Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DETAILS

Professor Dr Anindita Dasgupta

  • Head of School - School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

  • School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
    Faculty of Social Sciences & Leisure Management
  •   anindita.dasgupta@taylors.edu.my

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
(Role),(Level),(Duration)
  • Head of School , Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, 25/11/2011 to 24/11/2017
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
(Qualification),(Institution)
  • PhD in Political Science, UNIVERSITY OF GAUNATI, India
  • Masters of Arts in History, UNIVERSITY OF GAUHATI, India
  • Bachelor of Arts in History, UNIVERSITY OF GAUHATI, India
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
(Area)
  • Cultural History (Culture, multiculturalism, culture connectivities)
  • Ethnography (Memory and identity of food, diaspora and conflicts)
PUBLICATIONS
(Title of publication in APA style)
Book
2014
  • Dasgupta, A. (2014) Remembering Sylhet: Hindu and Muslim Voices from a Forgotten Story of India’s 1947 Partition. SEPHIS, The Netherlands and Manohar Publications, India.
Book Chapter
2024
  • Dasgupta, A., Subba, T.B. (2024). Society, Culture, and Tribal Development in Northeast India. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakraborty, G., Chakraborty, A.S. (eds) Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability. Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1436-0_3
2022
  • Dasgupta, Anindita. 2022. The Sylhet Referendum. In Jelle J.P. Wouters and Tanka B. Subba (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Northeast India. Routledge.
2021
  • Mognard, E., & Dasgupta. A. ( 2021). Speak like Doraemon :Foodways during Covid-19 lockdown in Malaysia. In I. Ahmed ( Ed.) Covid-19: the otherside of living through the pandemic ( pp. 183-194) Bangladesh: Pathak Sambesh.
  • Dasgupta, A, Zariri, H, Bricas N & Soula, A ( Forthcoming 2021) Réinvestir la cuisine et le “fait-maison” ? ou “Retourne à ta cuisine !”Nicolas Bricas, Damien Conaré, Marie Walser ( Eds) , "Une écologie de l'alimentation". Éditions Quaé. Paris
2020
  • Dasgupta, A., Selvadurai, S. & Ponniah, L. S., (2020). Chez soi et ailleurs, Alimentation, identite et urbanisation en Malaysie. In Soula, A., Yount-Andre,C.,Lepiller, O., & Bricas, N ( Eds.) Manger en ville : Regards socio-anthropologiques d' Afrique latine et d' Asia. Paris, France: Quae
  • Dasgupta, A, Selvadurai, S. & Ponniah, L. S. ( 2020) Home and away" Narratives of food and identity in the context of modernisation in Malaysia. In A. Soula, C. Yount-Andre, Lepiller, O & Bricas, N ( Eds.), Eating in the city : Socio-Anthrpological perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia. (pp.89-96), Quae. DOI
2018
  • Dasgupta, A., & Singh S. N.,( 2018) In search of lost time: Nostalgia for the Sylheti Homeland in Choudhury, S and Gill, P (Eds.) Anthology on Insider-Outsider discourse in Northeast India
Article in Journals
2024
  • Ng, V., Liang, L.M., Mari, T., Srirangam, S. & Dasgupta, A. (2024). A CASE STUDY ON THE SPATIAL PRACTICES OF CONSTRUCTION SITE WORKERS' QUARTERS IN KLANG VALLEY, MALAYSIA. In Planning Malaysia Journal. [SCOPUS-indexed]
  • Ng, V., Liang, L.M., Srirangam, S., TamilSalvi, M. & Dasgupta, A. (2024). Spatial usage and socio-spatial qualities of migrant workers’ accommodation: A case study on construction site living quarters in Klang Valley. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, pp. 69-80. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2023
  • Mognard, E., Naidoo, K., Laporte, C., Tibère, L., Alem, Y., Khusun, H., Februhartanty, J., Niiyama, Y., Ueda, H., Dasgupta, A., Dupuy, A., Rochedy, A., Yuen, J. L., Ismail, M. N., Nair, P. K., Ragavan, N. A., & Poulain, J. P. (2023). “Eating Out”, spatiality, temporality and sociality. A database for China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and France. Frontiers in Nutrition, 10, 1066737. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1066737 (ISI-Indexed)
     
  • Poulain, J. P., Mognard, E., Kong, J., Yuen, J. L., Tibère, L., Laporte, C., Yang, F. M., Dasgupta, A., Nair, P. K., Ragavan, N., A & Noor, I, M. (2023). Much More Than Food: The Malaysian Breakfast, a Socio-Cultural Perspective. Sustainability. 15(3), 2815. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032815 URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/3/2815 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
     
  • Liang, L. M., Ng, V., Srirangam, S., Mari T.S., & Dasgupta, A. (2023). Built Environment Well-being in Migrant Worker's Accommodation - A Systematic Literature Review and Theoretical Framework. In Journal of Engineering Science and Technology. Special Issue on STAAUH, November (2022) 60 - 71. (SCOPUS-Indexed)
  • Ng, V., Liang, L.M., Srirangam, S., TamilSalvi, M. & Dasgupta, A. (2023). SPATIAL-SOCIAL NARRATIVES: A CASE OF MIGRANT TEMPORARY HOUSING. In Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Special Issue on STAAUH, November (2022) 144 - 155 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2022
  • Mognard, E, & Dasgupta, A. (2022). Mothers can try new recipes for their families” : COVID-19 Lockdown in Malaysia, A Lens on the Negotiation of the Prescribed Division of Domestic Food- Related Work. Anthropology of Food. ( Special issue on Gender and Foodways under the urban life in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
  • Poulain, J. P., Tibère, L., Mognard, E., Laporte, C., Fournier, T., Noor, I. M., Dasgupta, A., Alem, Y., Naidoo, K., Dupuy, A., Rochedy, A., Nair, P. K. & Ragavan, N. A. (2022). The Malaysian Food Barometer Open Database: An Invitation to Study the Modernization of Malaysian Food Patterns and Its Economic and Health Consequences. Frontiers in Nutrition. 8. 1180. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.800317 (ISI-Indexed)
     
2018
  • Saxena, Vandana and Anindita Dasgupta. ‘Not A Breach, but an Expansion’: Diasporic Communities in Twenty First Century’ Millennial Asia. 2018 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
     
  • Dasgupta, A., & Singh,N. ( 2018) In Search of lost Time: Nostalgia for the Sylheti Homeland in Gill, P & Samrat ( ed.) Insider, Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North East India.
2017
  • Saxena, V & Dasgupta, A. (2017) “If the shoe fits”: Culture in Malaysian Organizations.Identity, Culture & Politics: An Afro-Asian Dialogue, 17(1) pp. 1–23.
  • Saxena, Vandana; Dasgupta, Anindita(2017). Local Roots, Global aspirations: Impact of culture on work environment and organizational culture in Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises in the Information Technology Sector. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA: AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION REGIONAL CONFERENCE (I-COME'16), 33, pp. (ISI-Indexed)
     
2016
  • Selvadurai S., Dasgupta A. (2016). Culturally diverse teams and social interaction influence on team effectiveness in small and medium enterprises in the Ict sector in Malaysia. Millennial Asia, 7(1), pp.42-62 (ISI-Indexed)
2015
  • Dasgupta, A., Singh, N. ( 2015)Building Nostalgia Communities: South Asian Migrant Workers in Malaysia, Economic and Political Weekly, 50(24) (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2011
  • Dasgupta, A. (2011) Review of Looking East to Look at West: Lee Kuan Yew’s Mission India by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. India Quarterly, 67(4) pp. 573-93. Indian Council of World Affairs, Sage Publications (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2008
  • Dasgupta, A. (2008) ‘Remembering Sylhet: A Forgotten Story of India’s 1947 Partition’ Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.43, no. 31 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2004
  • Dasgupta, A. (2004) ‘Civilians and Localization of Conflict in Assam’, Economic and Political Weekly, 39, no. 40 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
2001
  • Dasgupta, A. (2001) “Denial and Resistance: Sylheti Partition ‘Refugees’ in Assam’ Contemporary South Asia, 10(3) pp.343-360 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
  • Dasgupta, A. (2001) “Small Arms Proliferation in India’s North East: A Case Study of Assam “Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 36, No.1 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
  • Dasgupta, A. (2001) Review of Brave Men of the Hills: Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932, Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 12 Issue 3, pp.425-426 (SCOPUS-Indexed)
Monograph
2002
  • Dasgupta, A. (2002). ) ‘Civilians and Localization of Conflict in India’, Occasional Paper Series, Strategic Studies and International Relations Program, School of History, Politics and Strategy, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Digital Media
2021
  • Dasgupta, A ( 28 Feb, 2021) Firing up the young ones. The Star. Malaysia
RESEARCH PROJECT
(Project title),(Role),(Duration),(Level)
  • A socio-spatial framework for sustainable living environment of temporary urban migrant settlements in Malaysia , Co-researcher, 2021 to 2025 (National)
  • Asian Food Barometer, Co-researcher, 2017 to 2022 (Taylor's University)
  • The Cultural Fit : The Role of Culture in Work Environments in Malaysian SMEs, Co-researcher, 2017 to 2018 (Taylor's University)
  • The Cultural Fit: Role of culture in work environment of Malaysian SMEs, Co-researcher, 2017 to 2018 (Taylor's University)
  • Asian Food Barometer, Co-researcher, 2017 to 2022 (Taylor's University)
  • Impact of cross-cultural diversity on work performance in Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises dealing in Information and Communication Technology, Project Leader, 2014 to 2016 (National)
EVALUATION ACTIVITIES
(Activity),(Duration),(Category)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of History and Culture, Department of History, Gauhati University, 2020 to 2025
  • First guest-editor for a special issue of Millennial Asia: An international journal of Asian Studies published by Sage ( co-edited by Vandana Saxena), 2017 to 2018 (Guest editor, Special issue of SCOPUS indexed journal)
  • Review Editor, Millennial Asia: An international journal of Asian Studies, 2010 to 2020 (Review Editor, SCOPUS indexed journal)
SUPERVISION
(Title of Thesis),(Name of Candidates),(Academic Level),(Role)
COMPLETED
  • AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF MALAYSIAN WOMEN'S TRUST AND PRACTICES ON NETWORK HOSPITALITY, SONIA LIM ERN YI  (Main Supervisor)
ONGOING
  • CHEE SHI YIN  (Main Supervisor)
  • PREMA PONNUDURAI  (Main Supervisor)
  • LIANG LOK MEI  (Co-supervisor (Internal))
PRESENTATION
(Title),(Event),(Date Presented),(Organiser),(Level)
INVITED SEMINAR
  • Convergence and divergence in food consumption? Culture, Class and Place in Malaysian urbanscape., Eating in the city conference, UNESCO, Paris 2017, 04/12/2017 to 06/12/2017, UNESCO Chair on World Food Systems (International)
ORAL PRESENTER
  • Mognard, E. & Dasgupta, A. ( 2021) Between (Re)-Appropriations and Restraints: Transformations in Food Sourcing and Preparation during COVID-19 Lockdowns in Malaysia, Just Food: because it is never Just Food, 09/06/2021 to 15/06/2021, The Culinary Institute of America and New York University (International)
  • Mognard, E. & Dasgupta, A ( 2021) COVID-19 Lockdown in Malaysia, A Lens on the Changing Gender Relations Within Foodways, Manger En Ville : Gender and Foodways under urban Lifestyles: In the cities of Africa, Latin America and Asia, 30/09/2020 to 01/10/2020, UNESCO Chair of World Food Systems, CIRAD et al (International)
PLEANARY/KEYNOTE SPEAKER
  • Food-courts in Malaysia as Sites of Social Bonding, Manger En Ville : Food as Social Bond, 05/02/2021 to 05/02/2021, UNESCO Chair of World Food Systems (International)
COURSE ATTENDED
(Course Title),(Course Mode),(Date/Duration),(Level)
  • 2U2I Briefing (by invitation only), Research, 07/03/2017 to 07/03/2017