BINATA SARKAR Assistant Professor of History The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India Cell : (0) 9434105675, Email : [email protected] RESIDENCE OFFICE 501/3, Indraprastha, Department of History Baburbag, P.O. – Rajbati, University of Burdwan Burdwan, West Bengal Golapbag, Burdwan, West Bengal Pin – 713104 Pin – 713104 Cell : 9434105675 Phone : 0342-2657882 EDUCATION : 2010 Ph.D. History, University of Burdwan, Burdwan Malaria and Medical Intervention : Burdwan District 1860–1947 2003 M. Phil History, University of Burdwan, Burdwan Ecology and Epidemic : A Case Study of Malaria fever in Burdwan from 1860 – 1930. 1998 B.Ed., Govt. College of Education, University of Burdwan, Burdwan 1996 M.A. History, University of Burdwan, Burdwan 1994 B.A. (Honours) History, M.U.C. Women’s College, Burdwan PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : February 2008 Assistant Professor of History, University of Burdwan, onwards West Bengal. December 2001 to Lecturer in History, Government undergraduate colleges January 2008 (WBES) in West Bengal. RESEARCH INTERESTS : History of Medicine and Public Health. TEACHING INTERESTS : History of South East Asia, Indian National Movement, History of Science Technology and Medicine. TEACHING EXPERIENCE : Post-Graduate Courses taught Burma and Indo-China : Continuity and Change, 103. Indonesia and Malaysia : Changing Experiences, 203 Indian National Movement : 1885 – 1947, 301 Indian Nation in the Twentieth Century, 401 SUPERVISED M.PHIL. DISSERTATION PROJECTS : 2010 Shanta Das “Swadhinata Parabarti Parjaye Barddhaman Jelar Krishi Unayaner Itihas (1947 – 2000) 2012 Surapa Mukherjee “Bangla Sahityer Chotogalper Prakshite Banga- narir Pragatir Itihas (Unbinsha Shatak O Bingha Shatak) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE : At present working on child health and education policy in India and history of public health in Burma. SELECTED PUBLICATION : Book chapter Malaria fever and its control in Burdwan district : A critique on colonial health policy in Arabinda Samanta, Syed Tanveer Nasreen & Aparajita Dhar ed. Life and culture in Bengal. Colonial and Post Colonial Experience, Kolkata, April, 2011. Proceeding Volume Embankments Ecological Degradation: A case study of Malarial Fever in Burdwan (1860-1930) in Environica, vol.I Kolkata, December2014. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES : National : Experiencing the maladies of colonial Bengal :Burdwan District 1860- 1930 at the UGC-DRS-SAP, National Seminar on Life and Culture in Bengal Colonial and Postcolonial experiences, organized by Department of History ,The University of Burdwan, 19-20, March,2009. Ailing Bengal : Malarial fever and popular response in Burdwan District at the UGC-DRS-SAP, National Seminar on Interrogating Modernity in Bengal : Historical space and conceptual frame organized by the Department of History, The University of Burdwan, 10-11, March, 2010. Burdwan fever :Western and Indigenous Medicine at the UGC-DRS- SAP, National Seminar on Rethinking Bengal : Structure ,Agency and Paradigm, organized by Department of History, The University of Burdwan, 24-25, February, 2011. Revisiting the Public Health in Colonial Bengal through the Biography of Dr. Rai Bahadur Gopal Chandra Chatterjee at the UGC-DRS-SAP, National Seminar on Biography, Autobiography, Memoir : Contextualizing Bengal organized by the Department of History, The University of Burdwan, 23 – 24, February, 2012. International : ‘Child Health and Patterns of Educational Policy : Bengal, From 1910 to the present’, at the 6th Biennial International Conference of Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 17-19 December, 2012. Medical Intervention and Sanitary Development in Burma:A Retrospect, at the International Seminar on India’s Look East Policy: Gleanings from the past to the present organized by Department of History, The University of Burdwan in collaboration with Department of South and South East Asia, C.U &IAAPS,18-19,December2013. Embankments and Ecological Degradation :A case study of malarial fever in Burdwan(1860-1930),at the International Seminar on “Mother Earth: Save it to achieve a sustainable future for All,organized by Dept. of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan,10-12 December2014. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS : Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies. Indian History Congress .