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Simanti Dasgupta

University of Dayton, United States

Fall 2023-
Present Interim Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, University of Dayton
Fall 2020-
Spring 2023 Director, International Studies Program, University of Dayton.

Fall 2019-
Spring 2020 Associate Director, International Studies Program, University of Dayton.

Fall 2015-
Present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, University of Dayton.


2009 PhD, Anthropology, New School for Social Research, NYC.



2021-2022 Research Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

2020-2021 University Faculty Award for Scholarship, University of Dayton.

2018-2019 National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Connections Planning Grant, Collaborator

2016-2019 McGrath Fellow, Human Rights Center, University of Dayton.


Publications
2023 Hussain, Salman and Simanti Dasgupta “Built Lives: Khwajasaras, Jouno-Karmis and the Politics of Non-normative Kinship and Citizenship in South Asia [Feminist Anthropology, First published: 30 May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12118

2019 Dasgupta, Simanti. “Of Raids and Returns: Sex Work Movement, Police Oppression, and the Politics of the Ordinary in Sonagachi, India”. Anti-Trafficking Review, 12:127-39.

2015 Dasgupta, Simanti. 2015. BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water and Neoliberal Governance India. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

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