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 About 5% students have done in-house projects, in the form of Term papers.
 Student dissertation: the post graduate students have completed 76 dissertations during
2012-2016 various subjects in the discipline which involved both primary d secondary data
19. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by Faculty
1. Dr. Priyanca Mathur Velath has been appointed as Member of Editorial Board of Refugee
Law Reader, Hungary (2013-16).
2. Dr. Priyanca Mathur Velath received the Schomburg Fellowship, Ramapo College,
Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A. (October 2015)
3. Awarded funding of Rs 1 Lakh from the 'Seed Grant for Research' by St. Joseph's College,
Bangalore to conduct a year-long Research Project (November 2016-17) titled "Nation - State
and its Members: Dilemma of Citizenship and 'Outsiders' in India"
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows:
4. Dr. Sujit Kumar was awarded PhD in Political Science from Institute for Social and
Economic Change (ISEC) on the subject titled- “A Study on Politics of Dispossession and
Underdevelopment: Appropriating Local Mechanisms in West Singhbhum of Jharkhand, ” on
16 August 2016.
5. Dr. Sanam Roohi was awarded PhD in 2016 from the University of Amsterdam.
20. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by
Doctoral / post doctoral fellows - none
Students:
1. Ashwathy Vijayan: Interned with the Nodal Center of Excellence for Human Rights
Education at the School of Law, Rights and Constitutional Governance, Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, from November 1-16,2014.
2. Research intern with Dr. K.M. Parivelan, Associate Prof on an ongoing project on
Exploring Durable Solutions For Sri Lankan Refugees In India, and concluded it as M.A.
Dissertation on ―Post-Conflict Developments in Post-War Sri Lanka‖
3. Awarded fellowship to attend the Bandaranaike Center for International Studies, Colombo,
Sri Lanka between 22 April - 14 June 2014.
4. Short course on Gender and Forced Migration from 17-20 February, 2015 at Bangkok
organised by Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) and the Institute for Human
Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University, Thailand
5. Awarded Special Achievement Prize at the College Day Program and was elected Best
Outgoing Student (PG).
6. Dinesh Rajgopal presented a paper at a three-day International Conference on ―India‘s
Asian Order: Culture, Economy and Security‖, at the Dept. of Civics and Politics, University
of Mumbai from December 8-10, 2014
7. Riffath Khaji (Co-authored with Aparajita Das) published an article titled ―Uncertain
Pakistan‖, Deccan Herald, December 21, 2014.
8. Kriti Chopra(Co-Authored with P.M.Velath) published an article titled ―The Stateless
People – Rohingyas in Hyderabad‖ in Majumdar, S., Velath, P.M., Chopra, K. and
Chakraborty, M. Rohingyas in India: Birth of a Stateless Community, Policies and Practises,
No 71, September, 2015 Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. ISSN 2348 0297
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9. Alwyn D‘Souza was awarded 3 place in a team event (senior category) at the All India
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National Kung Fu Karate Tournament conducted at Hosur Tamil Nadu on 22 February,
2015.
10. Summaiya Khan‘s (M.A. Political Science) article, ―Civil Nuclear Liability Regime and
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Indian Nuclear Power Sector‖ was published in ISSSP Reflections, No.29, on 23 July, 2015.
11. Ananth Shreyas interned with Swarajya, a magazine based out of Bangalore. During his
internship he worked with editorial team, from May 1, 2015 to June 1, 2015
12. Summaiya Khan interned with Institute for Strategic and Security Studies Programme
(ISSSP) National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS). Worked on Nuclear Liability
issues under Dr. Arun Vishwanathan from April 20- June 1 2015.
13. Vishaka V. Warrier worked as a Research Assistant to Prof. Supriya Roychowdhury at
the Institute for Social and Economic Change from 25 April 2016 to 1 June 2016.

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