Sohini Mukhopadhyay
Graduate Student
History
Contact
Building & Room:
UH 1002
Address:
UIC Department of History, 601 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL
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About
Sohini is a PhD student, interested in South Asian history with a focus on gender and cultural history. She is working under the supervision of Professor Rama Mantena.
Teaching Experience
Hist 100: “Western Civilisation till 1648,” Department of History, UIC, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2022.
Hist 275: “History of South Asia to 1875,” Department of History/ Department of Global Asian Studies, UIC, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2023.
Hist 101: “Making the Modern World” Department of History, UIC, Teaching Assistant, Summer 2023.
Hist 255: “History of Chicago” Department of History, UIC, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2023.
Research Internships & Museum Experience
2019, Intern at Partition Museum
2019, Research Assistant to Professor Anshu Malhotra at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Languages
Bengali: Fluent
Hindi: Fluent
English: Fluent
Selected Publications
Mukhopadhyay, Sohini “A Fallen Woman’s Autobiography” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 80, (2022) :707- 714. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27192924.
Book Reviews
Mukhopadhyay, Sohini “The Tragic Queen of Fashion”. Review of Queen of Fashion; What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber Rabindra Bharati University Women’s Studies Centre Newsletter, Vol VII, (2021-2022): 55-60.
Notable Honors
2022, Provost’s Graduate Research Award, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022, LAS Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022, Student Presenter Award, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022, Summer Research Grant, University of Illinois at Chicago
2021, University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago
2019, Qualified UGC NET (National Eligibility Test) for the post of Assistant Professor,, India
2019, Fellowship for M.Phil. in History, University of Hyderabad
2018, Certificate of Merit (Part I + II + III), Scottish Church College, Calcutta University
2018, Kalidas Mukherjee Prize, Scottish Church College, Calcutta University
2018, Prof Mahendralal Sircar Memorial Prize, Scottish Church College, Calcutta University
Education
2021 - M.Phil. in History, Department of History , University of Hyderabad
2018 - M.A. in History, University of Delhi
2016 - B.A. in History, Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta
Selected Presentations
- 2022, “The Prostitute and the State in Bengali Society” Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, 16th- 18th September, 2022.
- 2022, “Death and its Social Life; Women and the Culture of Death in 19th century Bengal” the Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 21st -23rd July 2022.
- 2021, “A Prostitute’s Tale,” 6th International Congress of Bengal Studies held by International Society of Bengal Studies
in Collaboration with the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies - 2019, “A Fallen Woman’s Autobiography” at the 81st Indian National Congress held at Kannur in Kerala, India.