Carnegie Mellon University

Arko Dasgupta

Arko Dasgupta

Graduate Student

  • Porter Hall 225C

Education

  • MPhil in International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 2016
  • M.A. in Conflict Analysis & Peace Building, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 2013
  • B.A. in Economics, Political Science, Sociology, St Joseph's College, Bangalore, 2011

Interest Area(s)

Modern Indian History; the British Empire; Intellectual History; Colonialism; Race; Modernity

Publications

  • Review Essay, Lal, Vinay. Insurgency and the Artist: The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2022; Protest (Brill) 3, no.2 (2023): 291–295.
  • "Experiencing the Transimperial While Researching It: Three International Students' Journeys"; Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association with Vicky Shen and Eloy Romero Blanco (November 2023)
  • "Indian cinema's lens, and the classroom conversations it catalysed, put the term "Asian American" into sharper focus'; PublicSource (6 January)
  • "Makhan Singh: The Punjabi Radical Who Fought For Freedom in Not One But Two Countries," Scroll.in, January 2021
  • 'The Everydayness of Rural Bengal'; The Wire (January, 2019)

Awards and Fellowships

  • Graduate Small project Help (GuSH) Research Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, 2023
  • Departmental Grant for summer research, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, 2023
  • Junior/ Senior Research Fellow of the University Grants Commission in International and Area Studies, 2014-19
  • Kedia-Tayur Fellow (inaugural), 2023-2024
  • Prafulla C Mukerji Fellow, 2019 - ongoing

Research Assistance

Research Assistant on 'Crafting Democratic Futures,' a project funded by the A W Mellon Foundation aiming to document the African American experience with the ultimate goal of seeking reparative justice, 2021-2023

Presentations

  • Organised 'Conversations on Caste' with Ketaki Jaywant, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022
  • 'Rabindranath Tagore’s India: Notes on nativism, hospitality, and syncretism' at Department of Politics & Governance, Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, 2022
  • ‘Of Statues and Streets: Recovering the City’ at Urban History Association, Pittsburgh, October, 2023
  • “‘His Royal Vileness, King George’: Indian Anticolonialism in the United States” at Britain and the World, Duquesne University, April, 2023
  • ‘Interventionism to Indifference: the Epidemiological Experience of Indians and African Americans’ at The Pandemic Divide, Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University, October, 2022
  • "Real Talk: Racism and Colourism in South Asia and Among South Asian Americans," Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, March 2022
  • "A Brief Introduction to Modern India, 1885-1947," City Charter High School, Pittsburgh, PA, January 2022
  • “The Indian Abroad: Gandhi’s Years in South Africa,” Bridges and Borders: Navigating Problems and Possibilities in Language and Culture, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2021
  • “Why was Rabindranath Tagore Critical of Nationalism?” Rabindranath Tagore and his Creative Genius, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, April 2021
  • “Must Gandhi Fall? An Exploration of His Views on Race,” Subject Association of the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, November 2021

Podcast

'Casteism in India vs Racism in the US: a Comparative Approach' on Voices in Equity, a podcast hosted by the Samuel DuBois Cook Centre on Social Equity at Duke University, 2022

Courses Taught

  • African American History, Race, and the Fight for Reparations in National and Transnational Perspective
  • Indian Cinema since 1947: Seeing the Nation on Screen
  • Global Histories (Teaching Assistant)

 

Advisor

Nico Slate