Faculty

Debdatta Chowdhury

Assistant Professor in Gender Studies

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R–1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata – 700 094, India

Tel : +91 (0)33 2462 7252 / 5794 / 5795 / 2436 8313 / 7794 / 95 / 97
Room Extn. : 312 Fax : +91 (0)33 2462 6183
Email : debdatta@cssscal.org

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Debdatta Chowdhury did her Bachelor of Arts in History from Presidency College, Kolkata in 2005 and completed her Master of Arts in South and Southeast Asian Studies from University of Calcutta in 2007. Thereafter, she completed her PhD from the University of Westminster London in 2014. Her thesis was published by Routledge in 2018, titled, ‘Identity and Experience at the India-Bangladesh Border: A Crisis of Belonging’. Before joining CSSSC, she was associated as a Guest Faculty in Area Studies and History in University of Calcutta and Diamond Harbour Women’s University respectively. Her research interests include identity formations at the crossroads of law and praxis. Her areas of study/research/supervision include gender and legal jurisprudence, border/partition, migration studies.