Animesh Chatterjee
University of Stavanger, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, University of Leeds, Imperial College London, University of Manchester
0000-0002-3837-4636
About
Animesh Chatterjee is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral research fellow at the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities in the University of Stavanger. His research project, titled "Weathering Colonial Calcutta: Climates, Cultures and Everyday Experiences of the Weather, 1800-1945", studies the history of colonial Calcutta through the weather and aspects of weathering.
As a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt in the European Research Council-funded project “Global History of Material Culture and Technology, 1850-2000,” between 2020 and 2022, he worked on his book manuscript, titled “The Global and Social Lives of Electricity in Colonial Calcutta, c.1875-1945” (under contract with Routledge).
Chatterjee received his PhD in History from the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies at Leeds Trinity University in July 2020.
Employment
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University of Stavanger Marię Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow - Weathering Colonial Calcutta (Project No.: 101061421)2023 - 2025
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Technische Universitat Darmstadt Postdoctoral Researcher2020 - 2022
Education
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University of Leeds PhD2015 - 2020
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Imperial College London MSc History of Science, Medicine and Technology2012 - 2013
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University of Manchester MSc Communication Engineering2008 - 2009
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (6)
- History of Technology in Global Perspectives Save
- Manual and Electrical Energies in the Visualisation of “Electrical Calcutta”, c. 1890-1925 Save
- Shifting Narratives of Electricity and Energy in Periods of Transition Save
- Rethinking Global History of Technology from Alternative Archives Save
- Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India: 1830–1980 by Smritikumar Sarkar Save
- ‘New wine in new bottles’: class politics and the ‘uneven electrification’ of colonial India Save