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| Educational background |
2016 Awarded PhD. at Princeton University 2008 Trained as a doctoral fellow (supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research) at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. |
| Prior employment |
2019-2021: Global Perspectives on Society Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University, Shanghai 2018-2019: Assistant Professor, History, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati |
| Profile |
Ritwik Ranjan has been educated in India and the United States. Situated at the crossroads of the Philosophy of History, the History of Ideas, and Literature, Ritwik's dissertation was awarded the ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize (2018) by the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. Ritwik assisted undergraduate teaching in the departments of History,Near Eastern Studies and Sociology at Princeton and subsequently he taught courses covering various themes in European and South Asian histories at the Indian Institute of Technology in Assam, India. Prior to joining ShanghaiTech University, Ritwik served as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, Shanghai. |
| Publications |
“Postcoloniality and the two sites of historicity” in History and Theory 56 (1): 38-53 (2017). Mimeticism and Historiography: The Making of a Hindu Past in the Thought of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 41 (1): 1-17 (2018). |