College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Community Sustainability

Home Country: Calcutta, India

Advisor: Phillip Warsaw

• Titas’ research interests primarily focus on land acquisition and displacement, particularly the gendered access and ownership of land. She also studies the role of institutions in addressing the use and access to natural resources, community rights of local and traditional dwellers. Further, how 'land-grab' for development initiatives have accelerated in the wake of globalization in India.

Appointments

2023: Teaching Assistant, Centre for Integrative Studies in General Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Michigan State University.

2023-24: Graduate Fellow, Scholarship in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning (SUTL) program, Lyman Briggs College and Graduate School, Michigan State University.

2023: Instructor, Community Sustainability, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, CSUS 200.

2022: Instructor, Community Sustainability, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, CSUS 215.

2018: MA Economics, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India.

Recent Publications:

Dutta, Titas (2022): “Exploring Conflicts of Development: A Socio-Economic perspective to the Major Forms of Land Dispossession in Post-Colonial India,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.57, Issue No. 18, 20 April 2022. https://www.epw.in/engage/article/exploring-conflicts-development-socio-economic.