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    Meet the Assistant Professor | Assistant Dean

    Kalpita Bhar Paul

    Assistant Professor | Assistant Dean,
    School of Liberal Studies

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    Email : kalpita.paul@bmu.edu.in

    Kalpita Bhar Paul is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University. She has completed her PhD from Manipal University in Environmental Philosophy and was a postdoctoral fellow at IIT Bombay. Her research interests are Applied Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, and Heidegger’s Phenomenology. Before joining BMU, she was a founding faculty at Krea University and taught Philosophy and Environmental Studies. She has also worked in Sustainable Development and natural resource management programs in NGDOs. Currently she serves as an associate editor of Environmental Values Journal.

    • Graduation In: Histroy, Philosophy, Bengali
    • Graduation From: Burdwan University, West Bengal
    • Graduation Year: 2007
    • Post Graduation In: Environment and Development
    • Post Graduation From: Jadavpur University, West Bengal
    • Post Graduation Year: 2012
    • Doctorate In: Environmental Humanities
    • Doctorate From: Manipal University
    • Doctorate Year: 2017
    From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additinal Exp. Details
    2007-2010 Field Organiser for action research, DRCSC
    2017-2018 Post-doc fellow, IIT Bombay
    2019-2023 Assistant Professor Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Krea University
    • “Kalpita Bhar Paul and Soumyajit Bhar. 2023. “Reconciling Interpretations of ‘Being as Such’: Contribution to Ecophenomenology. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(2): 307-326. “
    • Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2023. “COVID-19, Migrant Crisis and Social Contagion of Good Life: A Case Study from Indian Sundarbans” in R. Sreejith Varma, Ajanta Sircar edited Contagion Narratives: The Society, Culture and Ecology of the Global South. Routledge.
    • “Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2020. “A Second Wave of Forest-Settlement Territorialization: A case study from the Indian Sundarbans.” Environment, Space, Place, 12(1): 83-109. “
    • Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2019. “The Ecology of Ahiṃsā: Deconstructing the Transition of Ahiṃsā from being a Religious Vow to an Environmental Ethos.” International Journal of Applied Philosophy (Philosophical Documentation Centre [PDC] & SCOPUS), 33(1): 71-87.
    • Kalpita Bhar Paul. 2019. “A Heideggerian Perspective on Thinking about Water: Revisiting the Transition from Hydrology to Hydrosocial Nexus.” Environmental Philosophy (PDC, JSTOR, & UGC), 16(2): 339-358
    • Member of Ethics Committee, IIIT Sricity, 2021-till date.
    • Associate Editor, Environmental Values, 2021- till date