Brief Bionote Dr. Samir Kumar DAS Is Professor of Political Science And
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Brief Bionote Dr. Samir Kumar DAS is Professor of Political Science and presently the Director Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, at the University of Calcutta, India. Formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta and Adjunct Professor of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, he is presently the Coordinator of the University Grants Commission- Departmental Research Support (UGC-DRS) Programme on ‘Democratic Governance’. A Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program) and a Visitng Professor to Universite 13 Sorbonne Paris Cite, he specializes in and writes on issues of ethnicity, security, migration, rights, justice and democracy. Biodata 1. Name : SAMIR KUMAR DAS 2. Emails [email protected]; [email protected] 4. Contact Phone Nos. : (91-33) 2429-7341 ®, 9830210265 (M) 5. Present Designation : Professor of Political Science University of Calcutta 4. Present Official Address :Department of Political Science University of Calcutta Kolkata - 700027 8. 10. Academic Qualifications : M.A., Ph.D. 9. Distinctions: Selected as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Social Science Research Council (New York), South Asia Programme, 2005. Deputy Coordinator of the DRS Programme (First Phase) on Democratic Governance in Indian States under UGC Special Assistance Programme since 2005 till 2010. Selected for and conducted Study Visit to European Academy (EURAC) for researching on the ‘Autonomy Experience and the New Minorities in South Tyrol’ in 2008. Visiting Faculty, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2008. Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2009. Visiting Professor, Tripura University, 2003. 1 Visiting Scholar (2009), Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Visiting Fellow, Department of International Relations (under the Centre for Advanced Study Programme), Jadavpur University (Kolkata) in November 2009. Visiting Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2011. Visiting Professor, Centre for Advanced Study, Department of Political science, University of Pune in 2012. Adjunct Professor of Government, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University in 2014. Visiting Professor, Universite Paris in 2016. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Social Change and Development, Journal of ICSSR OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati. External Reviewer of the European Research Council (ERC), European Commission, Brussels in 2015. Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi under its CAS UGC-SAP in 2017. Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Tezpur (Central) University in 2019. 10. Memberships and institutional affiliations: Member of the Governing Body, G. B. Pant Institute of Social Sciences, Allahabad, 2020. Expert Member in the Curricular Development Committee, Department of Strategic and Regional Studies, Jammu University 2019. Nominated Member (Social Science/Ethics) of the Institutional Human Ethics Committee of the Anthropology Survey of India, Government of India since 2019. Member of the Expert Committee in Political Science, West Bengal State Book Board, Government of West Bengal 2019. Former Editor, The Calcutta Journal of Political Studies Member of the Editorial Team, Journal of Media and Social Development (University of Mysore under UPE II) Member of the Editorial Board, Jammu Journal of Social Science Member of the Editorial Board, Strategic Studies (Jammu University) Member of the Board of Studies in Political Science, Amity University Kolkata. Member of the Academic Council, Seacom Skills University, Shantiniketan. Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Society and Polity (SSP), Brahmaputra Institute of Research and Development. Member of the Expert Committee in Comparative Politics, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in 2016. Member, Post-Graduate Board of Studies in 'Human Rights and Human Development', Rabindra Bharati University. 2 External Member, Research Advisory Committee, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. Member of the Expert Committee in International Relations, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), 2016. Nominated as a Member of the Advisory Board of Postcolonial Text, Quarterly Journal in collaboration with Stanford University since 1 June 2016. ISSN 1705-9100 Member, Editorial Board, International Review of Political Studies (Ankara), ISSN No. 2458-8369. Serving as a country expert for the survey on ‘Measuring Elite Power and Interactions conducted by V-Dem Institute, (Varieties of Democracy Institute, Gothenberg University, Sweden) and World Bank. Consulted as an Expert in the Electoral Integrity Project of the University of Sydney and Harvard University in 2016. Former Vice President, Indian Association of International Studies Member of the Expert Committee for finalizing the new course structure of Comparative Government and Politics, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi Member, Steering Committee, Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata Consulted in the preparation of the report on ‘The State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples’ by Minority Rights International, London in 2014 Consulted in the preparation of the report on ‘The State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples’ by Minority Rights International, London in 2015. Formerly nominated by the Government of West Bengal as a member of the Governing Body of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Member of the Faculty Committee of the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2013-2015) Nominated by UGC as a Member of the Advisory Committee of the DRS Programme on ‘Indian Politics with reference to Social Exclusion’ of the Department of Studies in Political Science, University of Mysore Member, Board of the School of Social Sciences, North Eastern Hill University (2010-2012). Formerly nominated by UGC as a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) Programme of the Department of Political Science, Osmania University Former member of the Social Science Academic Council, Mizoram University (2009- 2014) Former Expert Member, Curriculum Development Committee, M. Phil. and Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Resolution, Sikkim University. Former Member of the Expert Committee on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Former Member, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Former Member, International Studies Association (ISA) 3 Former Nominee of the University Grants Commission to the Advisory Committee of the Special Assistance Porgramme (SAP) Phase I, Department of Political Science, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Former Member, Committee of Courses and Studies, M.A., Gauhati University Former Member of the Expert Committee on School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi Former Member, Expert Committee for the Gandhian Studies Programme, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Served as a Member of the Editorial Board of West Bengal Political Science Review (2003-2007). Life Member of the North-East India Council for Social Science Research with its headquarters in Shillong, Meghalaya Life Member of North-East India Social Science Congress (NEISSCONG) based in Shillong, Meghalaya Life Member of North East India Political Science Association (NEIPSA) Former Member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (2002-5). Former Member of the Academic Programme Committee of Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (Guwahati) of Indian Council Of Social Science Research (ICSSR). 11. Professional Experience : (a) Served Presidency College as a Lecturer in Political Science between 17.8.1983 and 22.1.1985. (b) Served as a Lecturer in Political Science, University of Calcutta between 22.1.1985 and 17.8.1991. (c) Served as a Lecturer in Senior Scale between 17.8.1991 and 22.11.1997. (d) Served as a Reader between 22.11.1997 and 22.11.2005. (e) Serves as a Professor from 22.11.2005 (f) Vice-Chancellor, University of North Bengal from 1.4.2012 to 10.2.2014, (g) Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta since 18 March 2014 to 17 March 2017. (h) Adjunct Professor, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University in 2014 (i) Visiting Professor, North East India Studies Programme (NEISP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) since 1 August, 2015 to 27 October 2015. (j) Professeuer Invite (Visiting Professor), Universite Paris 13 (University of Paris 13) under Universite Sorbonne-Paris Cite (USPC), Winter & Spring Semesters 2016. (k) Head of the Department of Political Science since 25 April 2017 till 19 April 2019. (l) Director, Institute of Foreign Policy Studies since 2019. 4 12. Select list of publications: A. Books (authored, edited & coedited) 1. Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India (Milton Park/New Delhi: Routledge, 2018), authored. ISBN 978-1-138-59740-2 (hbk), ISBN 978-1- 351-17526-5 (ebk). 2. India: Democracy and Violence (New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2015), edited. ISBN 13-978-19-945183-8,