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Dr Anandita Bajpai

Personal

Nationality: Indian

Sex: Female

Date of Birth: 26.05.1985

Education

Nov. 2014- Present	Post Doctoral Fellow for DFG Funded Research Project ‘Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989’ at: Department for South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin.
2014	Awarded the academic title of Doctor Philosophiae (Dr. phil.) in Global Studies by the faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Leipzig for the doctoral thesis ‘Speaking’ the Nation: (E)merging faces of economic reforms and secularism in the rhetoric of India’s Prime Ministers, 1991-2011. (Grade: magna cum laude: 0,8)
Oct. 2009- March 2014	PhDCandidate in Global Studies, International PhD Programme ‘Transnationalisierung und Globalisierung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart,’ Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig. Doctoral Studies sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Oct. 2012-March 2014	Visiting Researcher at Department for South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (External Doctoral Supervision- Prof. Dr. Michael Mann).
2006-08 2006-07 2007-08	M.A. Erasmus Mundus Global Studies. Year I M.A. Global Studies at University of Leipzig, Germany. Year II M.A. Global Studies at University of Vienna, Austria. (Cumulative Grade 1,4)
2003-06	B.A. (Honours) in Political Science Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India. (Ranked First in College))
1991-2003	La-Martiniere Girls’ College (Primary and Secondary School), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Awards

from June 2009-March 2013	Awarded the DAAD Scholarship for doctoral candidates by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for Doctoral Studies.
from 2006-2008	Awarded the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for pursuing MA in Global Studies by the European Union.
2006	Held 1st position in the graduating Batch of BA Political Science students in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi: Awarded the Geeta Chopra Memorial Scholarshipin 2006 for holding the first position successively for three years (2003-06) by Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
1996-2001	Awarded a Scholarship for securing the Highest Grades in Hindi (Language and Literature) successively for five years in 2001, by La-Martiniere Girls’ College, Lucknow, India.
2002	Awarded Old Martinian Medal as College Captain of La-Martiniere Girls’ College, Lucknow, India.

PhD Dissertation Project

Title: Speaking the Nation. (E)merging faces of economic reforms and secularism in the rhetoric of India’s Prime ministers, 1991-2011.

Teaching

Summer Semester 2013	‘Negotiating Secularism: The post-colonial state and its ‘trysts’ with the ‘religious’ in India’, Seminar offered for the students of MA South and South East Asian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Summer Semester 2012	‘Externally Accorded Roles or Self-Portrayals? Discursive Constructions of an ‘Emerging India’ Post 1991,’ Seminar offered for the students of MA Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Programme, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig.
Winter Semester 2011-12	‘Empires and Nations: Case Studies and Global Comparison,’ Seminar offered for the students of MA Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Programme with Prof. Dr. M.Middell, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig.
Summer Semester 2011	‘Regional Security Issues in South Asia with special reference to India’s role in South Asia’s emerging Security architecture,’ Seminar offered for the students of MA Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Programme,Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig.
Summer Semester 2011	‘Post-Colonialism and Nationalism-An Introduction,’ Seminar offered for B.A. and M.A. students from the Departments of African Studies, European Studies, American Studies and Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig
Winter semester 2010-11	‘Emerging Trends in South Asia with special reference to India,’ Seminar offered for the students of MA Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Programme, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig.
Winter Semester 2009-2010	‘Post-colonialism: Women, Territory and Minorities,’ Seminar offered for B.A. and M.A. students from the Departments of Sociology and American Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig.
Summer Semester 2009	‘Human Rights in the Era of Globalization,’ Seminar offered for B.A. and M.A. students from the Departments of Sociology and American Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig.
	Guest Lectures
Winter Semester 2010-11	‘Global Performance of National Identities,’ Lecture on ‘Post-Colonial Studies and the contribution of South Asian scholarship to Subaltern Studies,’ GS 720, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig.
Summer Semester 2009	‘Introduction to Social Science Theories of Globalization,’ Lecture on ‘The Asian values debate within the Human Rights discourse on the clash between pleas for the universalization of Human Rights and those for cultural relativism,’ GS 720, Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig.
Summer Semester 2010	‘Consumer Culture: Contemporary Guilt and Desire,’ Lecture on ‘The Depiction of the Female Body and Beauty in Advertising, Case study: a cosmetic brand from India,’ Department of Sociology, University of Leipzig.

Masters Thesis

Title: The Catholic Church as an Education provider in Puerto Rico 1948-60.
University of Vienna, Austria. (2007-2008).

Language skills

English:	Fluent, Academic level. All academic degrees accomplished with English as the medium of instruction.
Hindi:	Mother Tongue
Urdu:	Fluent
German:	Good, Appeared for the Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang DSH, September 18, 2009. Score- DSH 3 (above 80%).

Publications

2015	“‘Speaking’ the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India”, in: Buchardt, M., Middell, M., Wohlrahb Sahr, M. (eds.), Multiple Secularities Beyond the West: Religion and Modernity in the Global Age, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 (ISBN: 978-1-61451-568-5), p 39-61.
2012	“Imagining a ‘Secular’ India: Roots, Offshoots and Future Trajectories of the Secularism Debate in India”, in: South Asia Chronicle, Berlin, 2, 2012.
2010	“Homi K. Bhabha”, in: Mathias Middelland Ulf Engel (eds.), Theoretiker der Globalisierung, Leipzig: Leipzig University Press, April, 2010. (ISBN-10: 3865834590).
2009	The Catholic Church as an Education Provider in Puerto Rico 1948-1960, VDM Publishers, May, 2009. (ISBN-10: 3639151801).
2014	Book Review, Vora, N., Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora, Duke University Press, 2013 (in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2014.
2012	Book Review, Hilger, A.; Unger, C.R. (eds.): India in the World since1947.National and Transnational Perspectives, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012; in: H-Soz-u-Kult 31.01.2014.
2013	Book Review, Harshan Kumarasingham, A Political Legacy of the British Empire: Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-Colonial India and Sri Lanka, I.B. Tauris, London, 2013, in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 36:2, 314-316, 2013.
2011	Book Review, Sharma, S.D., China and India in the Age of Globalization, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009, in: Political Studies Review, Vol. 9, Issue 3, September 2011.
2011	Realization of Women’s Rights amidst the clash of Global Governance and State Sovereignty. Case Study India, in: Journal of Global Awareness, Vol. 11, No.1, Spring 2011.

Conferences/Summer Schools

March 16-19, 2015	‘Emerging faces of India: Visions of the urban in political rhetoric of Indian Prime Ministers since 1991’, Borders and Identities 2015: Urban Fragmentation(s), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren e.V. (GWZ), Berlin.
February 26-28, 2015	“Neoliberal economic reforms and the politics of time in the rhetoric of Indian prime ministers since 1991” (presentation), ‘Lokale Geschichte(n), (Macht-)Politik und die Suche nach historischer Authentizität’, ZentrumModerner Orient.
January 30-31, 2015	Organized the Inaugural Conference of DFG Funded Project ‘Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989’, at the Department for South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
December 10-11, 2012	‘‘Speaking’ the Imaginations of an ‘Emerging India’: The Indian Prime Minister’s discursive projections of a new India post 1991’ (presentation), ‘The Indian Phantasm Conference,’ Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. See link for paper description: http://www.terezakuldova.com/abstracts.htm
February 11, 2012	Presentation of Dissertation Project at the Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaften (Seminar für Süd Asien), Humboldt University, Berlin, (Doktorandenkolloquium organized by Prof. Dr. Michael Mann).
February 3-5, 2012	‘‘Speaking’ the Nation Secular: (E)merging Faces of India,’ Presentation of Chapter at the Winter School, Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Leipzig, held at Oppurg.
September 19-22, 2011	Moderation and Organization of Panel ‘Self-Representations and External Portrayals-Imagining India through the National and the Transnational lens’ at IX. Summer School, ‘Crossing National Borders-People, Goods, Capital Ideas,’ Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Academy Leipzig. Paper Presentation ‘Imagining India: Political Speeches and the discursive constructions of a secular democratic emerging India.’
February 16-19, 2011	‘India’s Quest for Emergence- Self-portrayals vs. Accorded Roles. Political Speech Acts and the Construction of a ‘National Image’,’ Presentation at the IPSA-ECPR Joint Conference, ‘Whatever Happened to North-South?’ University of São Paulo, Brazil.
September, 2010	Organization, Moderation and Presentation of Panel, ‘Imagining the global, portraying the Self: Nation-States and National Identity,’ VIII. International Summer School, Transnational Actors and Actors of Transnationalization, Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Academy Leipzig.
August 8-10, 2010	Addressing the gap between National Policy and International Conventions: Changing Landscapes or a Call for new Initiatives? Case Study: Women’s Education and Health Rights and their effective realization in India,’ Paper presented at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore: V. International Conference on Public Policy and Management.
May 23-25, 2010	Presentation, ‘Realization of Women’s Rights amidst the clash of Global Governance and State Sovereignty. Case Study India,’ Conference theme: Global Development and the changing balance of Power in World Affairs, organized by the Global Awareness Society International, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in Krakow, Poland.
February 20, 2010	Presentation, ‘India’s Emerging Role in a New World Order in three arenas of Global Governance: Climate Change, the UN Reform Debate and Regional Security Issues in South Asia,’ Conference organized by the Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
September 28-October 1, 2009	‘India’s Search for a New Role-Transnational and Transcultural Memories,’ Paper presented at the VII. International Summer School, Memory Cultures in Transcultural and Transnational Perspectives, Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Academy Leipzig.
September 28-October 1, 2009	Organization of Panel, ‘Travelling Memories,’ VII. International Summer School, Memory Cultures in Transcultural and Transnational Perspectives, Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Academy Leipzig.