Dr. Sangbida Lahiri is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking, JKLU. She specialises in History and International relations in South and South-east Asia. The title of her PhD thesis is ‘Emergence of the Student: History of a Political Concept in Colonial Calcutta (1905-1935)’. Her thesis studies the evolution of modern political concepts in 20th century colonial Calcutta among the students’ groups. It also analyses the ways in which, these political concepts have remained important in the political coteries even seventy years after Independence. It oversees the historic-political trajectories of urban subjective formation during colonial times and its continuation after the withdrawal of colonial hegemony.

Dr. Sangbida holds more than 12 years of teaching and research experience. Before joining JKLU, she worked with a government survey project at Sonagachi Red Light district in Kolkata in 2022-23. She was also associated with National Human Rights Commission and University of Glasgow as a researcher. Dr. Sangbida worked with Calcutta Research groups and Jadavpur University in various research projects on women and labour migration. Formerly, she was a full-time journalist in Kolkata and worked with Ananda Bazar Patrika and Ei Samay, Bennet and Coleman & Co where she was reporting on education, administration, politics, crime, women, and various other topics.