Debi Chatterjee Former Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Debi Chatterjee has taught at the university level for over thirty years. She is a former Professor of the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, where she taught from 1981 to 2012.She was a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University from February 2015 to May 2015, and also at the Department of Human Rights and Human Development in the same university from August 2015 to January 2016. She has been a guest lecturer at the Department of Sociology and for the Human Rights Programme under the Department of Anthropology at Calcutta University.
Her main areas of interest are dalit studies, Indian society and social problems, human rights and gender issues. Books authored by her include Colour Volcano, Marxist Thought in India, Sociology of National Integration, Ideas and Movements against Caste in India: Ancient to Modern Times, Up against Caste: Comparative Study of Ambedkar and Periyar, Dalit Rights/Human Rights. Apart from these, she has been the co-editor of a volume on Human Rights: Theory and Practice, written monographs, and contributed articles to edited volumes, journals and little magazines on themes of human rights, dalits and caste oppression. She writes in both English and Bengali. She has been editing the bi-annual journal Contemporary Voice of Dalit (earlier called Voice of Dalit) since 2008.
