Dr. Amita Satyal

Dr. Amita Satyal is Visiting Faculty affiliated with the School of Historical Studies at Nalanda University. Her PhD in South Asian History was completed at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. The main focus of her doctoral work was on the interconnected histories of medieval overland commerce spanning the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. Dr. Satyal’s teaching career spans about fifteen years in India and the USA. During this time, she developed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses with an interdisciplinary tilt on Indian History, (Big) History of Asia, Early Buddhism, Environmental History, Contemplative Traditions, Historiography, and the Indian Ocean. Dr. Satyal’s current research initiative seeks to explore the history and consciousness interface. She has published nationally and internationally on topics in the history and culture of Asia, aspects of late twentieth/early twenty first century India, spread of Buddhism, trends in archaeology, and ecology of cosmogenic myths. Dr. Satyal has also worked with school-level leaders in state-run schools for promoting facilitation skills and deep learning environments.