CV Sohini Majumdar [email protected] CURRENT University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Department of History Illinois PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant Major Field: Modern South Asia Minor Fields: Comparative Migration and World History Current GPA. 4.00. EDUCATION BACKGROUND Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences India MPhil in Modern History March 2014 ● During my MPhil, I worked on communal politics and ethnic relations in Calcutta, India during British colonial period. ● Received Certificate of Appreciation for successfully participating in “The Media and Forced Migration Workshop” as a part of “The Tenth Orientation Programme on Forced Migration” organized by MCRG and supported by British Deputy High Commission, Kolkata. Uppsala University Uppsala, ● Secured full fellowship and participated in Linnaeus-Palme Sweden Exchange Programme, Department of History. December 2010 University of Calcutta Kolkata, Master of Arts, History India ● Secured First Class and ranked Second in University for 2 years of July 2010 Master’s Program ● Published articles in “Perspective”, a magazine published by the History Department of the University of Calcutta ● Former member of Gandhian Studies Centre, The University of Calcutta. Participated and presented a paper, titled “Gandhi’s Communication Strategies in Mass Movements”, in a seminar organized by the Gandhian Centre. Presidency College, University of Calcutta Kolkata, Bachelor of Arts, History India ● Secured First Class and ranked third amongst all colleges under May 2008 University of Calcutta. Publications: ● A Different Calcutta: INA Trials and Hindu-Muslim Solidarity in 1945 and 1946 in Tanika Sarkar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (ed.) Calcutta: The Stormy Decades, Social Science Press, New Delhi, April 1, 2015 1 ● Book Review of Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and Partition of India, Harvard University Press, 2011, published in Refugee Watch Online (co- publication of Refugee Watch), January 16, 2013 ● Reviewing Partition: A Spatial Transformation published in Perspective, University of Calcutta, March 2010 ● Book Review of Gyanendra Pandey’s Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India, Cambridge University Press, 2001, published in Perspective, University of Calcutta, March 2009 Paper Presentations: ● "Communal Conflicts and Public Discourses: The Crisis of National Belonging in India," Annual UCLA Graduate Student Association Conference on Contexts of Crisis: Danger, Opportunity, and the Unknown, April 2017. ● Contesting the National: Bengali Muslims and Multiple Forms of Belonging in Postcolonial South Asia," 13th Annual Graduate History Symposium on Canada 150: Defining the Nation in a Transnational World, May 2017 Honors, Awards, and Fellowships ● Dean’s Scholar Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, August 2020 to August 2021 ● Provost’s Graduate Research Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019 ● Summer Travel Award, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019 ● Peter R. D’ Agostino Memorial Scholarship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017 ● GSC Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017 ● Graduate College Student Presenters Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017 ● History Doctoral Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2016 ● Order of Merit Certificate, University of Calcutta, 2010. ● Order of Merit Certificate, University of Calcutta, 2008 ● Indira Gandhi PG Scholarship, University Grants Commission, 2008-2010, India. 2 .