Guest Faculties 2011.
Deepak Kumar Behera, CISCA board member, is professor and the
Head of the Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University, India.
He obtained his Master’s degree (Gold Medalist) and Ph.D. from Sambalpur
University, India. Professor
Behera was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at
California State University at Long Beach during the Fall semester 2007.
He was also a Visiting Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology, University
of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (2001, 2003), Dept. of Anthro-
pology, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa (2001),
Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004)
and
Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris, CNRS-EHESS, Toulouse (2006).
He has more than 80 research publications in reputed journals and edited
volumes. Most of his publications are in the fields of children and childhood
and tribal studies.
Professor Behera has published seven volumes of
Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies (Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi)
jointly with Professor Georg
Pfeffer of Institute of Ethnology, Free University
of Berlin, Germany. He has successfully completed more than a dozen
research projects funded by UGC, ICSSR, Ministry of Welfare, National Literacy Mission Authorities, Winrock International, Shastri Foundation, WHO, etc.
Besides being a member of several boards, he is also the Director-in-Charge
of the new UGC Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy
and Coordinator, MSW programme under the Sambalpur University. Professor
Behera is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal -
Sociological Analysis (North Carolina, USA), Boyhood Studies (New York, USA),
Acta Academia
(South Africa), and Practicing Anthropology (USA). Thirteen
scholars have already
received Ph.D. degree working under the supervision
of Professor Behera.
Dr. Behera visited Aarhus in April 2011 as CISCA's third guest faculty.
He was also
in Aarhus in 2010, when he attended the workshop on Social In-
and Exclusion in
Contemporary India and beyond.
Chandermohan Singh Rawat is an Indian teacher in the Department
of Hindi of
Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi. He was born in Uttarakhand,
the northern state of India that is in the foothills of Himalaya.
Dr. Rawat did all his studies in Delhi and Delhi University - i.e., B.A.,
M.A.(Hindi), M.Phil. and Ph.D. His main research area is Medieval
Hindi
poetry (1650-1950) in "Brijbhasha" and history of poetics.
Dr. Rawat has got two books published in India, namely "Padmakar
ke Jagatvinod mein Ras-nirupan" & "Maharaja Jaswantsingh aur unak
Sahitya". He has been teaching at University Graduate level since
1998 onwards.
C.M.S. Rawat has been a guest faculty at Aarhus University once
before, as he was also visiting in the spring of 2010.
Nirmal Kumar is an Associate Professor of History at
Sri Venkateshwara College, New Delhi - one of CISCA's partner
institutions. Also, Professor Kumar is a board member of the
Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus, CISCA. He lives in Delhi
with his wife and two children.
At Sri Venkateshwara College, he teaches 7th-18th century History
of India.
Nirmal Kimar has been working on 18th century Rajasthan and also
on Hindi films. He has edited a book called "Filming the Line of Control"
for Routledge in 2008.
Two books of his are under publication: One is "Essays in History of
Early Modern India" and another is "Medieval Delhi: A Reader".
He is also the general Editor of a series on "Historians of Medieval India".
Professor Kumar has been to Aarhus once before, as he attended the
CISCA workshop "Social In- and Exclusion in contemporary India and
beyond" on the 23rd-24th of June 2010.
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