Junior Fellow Akumjung Pongen is currently pursuing his postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He studies and researches themes of metaphysics and epistemology as they concern topics in the philosophy of language and […]
Dr Bisakha Goswami is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, where she has taught since 2012, and Founder Secretary of Muktabodha, a centre for Indological studies and research. Her main research interests are the historical musicology of South Asia as reflected in Sanskrit treatises, Tagore’s approach to music education, and the
Wayne, an environmental science graduate, is experienced in the creation of mass participation projects involving partnerships between academic, commercial and voluntary organisations. He also has a Master of Philosophy, obtained through research into education programme evaluation. Using a bespoke method to improve participation developed over the last 10 years, Wayne has provided logistics and support
Kadiguang Panmei is a researcher and musician studying the culture of northeast India and its people through various lenses, including culinary anthropology, migration, geopolitics, and the arts. During the academic year 2022-2023, he pursued his research as a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, in the Department of Ethnomusicology.He has varied experiences
Since 1999, I have been engaged in teaching and research in the Department of History & Archaeology, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus with an administrative component where I was the former Head of Department (2018-2021).Under the German Research Foundation, I was also Mercator Fellow at the Institute of Pre-&-Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Germany (Aug-Oct, 2022). Over
A. Sentiyula has a PhD in English from Nagaland University. She is currently the Head of Department of English at Dimapur Government College, Nagaland. Her area of interest includes Naga Writings in English, Writings from the Northeast of India, and Indigenous Studies. She has co-authored a book titled Studies in Contemporary Naga Writings. Her creative nonfiction writing
Holding an MSc in Development Management from the Open University, Nigel worked for over 8 years on projects in Romania, mostly focused on improving conditions for the Roma including institution building, policy development, and research. This spell in Eastern Europe followed time in the military working with Gurkha soldiers which took him to Nepal, Belize,
Les Joynes is a contemporary artist, curator, critic and Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi examining art and performative cultures in South Asia. He teaches courses in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Experimental Practices and cultural entrepreneurship at Renmin University and Peking University and is Visiting
Suryasikha Pathak is a faculty in the Centre for Tribal Studies, Assam University, Diphu Campus, Karbi Anglong. She had previously worked in the Department of History, Assam University, Silchar Campus. She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow in SUNY Oswego and also a Schlesinger Fellow at Radcliffe College, Harvard University. She is currently working on her
Bertrand Lefebvre holds a PhD in geography (University of Rouen, 2011). From 2004 to 2009 he was affiliated with CSH-Delhi (UMIFRE 20, MEAE-CNRS) as a doctoral fellow. From 2012 to 2015 he was a post-doctoral fellow with the University of Rouen (IDEES UMR 6266 CNRS) while being posted with the Faculty of Tropical Medicine (Mahidol
