Dev Nath Pathak
Dr. Dev Nath Pathak is senior assistant professor in Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi (India). He has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and his research interest consist broadly of cultural performances, art, music, and popular cinema in the region of south Asia. He is reviews editor of the journal ‘Society and Culture in South Asia’ (a journal of the South Asian University, published by Sage India) and on the editorial board of Journal of Human Values (IIM, Calcutta). Some of his recent publications include: Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore; while he has edited Another South Asia, and coedited edited Culture and Politics in South Asia; Performative Communication, Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices, and other such works opening new frontiers in researches. He was a visiting scholar at Brown International Advance Research Institute, at Brown University and a Charles Wallace fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.
Bhaskarjit Neog
Bhaskarjit Neog, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi took up the residency with MCHV during February 2018. Dr Neog has Double M.A. in Applied Ethics from Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Linköping University, Sweden with Erasmus Mundus Fellowship. He has a Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. Dr Neog has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Philosophy, Australian National University and at Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Australia with Endeavour Fellowship from the Government of Australia. He has published in the Indian Journal of Analytic Philosophy and the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
During his residency at MCHV, apart from furthering a personal research project in the area of values, Dr Neog gave a seminar titled ‘Collective Moral Agency: Looking Under the Hood’, and did a workshop for doctoral students of IIM Calcutta on ‘The Operating System of Ethics’.
Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
Nabanipa Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, took up the residency at MCHV during February-March 2018. Dr Bhattacharjee has M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been a US Department of State Scholar at the Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. During the residency, apart from furthering a personal research project in the area of cosmopolitanism, Dr Bhattacharjee gave a research seminar titled ‘Afterwards of Violence: Revisiting Shillong's Cosmopolitan Tradition’, and did a workshop for doctoral students of IIM Calcutta on ‘Questions of Rigour and Review in Academic Publishing’.
Tapan Kumar Sarker
Tapan Kumar Sarker, PhD from The Australian National University, Canberra, currently working with the Griffith Business School is Research Chair, Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University, Australia. His recent work has appeared, amongst others, in Small Enterprise Research, Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Corporate Citizenship. A former World Bank scholar, he was Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, USA in 2011 and at Keio University, Japan during 2012-14.
During his residency at the MCHV, he shared his expertise and experience with students and faculty members at the Institute through a seminar presentation on ‘Pathways to a sustainable future: the prospects and challenges for Indian business’. Dr Sarkar also conducted a workshop with the doctoral students on ‘Systematic Quantitative Literature Review for Inter-disciplinary Research’, and furthered a personal research project in the area of sustainability and values.
Rajiv George Aricat
Rajiv George Aricat has a Masters in Communications and Journalism from the University of Kerala, MPhil from the JNU, and a PhD in 2015 from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked in the editorial departments of news agencies and web portals in New Delhi for half a decade.
Rajiv works in the area of social and ethical uses of technology with a focus on the impact of mobile phone on the acculturation of migrant workers in Singapore and Myanmar. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Nanyang Technological University, he has published in the Journal of Intercultural Communication, International Journal of Communication, Information Technology & People, and the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. During his stay at IIMC in January 2016, Rajiv shared his research with the faculty and the students and pursued a project on social and ethical uses of technology. He also did a workshop on ‘Depicting the subaltern in contemporary Indian films: A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) perspective’.
Avishek Ray
Avishek Ray has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Trent University, Canada in 2015, and is working with the National Institute of Technology, Silchar from September 2015. His research is on the archaeology of vagabondage: the political implication of the social construct ‘vagabond’ and cultural representations thereof in the context of South Asia. He has edited an anthology on Religion & Popular Culture, and published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge), and the Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature.
During his stay at IIMC in March 2016, Avishek shared his research on vagabondage with the faculty and the students, and did a workshop on modernity's tryst with science and the interdisciplinary approach in research. He also pursued a personal research project on the binary understanding of fact/ value and the issues behind the determination of the value of ‘the object of study’ in different disciplines.