Kaushik Bhaumik
Kaushik Bhaumik
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Email
kbhaumik[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in , bhaumikenator[at]gmail[dot]com
Qualifications

DPhil, History, University of Oxford, 2002
MA, History (Ancient), JNU, 1996 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Early cinema, World Cinema, Asian Cinema, Bombay Cinema, Cultural histories of the 20th century, Contemporary Art and Media cultures 

Experience

Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, 2013-
Deputy Director, Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi, 2010-2013
Curator, Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi, 2007-2009
Research Fellow, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK, 2003-2006
Coordinator of the Tibet Visual History Project, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2003 

Awards & Honours

Research Fellowship, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK, 2003-2006
Proxima accessit, Frere Exhibition, University of Oxford, 1999
Felix Scholar at Oxford, 1996-1999
University Grants Commission Junior Research Fellowship, India, 1996
Nehru Memorial Award in History, 1996 

International Collaboration/Consultancy
Osia's-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi, 2007-2013 The Cinema/City: Bombay/Mumbai Project at the Forum, 60th Berlinale, 2010 The Contraband Modern in Fes Medina project co-hosted by the Open University, UK and University of Fez, Morocco, 2004-2006 The Tibet Visual History Project at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2003 The British Film Institute Imagine Asia Program, 2001-2002
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Film and Migration, South Asi?, Immanuel Ness (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

‘Cinematograph to Cinema: Bombay, 1896-1928’, Bioscope, v.2, no.1, 2011

‘Genealogies for our Skins: Notes on Bare Minima’ in Sandhini Poddar ed., Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, New York: The Guggenheim Museum, 2010

‘At Home in the World: Cinema and the Cultures of the Young in Bombay in the 1920s’ in Douglas Haynes, Abigail McGowan, Tirthankar Roy and Haruka Yanagisawa eds., Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010

(co-edited with Elizabeth Edwards) Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader, Oxford: Berg, 2009 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

(co-edited with Madhusree Dutta and Rohan Shivkumar) Project Cinema/City: Bombay/Mumbai, New Delhi: Tulika Books (forthcoming, 2013)
Editor, The 100 Years of Bombay Cinema, Marg Special Issue, v.64, no.4, Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2013
(with Virchand Dharamsey), The Script of Gul-e-Bakavali (Kohinoor, 1924), Bioscope, v.3, no.2, 2012