Fellows

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

Lester is an independent researcher and entrepreneur residing in Maine, United States whose current studies are focused on underrepresented pathogens and historical approaches to combating their resulting diseases. His work centers on targeting immunodeficiencies to prevent future large-scale infections in vulnerable populations, and in leveraging shared knowledge of botanical and organic compounds toward achieving this

Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University. His research is driven by interests in political ecology, agrarian change, climate change, and food systems. Roderick’s PhD project in particular seeks to examine the changing livelihood strategies among the upland Konyak Nagas in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands. Email- rdrck.wjnm@gmail.com

Rhelo Kenye is a Guest Faculty at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. He has submitted his PhD thesis at the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His thesis titled “Folk Blues, Howey,and Pop: The Cultural Practice of Music in Contemporary Naga Society”, examined how music as a creative