1. Office and corresponding address - Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (Calcutta Research Group), GC 45 (F.F.), Sector 3, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106, India (Ph: 91-33-23370408 / fax: 033-23371523
E-mail address: paula@mcrg.ac.in / mcrg@mcrg.ac.in 

2. Residence – GD 273 , Sector 3, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106, India (ph: 2334 7222)

Educational Qualifications: 

(a) PhD: 1993, University of Cincinnati, USA.
(b) M.A.: 1989, University of Cincinnati, USA.
(c) B.A.:  1987, Presidency College, Calcutta.
Ph.D. dissertation title, "Neither Antagonist Nor Ally: Indo-US Relations from 1954 to 1966,”.

Current Positions: 

1.       Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta.

2.       Academic Committee Member, Women's Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta.

3.       Vice President, International Association for Study of Forced Migration.

4.       Team leader, Research on UNSCR 1325 in Kenya, Nepal and NE India, Govt. of Finland.

5.       Honorary Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. 

6.       Editorial Advisory Board Member, Forced Migration Review, Oxford University.

7.       International Editorial Board Member, Refugee, Oxford University.

8.   Editorial Board Member, Peace Studies Reader Series, Sage Publications.

9.       Editorial Board Member, Refugee Watch, CRG.

10. Coordinator of an Indo-Algerian-French initiative for research on Women’s Citizenship in the Postcolonial times under the auspices of University of Paris VII.

Previous Posts Held:   

1.   Head, DSSEAS, C.U.
2.   Board of Studies Member, Dept. of International Relations, Netaji Open University
3.   Coordinator Annual CRG Winter Course on Forced Migration.
4.       Wiscomp Scholar of Peace Fellow, 2000-2001, New Delhi. 
5.       Lecturer in History, Sarojini Naidu College for Women, University of Calcutta, From 1997. 
6.       Lecturer, Gokhale Memorial Girl's College, Calcutta, 1994-1995. 
7.       Instructor of Modern European Survey Courses, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1988-1991 
8.       President Prajak Kolkata, 2000-2004. 
9.       Director, National Commission For Women’s Project on Women and Displacement Due to River Erosion in Bengal. 

Research Experiences and Awards: 

            1.  Visiting Professor Bielefeld University, Germany, April 2012

      2.  Visiting Professor, Millikin University, USA, August-December 2011

      3.  Consultant MFA Finland, Development Aid and 1325, February 2011.

      4.  Advisory Board Member on India-China Program, New School, USA, 2010

      5.  Consultant, IDS Finland (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 2009-2010

            6.   Visiting Professor, Millikin University, USA, October-November 2010

7.   Visiting Professor, MSH, Paris, Dec 2009.
8.   SITRA – CIMO Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, October-November, 2008.
9.       Visiting Professor, University of Paris VII, September October 2005.
10.   Visiting Professor, International Program on Advanced Studies, MSH, Paris, Jan-April, 2004.
11.   Researcher, Non-Traditional Security and Gender, WISCOMP, New Delhi, 2003-2005.
12.   Researcher, Minority Status Report for India, ICES, Colombo, 2004. 
13.   Coordinator, CRG-UNHCR Project of Refugee Rehabilitation and Care in India, 2001-2002 
14.   Coordinator “Women’s Network for Peace in South Asia,” WISCOMP, 2000-2001. 
15.   Joint Coordinator: "Women in Conflict Situations in South Asia," 1998-1999, Under South Asian Forum for Human Rights, Nepal. 
16.   Visiting Fellow: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, October 1998. 
17.    Project Member: "Indo-Bangladesh Cross-Border Migration and Trade," Subregional Dialogue Co-sponsored, Maulana Abul Kalam
      Azad Institute for Asian Studies, Calcutta and Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Dhaka, 1997-1998. 
18.   Visiting Fellow: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and University Grant's Commission, New Delhi, June-August 1995. 
19.   Research Associate: "Women in Peace," Women's Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta, 1994-1997. 
20.   McGregor Travel Grant for Research: University of Cincinnati, 1992-93. 
21.   Advanced Taft Fellow: University of Cincinnati, USA, 1991- 93.  

Coordinator of Workshops: 

      1.   Coordinator ICSSR Research Project on Women in Indian Borderlands 2009-2011

            2.   Coordinator UNHCR Workshops on Protection Issues, December 2010

3.       Coordinator of a Women’s Program on Postcolonialism and Citizenship of Women composed of India, France and Algeria, 2005-
      2008. 
4.       Coordinator, CRG-Brookings Program on IDP Voices, 2005-2006. 
5.      Coordinator of a series of workshops on the Guiding Principles in South Asia (held in Kathmandu, Dhaka, Islamabad, Guwahati,
      Colombo and Bangkok) 1 June 2004- 31 March 2005. 
6.       Coordinator of “Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration,” Kolkata 1 October-15 December, 2004. 
7.       Coordinator of “Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration,” Kolkata 1 October-15 December, 2003 
8.       Coordinator of a dialogue on Autonomy and Peace, CRG-ICES, Colombo, Shillong, April 2003. 
9.       Coordinator, “Women’s Dialogue on Human Rights and Peace in Northeast,” Funded by Konrad Adaneur Stiftung, Germany, July,
      2002. 
10.   Coordinator, “Women’s Dialogue on Human Rights and Peace in South Asia,” (International Seminar) USIS, Kolkata, 9-10 April,
      2002. 
11.   Joint Convenor, “Alternatives to the Problems of Girl Child in South and Southeast Asia,” (International Seminar) DSSEAS,
      November 2001. 
12.   Coordinator, “Dialogue on Human Rights and Peace in East and Northeast,” KAS, October 2001. 
13.   Joint Convenor, “Cross Border migration and the Situation of Refugees in South and Southeast Asia, DSSEAS, Kolkata, March
      2001. 
14.   Coordinator, “Women’s Initiatives for Peace,” Sri Lanka, January 2001.  

Other International Seminars and Workshops Attended and Presented Papers in 2000-2008:        

      1.  “Women and Borders in NE India,” International Seminar on Democracy and Governance, Hong Kong University, February 2012-
     06-01

      2.   “Women, Border and Crime,” Seminar on Women and Borders, Monash University, Prato, Italy, April 2012  

      3.   “Women and Development Induced Displacement,” IASFM 13, Uganda, July 2011.

      4.   “Development Induced Displacement in India,” Sri Lanka, RCSS, February 2011

      5.   “Development Aid and Gender Empowerment,” UN Women and Embassy of Finland in New York, New York, February 2011.

      6.   “Women in Indo-Bangladesh Border,” York University, Canada, November 2010

            7.   “Circles of Insecurity,” New School, New York, October 2010.

8.   “Women and Prevention of Armed Conflict,” Sri Lanka, RCSS, March 2010.
9.   “Indian Women and UNSCR 1325”, GPPAC, Katmandu, April 2010.
10.  “AIDS as a Border Phenomena,” RIB, Dhaka, Nov. 2009.
11.  “Border and Humanitarian Interventions,” IASFM 12, Nicosia, July, 2009.
12   “Borders Of South Asia, “ CRG-UNHCR Workshop, December 2008.
13.  “Circles of Insecurity,” Institute of Development Studies, Helsinki University, Helsinki, November 2008.
14.  “Women in Peace Movements in India,” TAPRI, Tampere University, Tampere, November 2008.
15.    “Local Solidarities, Planetary Lessons - Lessons of Contemporary Women’s Autoonomous Movements In India,” Helsinki University,
       Helsinki, March 2008 
16.     “Negotiating With a Difference: Minorities in South Asia,” Tampere University, Tampere, March 2008.
17.   “IDP Women and development related Displacement in India,” January 2008, IAFSM, Cairo.
18.   “AIDS in Asia and Africa” Millikin University, Decature, USA, October 2007. 
19.   “Women IDPs in South Asia,” American University Cairo, March 2007.
20.     Women and Peace in South Asia, University of Paris VII, March 2007. 
21.   “Women in War and Peace in South Asia,” CEDREF, Paris, October 2005. 
22.   “New Paradigms of Conflicts in South Asia,” University of Paris VII, October 2005. 
23.   “Women, War and Displacement in South Asia,” GPPAC Meeting, United Nations, New York, July 2005. 
24.   “Constitution, Law and Constitutionalism,” Maison Des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) Paris, February 2005. 
25.   “Women and Displacement,” College, de Philosophy, Paris, 2005 
26.   “Gender, Media and Human Rights,” WACC London, February 2005. 
27.    National Security and Conflict in Northeast India,” MSH and CERI, Paris, March 2004. 
28.   “Women and Forced Displacement in South Asia,” WACC London, February 2004. 
29.   “Status of Minorities in India,” ICES. Colombo, September 2004. 
30.   “Women victims of Forced Migration in South Asia,” Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., September 2003. 
31.   “Internally Displaced Women in South Asia,” Colombo, March 2003. 
32.   “Women and Leadership in Conflict Situations in Northeast India,” South Asia Partnership, Ottawa, Canada, November 2002. 
33.   “International Seminar on Women, Peace Building and Constitution Making,” International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, April
       2002. 
34.   “Current Issues in South and Southeast Asia,” DSSEAS, Calcutta University, March 2002. 
35.   “Development Constraints in Nagaland,” ICSSR-NERC, Kohima, March 2002.
36.   “Identities in Indian History and Politics,” Department of History, Calcutta University, February 2002. 
37.   “Dialogue on Geopolitics of Peace,” Punjab University and Tampere University, Chandigarh, February 2002. 
38.   “Women’s Dialogue for Peace in South Asia,” National Peace Council and WISCOMP, Colombo, January 2001. 
39.   “Conflict Resolution: Trends and Prospects,” WISCOMP, New Delhi, October 2001. 
40.   “Possibilities For Peace in Assam,” ICSSR-NERC, Gwahati, October 2001. 
41.   “Rehumanizing the Other: A Conflict Transformation Workshop,” WISCOMP, June 2001. 
42.   “Globalization and Women’s Identity,” School of Women’s Studies, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, March 2001. 
43.   “International Women’s Dialogue on Peace,” Bruno Kriesky Forum, Vienna, October 2000. 
44.   “Borders and Boundaries,” Syracuse University, USA, October 2000. 
45.   “Challenges to Democracy,” Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, May 2000.

Publications:  

1.    Women in Borderlands (Sage, New Delhi, 2011) co-editor Anasuya Basu Raychowdhury
2.    UNSCR 1325: Women, Peace, and Security (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Finland, 2010.)
2.    Borders, Histories and Existences: Gender and Beyond (Sage, New Delhi, 2010).
3.    Migration and Circles of Insecurities (Rupa, New Delhi, 2010) co-author Ranabir Samaddar.
4.    Marginalities and Justice (Sage, New Delhi, 2009) Co-editor Sanjay Chaturvedi.
5.       Women and Peace Politics  (Sage, New Delhi, 2008)
6.       Autonomy: Beyond Kant and Hermeneutics (Anthem, New Delhi, 2007) Co-editor Samir Das
7.       Internal Displacement in South Asia (Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005). Co-editors Sabyasachi Basu Raychoudhury and Samir
      Das. 
8.       When Ambitions Clash: Indo-US Relations 1947-1974 (South Asian Publishers, New Delhi, 2003). 
9.       Girls in the Twilight Zone: South and Southeast Asian Scenario (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 2003). Co-editor Lipi Ghosh. 
10.   Co-authored a book on Women in Politics and Society in France, 1945-1995, Eureka Publishers (Calcutta, 1997). With Paramita Das
      and Anuradha Mukherjee

Papers Published:   

      1.  “Report on Development Induced Displacement in India,” in Nadeeka Withana ed. Ending the Displacement Cycle: Finding
      Durable Solutions through Return and Resettlement (RCSS, Colombo, 2011).

            2.   “IDP Protection at the National Level: Experience from South Asia,” Ranjana Ray ed. Development Displacement and
                   Marginalisation (The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2011).

3.   “Mapping Minority Rights and Protection in India,” in Samir Das ed. Minorities in South Asia and in Europe  (Samya, Kolkata, 2010).
4.   “Negotiating Differences,” Lipi Ghosh ed., (Routledge, New Delhi, 2009).
5.   “Gendered Face of Extraordinary Powers in North-East India,” Peace Studies Reader IV (Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2009).
6.   “The Acts and Facts of Women’s Autonomy in India,” in Gilles Tarabout and Ranabir Samaddar eds, Conflict, Power and the
       Landscape of Constitutionalism (Routledge, New Delhi, 2008) pp.
7.    “Communities, Gender and the Border: A Legal Narrative on India’s North East, in Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir Singh eds.,
       Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India (Sage, New Delhi, 2008) pp.
8.    “Mapping Minority Rights and Protection in India,” Policies and Practices 14 (Kolkata, 2007).
9.       “Forced Migration, Women and the Nation State in South Asia,” Prachya 2 (Kolkata, 2007).
10.     “Trafficking and Statelessness of Women in South Asia,” Refugee Watch (Kolkata, 2006)
11.    “Women’s Autonomy: Beyond Rights and Representations,” in Ranabir Samaddar ed. Politics of Autonomy (Sage, New Delhi, 2005)
       pp.49-70. 
12.    “Femme en Inde: Legislation et realites” in Diogene 212, pp. 107-127. 
13.   “Assamese Women: Victims or Actors?” in  Imdad Hussain ed., The Guwahati Declaration and the Road to Peace in Assam
       (Akansha, New Delhi, 2005). 
14.     “Borders as Unsettled Markers,” Peace Studies Reader, Vol. I  (Sage Publications, 2004). 
15.    “Peacekeeping and Conflict Management: South Asia,” and “Peace Movements: South Asia,” Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic
        Cultures Vol. 2 (Brill Publications, Netherlands, 2005) 
16.     “Women’s Interventions for Peace in Northeast,” O.P. Mishra eds., Forced Migration in the South Asian Region (Manak, 2004) 
17.    “Refugee Women and Fundamental Inadequacies in International Responses in South Asia,” Joshva Raja, ed., Refugees and their
       Right to Communicate (WACC, 2003). 
18.   “Aliens in the Colonial World,” Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India 1947-2000 (Sage Publications, New
       Delhi, 2003). 
19.   “Frontiers and Borders: Spaces of Sharing, Spaces of Conflict,” Ranabir Samaddar ed. Space, Territory and the State: New
       Readings in International Politics (Orient Longman, 2002). 
20.   “Between Two Armed Patriarchies: Women in Assam and Nagaland,” Rita Manchanda ed. Beyond Victimhood to Agency: Women
       War and Peace in South Asia (Sage Publications, 2001). 
21.   “The Line of Control in Kashmir,” Helmut Reifeld, Ranabir Samaddar eds. Peace As Process (Manohar, 2001).
22.   "Peace Initiatives of Naga Women," Canadian Women's Studies, Vol 19, Winter 2000. 
23.   "Indo-Bangladesh Cross-Border Migration and Trade," Economic and Political Weekly, September 4, 1999. Co-authored with Sanjoy
       Hazarika, Monirul Hussain and Ranabir Samaddar. 
24.   "The Sino-Indian Border," International Studies, 35, No. 2 (December 1998).
25.   "Towards a Shared Vision: The Border Between India, Myanmar and Bangladesh," The Journal of North-Eastern Council for Social
       Science Research, 22, No. 2 (October 1998). Co-authored with Lipi Ghosh. 
26.   “Feminist Perspective in International Relations: A Review Article" International Studies 33, No. 2 (1996). 
27.   "John F. Kennedy and the Goan Crisis," International Studies 33, No. 3 (1997).  
 

Reports Published:            

1.       Women in Forced Migration (CRG 2006)
2.       Report on the Status of Minorities in India (ICES, Colombo, 2005) 
3.       Debates on Women’s Autonomy in India (CRG 2005) 
4.       Across the Experiences: Naga Women in Sri Lanka (WISCOMP, New Delhi 2003) 
5.       Second Civil Society Dialogue on Human Rights and Peace (CRG 2002) 
6.       First Civil Society Dialogue on Human Rights and Peace (CRG 2001)

Forthcoming Publications: