Madhuchanda Ghosh

Assistant Professor

·   B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science, St. Xavier’s College  (Calcutta University), India

·   M.A. in International Relations, Jadavpur University , Kolkata, India

·   Ph.D. in International Relations, Jadavpur University, India

    Sasakawa Tokyo Foundation SYLFF Ph.D Fellowship Award 2004-2007

    Japan Foundation Post Doctoral Award (Short Term) 2011

    Japan Foundation Post Doctoral Award (Long Term) 2014

She graduated in Political Science from St. Xaviers College and completed Masters in International Relations from Jadavpur University. In 2002 she represented the Dept. of International Relations of Jadavpur University in Japan at the Youth Forum held in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto and Osaka, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and delivered a presentation entitled : Regional Security in South Asia. As a delegate she was invited to the Tokyo Royal Palace to interact with the Japanese Royal Highness Prince Akishino on the cultural dynamics in India-Japan relations. The enriching experience inspired her to engage in doctoral research in the study of India’s evolving relations with Japan. She started her teaching career in April 2010 as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Political Science of Panchur College under Calcutta University. In January 2013, she joined the Dept. of Political Science, Presidency University as an Assistant Professor.

Her Ph.D thesis was entitled - India and Japan : Prospects for a Strategic Convergence. Her doctoral research was completed under the JU-SYLFF research programme. She was a doctoral JU-SYLFF fellow of Tokyo Foundation (2004-2007). She completed part of her doctoral research work in Waseda University, Tokyo as a visiting researcher of Waseda University. She has been a Post Doctoral Fellow of Japan Foundation. She has presented research papers in international conferences in India, Japan, China, South Korea, Cambodia and Germany. In 2011 she visited Japan for post doctoral research under the Japan Foundation’s post doctoral fellowship to study the emerging trends in Japan’s foreign policy. During the research trip she conducted research interviews with top-ranking Japanese policymakers including the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe and some other noted members of the Japanese Parliament. She has publications in refereed journals of national and international repute including one in the journal of Asian Survey. Besides journal publications, she has edited books and contributed chapters in edited volumes.

She has served as the Head of the Dept. of Political Science of Panchur College under Calcutta University.  She has also served as the Teacher-in-Charge of the college.

She teaches International Relations in the Post Graduate level and Indian Constitution and Comparative Politics in the Undergraduate level.

Supervising two Ph.D candidates registered at Presidency University

Books

·  US Policy Towards China, India and Japan: New Challenges and Prospects, Madhuchanda Ghosh, Rajkumar Kothari and Yamamoto Takehiko (eds.),Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2013

· Monograph entitled Japan in India’s Look East Policy, published by Department of International Relations of  Jadavpur University, 2010-2011

· India’s Foreign Policy : The Changing Dynamics, Debamitra Mitra and Madhuchanda Ghosh (eds.),  ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2009

· India’s Look East Policy : The Emerging Trends, Debamitra Mitra and Madhuchanda Ghosh (eds.), ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India,  2008.

Newspaper articles : 

Japan Times : Modi's Focus on India-Japan relationship, August 25, 2014

Japan News Yomuri Shimbun : India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Renewed Focus on Peace and Security in Asia December 9, 2015

   Essays, research articles, and chapters (selected)

·    India and Japan: A New Economic Partnership, in Rajkumar Kothari (ed.), India and the World: Confronting Challenges of the Twenty First Century, Atlantic  Publishers, New Delhi, March 2012

·   India’s Foreign Policy in the New Century : Challenges and Possibilities, in Debamitra Mitra and Madhuchanda Ghosh (eds) India’s Foreign Policy : The Changing Dynamics, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2009.

·   Nationalism and the Paradoxes of Globalisation, in Arnab Bhattacharya (ed.), Nationalism :Theory Formations and Future, ICFAI University Press, January 2009.

·   Revisiting Japan’s Policy in Globalisation, in D. Mitra (ed.) Globalisation and its Interface: Developed World and the Growing Economies, ICFAI University Press, 2009.

·   Asia Pacific in India’s Look East Policy : Prospects for Deeper Engagement in Debamitra Mitra and Madhuchanda Ghosh (eds.) India’s Look East Policy : The Emerging Trends,  ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2008.