistant Professor

Areas of interest: Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Qualitative Research Methodology.

Pallabi Das

PhD in Population Studies, IIT Kharagpur

Assistant Professor

Areas of interest: Population & Social Geography, Public health, Cultural Demography with focus on Mortality, Morbidity, Nuptiality, Fertility, Family Planning Programs, Maternal & child health, spatial econometrics

Rahul Rajak

PhD in Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, 2021

Assistant Professor

Areas of interest: Occupational Health, Maternal and Adolescent Health, Urban Demography, Population Policies, Quantitative Analysis, and Various Aspect of Review Analysis (Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Narrative Review, Scoping Review, etc.).

Saswata Ghosh

PhD in Population Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2006

Associate Professor

Areas of interest: Fertility, son preference, family planning, maternal and child health, Religious demography

Simantini Mukhopadhyay

Ph.D. in Economics,University of Calcutta

Assistant Professor

Areas of interest: Health Economics, Child Health and Nutrition, Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Microeconometrics.

Subrata Mukherjee

PhD in Economics, Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2006

Associate Professor

Areas of interest: Health economics, quantitative methods and microeconometrics, field survey techniques.

Supurna Banerjee

PhD in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, 2014.

Assistant Professor

Areas of interest: Gender, women, labour, migration, social space and activism.

Abhirup Sarkar

Honorary Visiting Professor

Anindya Sen

Honorary Visiting Professor

Professors

Indrani Chakraborty
Debdas Banerjee
Pinaki Chakraborty
Subhoranjan Dasgupta

Associate Professors

Krishna Soman
Uttam Bhattacharya
Zakir Husain

Assistant Professors / Lecturers

Barnita Bagchi
Jenia Mukherjee
Shamita Basu
Soutrik Basu
Subhanil Chowdhury
Sudeep Basu
Sugeeta Upadhyay
Zakaria Siddiqui

Research Coordinator

Bijoya Roy