Our guest from India: Sujoy Dutta
Social scientist Sujoy Dutta from India is working at the WZB for six months. He is the first Fellow of the Global Fellowship Program funded by the WZB and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). After academic years in the Netherlands and Singapore, Dutta is an Associate Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Studies in Hyderabad. His main research interests include agrarian structure, peasant economy and society, as well as social movements amongst peasants. He will stay at the WZB until February 2015, focusing on his research project concerning the Indian poverty alleviation program NREGA.
During his residency at the WZB, Dutta will be affiliated to the Inequality and Social Policy research unit – while benefitting from the wide range of WZB research. Through their Global Fellowship Program, the WZB and the ISSC aim at contributing towards building a new generation of outstanding social scientists in developing countries who are willing and able to contribute to solving current global problems.