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Sounita Mukherjee

Sounita Mukherjee is currently working as a Research Assistant on a research project titled 'Bookscape' with the University of California, Santa Barbara, alongside its publication. She also contributes as a Citizen Historian documenting the accounts of the 1947 Partition witnesses and survivors for the 1947 Partition Archive which collaborates with the Stanford University Library and Archive. Sounita has been a former M.Phil research scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) affiliated to Jadavpur University, where she submitted her thesis titled, 'The City as Political Exhibitionary Space: Kolkata, 2011-2018' in the year 2018 under the supervision of Professor Tapati Guha-Thakurta. She has taught as guest faculty at the Department of Political Science in Scottish Church College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, and has also contributed as research assistant on diverse projects ranging from ethnographic and archival research and writing, to documenting and writing on global electoral datasets, to a project on pre-primary education in West Bengal supported by international and national bodies. She read Political Science for her B.A. (Hons)., and M.A. at Presidency University, Kolkata, and is an aspiring doctoral candidate with interests in Partition studies, Urban Governance and Visual Politics, Culture and Politics, and Gender.