Navras Aafreedi
Active member
City, State:
Kolkata
Country:
India
Affiliation:
Presidency University, Kolkata
BIO:
Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi is an Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata, where he teaches courses in Jewish History, Genocide Studies, Interfaith Relations and Minority Studies. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), New York and a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar under its Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Program and its Asia Peace Innovators Forum.
His numerous publications include his monograph JEWS, JUDAIZING MOVEMENTS AND THE TRADITIONS OF ISRAELITE DESCENT IN SOUTH ASIA (New Delhi, 2016), co-edited volume CONCEPTUALIZING MASS VIOLENCE: REPRESENTATIONS, RECOLLECTIONS, AND REINTERPRETATIONS (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), several papers in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books published by prestigious international publishing houses, such as De Gruyter, Routledge, Springer, Indiana University Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Lexington, etc.
Research Focus:
Early Warning/Early Response, Genocide Education, Genocide Prevention, History, Holocaust, Mass Atrocity Prevention, Memory, Peace, Peacebuilding, Religion
Regional Focus:
Europe, Middle East/North Africa, South Asia