Faculty Details
Dr. Amita Satyal
Dr. Amita Satyal
Designation
Visiting Faculty (Associate Professor Level)
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Early Buddhist ideas and history; Environmental history; Ecological knowledge; Nature & materiality; Networks; Big history; Practice of history; Vipassana meditative practice; Learning facilitation; Teaching effectiveness; Disease & mindfulness.
Year of Joining at NU
2019
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
19 years (Full-Time: 17 years)
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA 94720
Awards/Honours
Teaching & Select Research Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award: University of California, Berkeley, 2002-03- Dean’s Research Grant: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Newark, 2010-11
- Sather Fellowship: University of California, Berkeley, 2006-07
- Mellon Research Grant: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York-CMES UCB, 2002-03
- Humanities Research Grant: University of California, Berkeley, 2001-02
- American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship: University of Chicago, USA, 2002-03
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- ‘A New Kind of Oceanic History’. Kalakalpa IGNCA Journal of Arts. Vol VII, No.1, July 2022: 1-22.
- ‘Archaeology: Fundamental Issues and The Way Forward’. Reimagining South Asian Art, Culture and Archaeology. Madhab Choudhary et al (eds.). Delhi: Swati Publications, 2021.
- ‘Making culture portable’: Silk Road merchants and monks as a bridge between Indian and East Asian Buddhism’. Buddhism in East Asia. Shankar Thapa & Anita Sharma (eds.). Delhi: Vidyanidhi Prakashan, 2013.
- Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia, Volume 4, Parts I, II, Prehistory to 1200. New York: Sage Publications, Inc., 2012.
- “Hijras and the Politics of Empowerment in Contemporary India,” Harvard Asia Quarterly, 3 [Summer 2001]: 4-11.