Associate Professor & Head
MA, M.Phil, Ph.D
9995552731
krishnatripunithura@gmail.com
Ph.D from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2005-2010).
Topic: “Forests and People in Island Societies: Andaman Islands – 1880s-1980s”
M. Phil from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, (2003-2005)
Topic: “Forestry and the Socio-Ecological History of a Colony: Impact of the Changing Pattern of Forest Resource Use in the Andaman Islands, 1880-1947”
MA in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (History) from School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam (2000-2002)
MA in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (History) from School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam (2000-2002)
Assistant Professor in History at Newman College, Thodupuzha since June 2012.
Ad-hoc Lecturer at Hindu College, Delhi University during 2011-12.
Research Associate at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, New Delhi during August 2009 to September 2011.
Project Fellow at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on a project titled “Tsunami and its Impact on Livelihood and Health of the People in Andaman and Nicobar Islands”, funded by University Grants Commission during November 2006 to May 2007.
Research Associate at AC Nielsen-ORG MARG on a World Bank project titled “Moving out of Poverty” during November 2005 to June 2006.
Research Scholar in a project on the “Livelihood Strategies of the Tribal People of Chinnar Wild Life Sanctuary”, carried out by the School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam for the Kerala Forest Department in 2002.
Field Assistant in a project conducted by the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram on “The Economics of the Nature Based Tourism in South India” in 2002.
Research Centre: Union Christian College, Aluva
Number of Registered Ph.D Candidates : 4
Completed Major Research Project titled “Imperial Forestry: Ambiguities and Contradictions – A Study in Governmentality of the Andaman Forests, 1880s – 1980s” funded by University Grants Commission (2013-2015) (Rs. 9.4 Lakhs)