Evaluative Reports of the Departments Faculty of Science Departmental Profile| Page 381 Department of Anthropology 1. Name of the Department: ANTHROPOLOGY 2. Year of establishment: 1985 3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university?: Faculty of Science 4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.): PG and Ph. D. 5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: Ph.D. Course work. 6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc: No 7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: No 8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System: Semester 9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments : a). Abhijit Guha has been teaching the basic statistics in the Department of Remote Sensing & GIS. b). Falguni Chakrabarty is involved in teaching Environmental Science in DDE. c). Kaushik Bose is involved in teaching growth and nutrition in the Department of Biomedical Science & laboratory Technology. 10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate Professors/Asst. Professors/others) Actual (including Sanctioned Filled CAS & MPS) Professor 1 1 1 Associate Professors 2 2 3 Asst. Professors 5 3 2 Others (Asst. Professors, Contractual) Nil Nil Nil Departmental Profile| Page 382 11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Qualificati Designatio Specialization No. of No. of Ph.D./ on n years of M.Phil. experienc students e guided for the last 4 years Falguni M.Sc., Ph. Professor Pre-History & 27 years 9 continuing Chakraborty D. Social-cultural Anthropology Abhijit Guha M.Sc., Associate Social- cultural 28 years 3 and M.Phil.,Ph Professor Anthropology 3 continuing . D. Kaushik S. M.Sc., Ph. Associate Biological 12 years 5 and Bose D. Professor Anthropology 8 Continuing Sudip Dutta M.Sc., Ph. Reader Biological 10 years 1 Banik D. Anthropology (resigned on 03.02.2013) Dipak K. M.Sc., Ph. Associate Social -cultural 3 years 5 continuing Midya D. Professor Anthropology Amit Kisku M. Sc., Assistant Social -cultural 7 years (on study M. Phil. Professor Anthropology leave) Sovanjan M.Sc., Ph. Assistant Biological 2 years 2 continuing Sarkar D. Professor Anthropology 12. 12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors Sl Period Name of the faculty As Designation No. 1 2008-2010 Prof. Rajat Kanti Das Emiratus UGC Emiratus Fellow, Fellow Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University 2 February, Dr. Subha Ray UGC Associate Professor, 2014 Visiting Department of Fellow Anthropology University of Calcutta 35, Bullygunge Circular Road Kolkata - 700019 13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme wise information: No Departmental Profile| Page 383 14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio: PG 10:1 Ph D (Course Work) 8:1 15. Number of academic support staff (technical) anadministrative staff: sanctionedfilled and actual sanctioned filled actual academic support staff (technical) Nil Nil administrative staff Nil 1 (Peon) on casual basis. 16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies Sl. No. Thrust areas Funding agencies PI 1 Anthropology of Rural Directorate of Cottage and Prof. Falguni Handicrafts of West Bengal Small-scale Industries, Chakrabarty Govt. of West Bengal 2 Health and Nutritional status DFID (United Kingdom); Dr. Kaushik Bose of Population Planning Commission (Government of India) 3 Cardiovascular and hepatic ICSSR, New Delhi; Dr. Sudip Dutta risk factor-related health and DST, Govt. of W.B. Banik nutritional status 4 Pulmonary function and UGC (start-up project) Dr. Sovanjan Sarkar lifestyles 5 Assessment of development ICSSR Dr. Santanu Panda, of a PTG in W.B. ICSSR Post-Doctoral fellow (A. Guha) 17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project title and grants received project-wise. Status Funding agency Project title Total grant received 1. Directorate of BACKGROUND Rs. 2,40,000/- Cottage and Small- RESEARCH, scale Industries, ECONOMIC AND (Completed in 2010) Govt. of West STATUS SURVEY OF Bengal TERRACOTTA AND DOKRA CRAFTS OF WEST BENGAL 2 UGC PREVALENCE OF Rs. 6,00,000/- CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) AND PULMONARY FUNCTION AND ITS LIFESTYLE CORRELATES AMONG VARIOUS Departmental Profile| Page 384 OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS OF MIDNAPORE TOWN, WEST BENGAL, INDIA\ 18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received a)National collaboration b) International collaboration a) National collaboration: 1. Dr. Kaushik Bose has conducted a collaborative project with Dr. P.R. Mondal of the Department of Anthropology, Delhi University (Project amount: Rs. 50,000.00). 2. Dr. Sudip DuttaBanik has conducted a collaborative project funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal, with Dr. P. K. Kundu, School of Tropical medicine, Kolkata (Grant received: Rs. 9,00,000.00) b) International collaboration : 1) Dr. Kaushik Bose conducted a collaborative project with Prof. Stanley Ulijaszek, Director, Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO), University of Oxford, U.K. 2) Dr. Kaushik Bose conducted a collaborative project with Dr. Slawomir Koziel, Director, Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. 19. Departmental projects funded by DST FIST;UGCSAP/CAS, DPE; DBT ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received: No 20. Research facility / centre with state recognition No national recognition No international recognition No 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies : Nil 22. Publications: (during 2010 – 2013). Separate sheets attached Annexe-1 List of Publications in last five (5) years Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) = 108 Monographs = 02 Chapters in Books = 31 Edited Books = 12 Books with ISBN with details of publishers = Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) = Citation Index – range / average = Departmental Profile| Page 385 Research Impact (Google Scholar): K. Bose: h-Index = 15; i10-Index = 27 A. Guha: h-Index = 5; i10-Index =2 S. Dutta Banik: h-index - 4; i10 index - 1 Sovanjan Sarkar: h-index: 04 SNIP = SJR = Impact Factor – range / = h-index 0 -15; i10-index: 0-27 Average = H-index = 23. Details of patents and income generated: No 24. Areas of consultancy and income generated – Areas of consultancy Institute/organization with Faculty Income generated Tribal Land Alienation in Cultural Research Dr. Abhijit Guha Nil West Bengal Institute, Backward (since 2013) Classes Welfare Department, Govt. of W.B. 25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions / industries in India and abroad: Faculty Laboratory/ Institute As Falguni Chakrabarty Manipur University Visiting Professor West Bengal State University Resource person in ICSSR- sponsored Workshop on Research methodology Abhijit Guha Department of Sociology, Visiting Fellow Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University North Bengal University Visiting Fellow and Calcutta University Resource person in Burdwan University Refresher courses West Bengal State University, Resource person in ICSSR- sponsored Workshop on Research methodology Center of Advanced Study in Visiting Fellow Anthropology, Utkal University Kaushik Bose North Bengal University Resource person in Refresher courses Departmental Profile| Page 386 West Bengal State University Resource person in ICSSR- sponsored Workshop on Research methodology Sudip Dutta Banik El Instituto de Investigaciones Workshop participant (April, Antropológicas (UNAM, 2010). Ciudad de Mexico). Mexico. Dipak K Midya Indian Institute of Advanced UGC-IUC Associate (2012, Studies, Shimla; 2014) Yanajati Charcha Kendra, Resource person in Rabindra Bharati University workshop Amit K Kisku SOAS, University of London For pursuing Ph.D. 26. Faculty serving in a) National committees : 1. Abhijit Guha has been nominated as a Member of the Advisory Committee in a study under the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-sponsored Studies Programme entitled ‘The Exclusion of Muslim Outcastes in West Bengal: The State-centric Discourse and Emerging Issues’ being conducted by Professor Abhijit Dasgupta of the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, since July 2013. 2. Falguni Chakrabarty has been serving as the Member of the Anthropological Committee of the Asiatic Society and as an expert in various UGC teams. 3. Acted as an Expert in the Standing Committee on Rural Development of the Lok Shabha in connection with the land acquisition amendment bill. b) International committees : 1. Kaushik Bose has been serving as a Member and Expert of Child Health and Nutrition Knowledge Network (CHNKN) of Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) headed by Robert Black of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, since 2010. 2. Sudip Dutta Banik was selected as an Executive Committee Member in the Commission on the Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood, The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). November 2012.