Aditi Mukherjee

Assistant Professor

Department of History

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Visakhapatnam

Education

Ph. D.

amukherj@gitam.edu

Social Media

Scopus

ORCiD

Aditi Mukherjee has completed her Ph.D. from the Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2021. Her PhD was supported by Erasmus Mundus scholarship. She has completed a post doctoral fellowship from the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2022. She was a recipient of the Tata Trusts-1947 Partition Archive Research Grant, 2021. Her research interests include Displacement, Citizenship, Caste and Ecology.

Research Publications

Mukherjee, A. (2020). “Rethinking Protracted Displacements: Insights from a Namasudra Refugee Camp Site in Suburban Calcutta,” Contemporary South Asia 28, No. 1, 58-73 (Scopus Indexed)
Lorea, C.E., A. Mukherjee, D. Roy, (2023). “A Dalit Religion Online: Clashing Sensoryscapes and Remote Ethnographies behind the Screen,” Dialectical Anthropology, Special Issue: Limits of Online Visibility (Scopus Indexed)
Mukherjee, A. (2021). “Displacement, Rehabilitation and Vernacular Press Discourse: Perspective from Calcutta Based Newspapers,” in The 1947 Partition in the East: Trends and Trajectories, ed. Subhasri Ghosh (Routledge India: 2021), 153-171.
Mukherjee, A. (2025). “Dalit Migrant Reminiscences from Bengal,” in Narratives of Loss and Longing: Literary Developments in Postcolonial South Asia, eds. Nukhba Taj Langah and Roshni Sengupta (London and New York, Routledge: 2025), 125-142.

Ongoing Research Projects

‘Exploring Remote Ecologies: Gender, Conservation and Livelihood in Assam’, (September 2023-August 2024,) supported by GITAM Research Seed Grant.

Expertise

History of Migration and Citizenship, Environmental History, Caste, Modern Indian History