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Name Dr. DEBJANI DAS Designation Assistant Professor Department Name HISTORY Office Phone No +91 3222 298-300 / Centrex Extn. 300 Email ID debjani@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in Fax - Mobile No 9830672700 Personal Website Address Dept of History, Vidyasagar University, 721102

Educational Qualification Degree Name Institute Year of passing/awarded PH.D Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2012 M.Phil. Jadavpur University, Kolkata 2005 MA Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2002 Title of the Ph. D. Thesis Houses of Madness: "Insane"Women and Asylums in Nineteenth Century Bengal

Career Profile / Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, Department of History, Vidyasagar University since 30 April 2012

Specialization/Research Area Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century History of Medicine in India Gender History History of Psychiatry; History of Mental Health History of Pharmacy in India

Course/ Subject Taught History of Medicine in Colonial India (M.A History Department) Socio Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India (M.A History Department) Women in Colonial India (M.A History Department) An Introduction to Women’s History (M.Phil & PhD History Department) Tribal History in Colonial India: A Historiographical Survey (M.Phil. & PhD History) Research Methodology in History (M.Phil & PhD History Department) Feminism: Theories and Debates (Women's Center) Women in Indian History (Women's Center)

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Year Published by Gender and Insanity: Situating Asylums in Nineteenth Century Bengal Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India, Mark Harrison and Biswamoy Pati eds. 2018 Oxon: Routledge National Publication Title Published in Year Published by Contributed two Chapters in the District Gazetteer of Purba Medinipur on ‘History’ and ‘Medical and Public Health Services’ District Gazetteer of Purba Medinipur (Forthcoming) 2019 Government of West Bengal Bhumika Medinipur: Nana Chokhe edited Ajay Kumar Mandal 2015 Kabitika, Page Nos. 11-17, January 2015 Book review: Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century: An Archival Exploration Journal of History, Volume III 2015 Department of History, Vidyasagar University Is Insanity a Female Malady? Lunatic Women in the Asylums of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century Social Scientist, Volume 39, Numbers 5-6, pp 23 - 47, May - June 2011 Social Scientist Other Publication Books Published Title of the Book Published by Year Role Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth Century India New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2015 Author

Project Work Completed Project Works Project title Worked as Funding Agency Amount in Rs. Duration in years Period Year to Year Status Medical Health and Healing Practices among the Adivasis of Medinipur Principal Coordinator UGC Innovative Project 274000 2 year 2015 2017 Completed Audio - Visual Documentation, Translation and Analysis of the Santali Folk Narratives & Performances in Select Districts of West Bengal, Jharkhand & Odisha Joint Coordinator with the Department of Santhali ICSSR 3000000 2 year 2014 2016 Completed

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year ‘Methods in Asylum History and History of Mental Hospitals in 19th Century Bengal’ Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, Bangalore NIMHANS, BANGALORE 2016 Book discussion on Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth Century India Wellcome Trust Documentation Centre on History of Medicine in collaboration with the Department of History, Calcutta University DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY 2016 ‘Space, Architecture and ‘Cure’: Military Hospitals in Nineteenth Century India’ Department of History, Jadavpur University DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 2014 ‘Moral Treatment and Architecture: Asylums of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century’ Welcome Trust Documentation Centre on History of Medicine in collaboration with the Department of History, Calcutta University DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY 2014 ‘Within a Boundary of Their Own: The Lunatic Hospitals of Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century’ Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Eastern India on Archaeology of Greater Calcutta NANDAN, KOLKATA 2014 Discussant at a workshop on Social History of Medicine Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti TEEN MURTI, NEW DELHI 2013 ‘Insane Women in the Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth Century’ Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti TEEN MURTI, NEW DELHI 2011

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop Year Role Held at and Organiser “Labour of the ‘Insane’: Therapy or Affliction?” 2014 PAPER PRESENTER AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HISTORY OF MEDICINE, CHICAGO ‘From Moral Treatment to Psychological Therapies: Psychotherapeutics from the York Retreat to the Present Day’ 2013 PAPER PRESENTER Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, University College London, London Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop Year Role in the Event Funding Agency Issues in Environmental History in India: Pre colonial and Colonial Times 2014 Joint Co ordinator ICHR State, Society, and, Economy in Pre colonial and Colonial India 2013 Joint Co ordinator State University Network, Kolkata and UGC Unassigned Grant Historicising the Peripheries: Ethnicity, Science, Gender, and Environment 2013 Joint Co ordinator UGC Unassigned Grant

Awards Award Name Awarded By Year Fulbright Nehru Award Fulbright 2017 Charles Wallace India Trust Award Charles Wallace India Trust 2010

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