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Professor Lipi Ghosh CV

Director of the Centre for South & S.E Asian Studies,
University of Calcutta, India. http://www.caluniv.ac.in/

During the period November 2010–June 2011 Visiting ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) Chair Professor at Lund University, Sweden. She is hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University. Her workplace is at the university’s Centre for Gender Studies, http://www.genus.lu.se/o.o.i.s/4737.

Contact information:
Professor Lipi Ghosh
Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University
Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Visiting address: Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14, House M, Lund

E-mail: <lipighosh@gmail.com>
Telephone: +46 46 373732 (res)

Lipi Ghosh is a M.A. and Ph.D in history from the University of Calcutta, India. Currently she is the Professor and Director of the Centre for South & S.E Asian Studies, University of Calcutta and she is the former Head of the Dept of South & S.E Asian Studies.  She has been administrating the Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies, a Kolkata based international forum for scholars of Asian & Pacific research interest.

Her major areas of research interest are ethnicity, minority & cultural studies in context of South & Southeast Asia. Her special interest is about history of inter-Asian connections.
Her first book was Burma: Myth of French Intrigue ( Naya Udyog, Kolkata, 1994) .
Other works are: – Prostitution in Thailand: Myth and Reality ( Munshiram Manoharlal Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2002), – Religious Minorities in South Asia: Selected Essays on Post- Colonial Situation (Manak Publications Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, co-edited, 2002), – Ethnicity, Nations, Minorities: The South Asian Scenario, (Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd , New Delhi, co-edited, 2003), – Indian Diaspora in the Asian & Pacific Regions (Rawat Publications, New Delhi, 2004), – Women Across Asia: Issues of Identity ( Gyan Publishers, New Delhi, 2005), Political Governance and Minority Rights: South & Southeast Asian Scenario (Routledge, New Delhi, London, 2009), and – Connectivity and Beyond : Indo-Thai Relations Through Ages (Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2009).

She has also published many academic articles in several reputed national & international journals. Currently she is working on an Indian University Grants Commission (UGC) sponsored collaborative major projects named India’s Past Cultural Fabrics in Southeast Asia: A Study of Dvaravati Civilization of Ancient Siam.
She also takes interest in the subject of India-Southeast Asia Relations in the post colonial era. Her two important ongoing project works in the related field are Indo-Thai Relations in Context of Changing Globalized World, and The  Inter-oceanic Trade & Security Relations of  South & S.E Asia in Indian Ocean Region in the last millennium.

Professor Ghosh has previously been a Visiting Associate to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1997) Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor to Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (1997, 1998) Visiting Faculty to the School of Oriental and African Studies, London under British Academy Award (1999) and Ford Asia Fellow and Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (2000). She has also been awarded the Visiting Scholarship to SEAP. Cornell University, USA.  She was also a Charles Wallace Visiting Scholar to SOAS in 2004 , Visiting Scholar to the Centre for Women Studies & Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, Canada., 2005, Visiting Professor to Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 2006, 2008 and Visiting Faculty to the Nalanda Srivijya Centre, Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore, 2010.

She has participated to several national & international seminars/workshops in different countries of Asia like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

She knows French, English, Elementary German, Thai  and Assamese languages.