Prachyadeep Dasgupta

Led outreach and engagement work to increase programme participation and enrolment.

Volunteered as a mentor for the Department's student help desks and addressed my peers' queries about theoretical concepts of Sociology and Anthropology, political economic anthropology, structuralism, and modernism theory.

Designed course materials, tutored undergraduate students, and facilitated students’ engagement with the concepts of Sociology and Anthropology, political economy, and History in the following undergraduate courses:

[SOA-2102] Gift, Commodity and Exchange of Values, Prof. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University.

[HIS-3525/SOA-3091/POL-3111] Modern Megac

Worked as Summer Intern at West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

Research Intern for the project on Special Economic Zones by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in partnership with Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Jadavpur University, India, and National Center for Socio-economic Information and Forecast (NCIF), Vietnam, under the supervision of Dr. Saikat Sinha Roy, Chief Scienti

Graduated Summa Cum Laude as Department Valedictorian
Thesis title: The Lives of Land: Abstraction and Accumulation in Peri-Urban Kolkata
Advisors: Prof. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Ashoka University; Prof. Gaurav C. Garg, Ashoka University

Major in Sociology and Anthropology with Minor in History
Graduated Summa Cum Laude as Department Valedictorian