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Saumyajit Ray

Saumyajit Ray
Saumyajit Ray
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Canadian, US & Latin American Studies,
School of International Studies
Room No
32, SIS-I
Off. Phone
011-26738712
Residence
9868337072, 9654344345
Email
saumyajitray@mail.jnu.ac.in , ray.saumyajit@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

B.A.-Hons., Political Science (Presidency College, Calcutta);
M.A., Sociology (JNU, New Delhi);
M.Phil., United States Studies (JNU, New Delhi);
PhD, United States Studies (JNU, New Delhi);
UGC-NET, Political Science (1995); UGC-NET/JRF, International Studies (1997).

Areas of Interest/Specialization

United States: Conservatism and conservative movements; Christianity and the Christian ethos in America; evangelicalism; American Judaism; language, ethnicity, and politics; Official English; White supremacy and Black resistance; parties and elections; the American presidency; guns and gun rights; the American Left; political dynasties (esp. the Kennedys); the American Mafia; American Group Theater and Method Acting.

Beyond United States: The Cold War; ethnic and religious wars and revolutions; Theravada and Sinhala Buddhist nationalism; secessionist movements; Judaism; Jewish-Christian relations and Judeo-Christian theological conflict; Christianity and the Christian Right; Islam and Islamism; Shia Islam; post-Soviet communism; political assassinations; Sikhism, Sikh politics, and Sikh militancy; history and politics of the Jats.

Experience

17 years of teaching experience. I teach four MA and two PhD courses which I introduced and developed the curriculum for:

MA courses
1. Government and Politics in the United States (IS513N)
2. Introduction to American Society (IS598N)
3. Religion, State, and Politics in the Modern World (IS474N)
4. International Relations during the Cold War (IA513)

PhD courses
1. Society and Culture in the United States (AW653)
2. Dynamics of American Society (AW654)"

Awards & Honours

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International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. “For justice, we must go to Don Corleone”: The Mafia boss and his quest for a just society”, International Journal of Applied Social Science, Vol. 6, No. 7, July 2019, pp. 1975-82
  2. “A Crusade Gone Wrong: George W. Bush and the War on Terror in Asia”, International Studies, Vol. 52, Nos. 1-4, December 2017, pp. 12-26
  3. “The Fragmenting of America: Problems in the Assimilation of Latinos in the United States”, JAIR Journal of International Relations, Volume 2, Issue 1, January-June 2015, pp. 8-27
  4. “How the Speaker of the US House of Representatives from the ‘Other Party’ Shaped American Politics since 1945”, International Studies, Volume 49, Numbers 3 & 4, July & October 2012, pp. 377-95.
  5. “New Conservatives or Old Liberals: Neocons and the Republican Internationalist Revival”, India Quarterly, Vol. LXI, No.1, January-March, 2005, pp. 118-41.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. AMERICA’S COMMON BOND: Why English should be the official language of the United States (New Delhi: Reference Press, 2010
  2. CHINA’S WORRYING EUNUCHS: Resistance to Beijing’s Belligerence in South China Sea (New Delhi: Ane Books, 2019), ed. with Gautam Kumar Jha.