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Kaustav Padmapati

UPES, India

Dr Kaustav Padmapati is currently working as Assistant Professor at School of Modern Media, UPES, Dehradun. Kaustav is also a Cross Cultural Fellow 2023 at Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He has nearly 12 years of experience in the areas of teaching and research, international projects, media, public policy, content writing and project coordination. He is also a recipient of the Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship and worked from August’11 to May’12 at Center for Asian Studies, SIS, American University, Washington DC, USA as Visiting Fulbright Research Scholar. He completed his Ph.D from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2021. He has published widely on international relations specifically on India- US Relations, Taiwan, Look East Policy, etc. and queer identities. His research areas include China, the US, Taiwan, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, gender, and queer sexuality. His upcoming edited volume “Queer Voices from the Periphery: A Collection of Perspectives from Northeast India” is a humble attempt to bring the voices from academia and members of the community from Northeast, India, to focus on the challenges and struggles faced by them.

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