Arko Dasgupta

Graduate Student

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

• "From There to Here," Oral history project, Saturday Light Brigade Radio Productions & recorded at Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh, 2024
• '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