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Niladri Chatterjee, new Researcher at LNUC Concurrences

Niladri Chatterjee is appointed as a Researcher at the LNU Concurrences during the Fall semester 2024.

Dr. Chatterjee holds a PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He was previously appointed as Assistant Professor in History (2016-2018) at North South University, Bangladesh, as Visiting Researcher at the LNU concurrences (2018-2019), and until recently, as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2024) at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include South Asian studies, global health, historical disasters, and colonial and postcolonial studies. Although trained as a historian, his research is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating social, political, cultural and anthropological perspectives. He has a number of research publications, and regularly writes Op-Eds and commentaries for various platforms on contemporary sensitive issues.

During his tenure at the LNU Concurrences, Dr. Chatterjee will be working closely with the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons. More specifically, he will be collaborating with, but not limited to, the cluster co-leader Eleonor Marcussen, in preparing and applying for external research grants from within Sweden and the EU, based on two research projects. While the first one aims to study the Swedish Match industry from Nordic colonialism and global history perspective, the other project seeks to analyse political culture of public health as an electoral agenda - or the lack thereof – in postcolonial South Asia. Additionally Dr. Chatterjee will also be involved in teaching courses within the Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Masters program.