- Nilkantha Pal (working with Dr. V. Rajesh) awarded the RSVP Expanding the Field Prize 2024 by the Victorian Periodicals Review for his article “Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership and Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880-1920”. His article will appear in the Victorian Periodicals Review in Spring 2025.
- Dr. Debdulal Saha awarded a project funded under SPARC, entitled ‘The Effects of Digital Mediation of Urban Labour Markets: Insights from the New Gig Economies in India’
- Nilkantha Pal has been awarded The Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association for 2024
- Dr. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay has been elected as a Fellow of Royal Historical Society, UK
- Dr. Parth Chauhan has been elected as Executive Committee member for Man & Environment journal of the Indian Society for Prehistoric & Quaternary Studies.
- Anubhav Preet Kaur received a Leakey Foundation grant for her PhD research entitled “Understanding the human-animal-environment interface in the Pinjore Formation (2.6-0.7 million years) of the Chandigarh Siwalik Frontal Range of northern India”
- The special issue on “COVID-19 Crisis and its Implications on the Indian Labour Market” of The Indian Economic Journal co-edited by Dr. Debdulal Saha can be accessed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ieja/current
- Dr. Parth Chauhan was approached and has accepted to serve on the panel of grant proposal reviewers for The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (USA) for 2 years (2021-23).
- Anubhav Preet Kaur, PhD research scholar working under the guidance of Dr. Parth Chauhan in Paleoanthropology-Archaeology Lab is awarded a Sepkoski Paleontology grant for fieldwork to understand the taxonomic diversity and biochronology of Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate fossils in the Siwalik Hills.