Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi

Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi is an Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata, India and a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar under its Genocide Prevention Program and its Asia Peace Innovators Forum. Besides several papers in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited collections published by prestigious international publishing houses, such as Oxford University Press, De Gruyter, Routledge, Springer, Indiana University Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Lexington, etc., and op-eds in popular media, his numerous publications include a monograph Jews, Judaizing Movements and the Traditions of Israelite Descent in South Asia (New Delhi: Pragati Publications, 2016) and a co-edited collection Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations(London and New York: Routledge, 2021). He has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Tel Aviv and Sydney, and at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK. He teaches an undergraduate course on the global history of interfaith relations and a postgraduate course in Genocide Studies besides several other courses.