Samita Sen

Samita Sen is an Indian historian and academic. Having previously taught at the University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University, she has been Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge since 2018.

Early life and education Sen studied history at the University of Calcutta, graduating with Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees. Her doctoral thesis was titled Women workers in the Bengal jute industry, 1890-1940: migration, motherhood and militancy.

Academic career Sen was a Prize Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1990 and 1994. From 1994 to 2018, she taught history at the University of Calcutta, and women's studies at Jadavpur University. She was dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at Jadavpur University from 2016 to 2018.

Since 1 October 2018, she has been Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Books Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry; Cambridge University Press, 1999 Domestic Days: Women, Work and Politics in Contemporary Kolkata; (co-authored with Nilanjana Sengupta) Oxford University Press, 2016