Dr. Ranjan Chakrabarti (M.A., Ph.D. JU), the Vice-Chancellor of NSOU, was a Professor of History (currently on Lien) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He was previously Vice- Chancellor of Vidyasagar University, West Bengal (2011-2021). He is a former Fulbright Scholar at Brown University, USA (1994-95), and a recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), the Alexander O’Vietor Memorial Fellowship at Brown University and the Alfred Bell Memorial Fellowship at the Forest History Society (Duke University). He is a former member of the editorial board of Global Environment (Italy, www.globalenvironment.it). At different points of time in his career he lectured, taught or held important visiting assignments at Brown University, London University, Roskilde University (Denmark), Shelby College at Memphis (Tennessee), Le Moyne Owen College (USA), Centre of South Asian Studies (SOAS, London), Australian National University, Canberra, Sydney University of Technology, West Virginia University, Morgantown (USA), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH, Paris), the Rachael Carson Centre, Munich, The Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities (KWI), Essen, the Sciences Po, Paris, and other institutions in India and abroad. Professor Chakrabarti served as an expert member of several UGC committees and committees of the Govt of West Bengal. He was a nominee of the Visitor (The Honourable President of India) and of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Govt of India to Central Universities/Institutes. He was the Visitor’s (President of India) Nominee to Mizoram Central University and Nagaland Central University.
Professor Chakrabarti's recent publications include Order and Disorder in Early Colonial Bengal 1800-1860, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2022; Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2022, Critical Themes in Environmental History of India, Los Angeles/London/New Delhi: Sage, 2020; Situating Environmental History, Delhi: Manohar, 2021 (new edition) and a co-edited volume, Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity, Heidelberg/London: Springer, 2012.
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