Dr. Sreeradha Datta before joining Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P Jindal Global University was Senior Fellow and heading the Neighbourhood Studies Centre of the Vivekananda International Foundation. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow with Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Prior to that she was director, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata for six years and held fellowships with Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, among other institutions. She has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an MPhil degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata where she had also completed her graduation and post-graduation courses too. She has also published over 150 articles in journals, edited volumes, newspapers and academic websites.
Her research interests include India’s neighbourhood policies, regionalism and cross-border issues. Amongst other distinctions, she has been recipient of international fellowships including at German Institute of Global Affairs, Distinguished Indian Scholar Series University of Taiwan, International Leadership Visitors Programme, at USA, awarded the Shelton Kodikara Award for South Asian Strategic Studies, Distinguished Indian Scholar Series University of Taiwan, and Visiting Fellow at Jadavpur University besides other fellowships
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Dr. Soham Das is an Assistant Professor of Political Methodology and Comparative Politics at the Jindal School of International Affairs. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral research scientist at The University of Texas at Dallas engaging in research on peacebuilding and collaborating in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded Artificial Intelligence – Machine Learning (AI–ML) project. He holds a PhD in Political Science with Research Methods concentration and a Masters degree in Political Science from The University of Texas (Dallas), USA. He has been an instructor of civil conflict and ethnic politics in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, UT Dallas.Dr. Das’ research interests span in the fields of comparative politics, international relations, public policy, electoral politics, and social-economic inequalities. His current projects are centered around transmigration and workplace culture in India, and the causal analysis of electoral behavior and political violence in Germany. Dr. Das’ doctoral research examined the aspects of ethnic conflict not only through the lens of the minorities but studied the apprehension and threat perspective of the ethnic majorities as well. A chapter of this work was published in the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol 6, Issue 3, 2019. He uses mixed methods approaches in his research that combine statistical analysis using large demographic and secondary datasets with process tracing and comparative case study analyses. Currently at JSIA, he teaches courses on Social Science Research Methods (quantitative and qualitative) and Peace and Conflict Studies at undergraduate and graduate levels.
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