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'''Samita Sen''' is an [[Indian people|Indian]] historian and academic.<ref name="mcrg">{{cite web|url=http://www.mcrg.ac.in/bm.asp|website=mcrg.ac.in|title=Present Board Members of CRG|accessdate=2019-03-05}}</ref> 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.<ref name="theindiafoundation" /> She then studied at the [[University of Cambridge]], completing her [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (PhD) degree in 1992.<ref name="bio Faculty">{{cite web |title=Professor Samita Sen |url=https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-samita-sen |website=Faculty of History |publisher=University of Oxford |accessdate=15 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Her [[doctoral thesis]] was titled "Women workers in the Bengal jute industry, 1890-1940: migration, motherhood and militancy".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sen |first1=Samita |title=Women workers in the Bengal jute industry, 1890-1940: migration, motherhood and militancy |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358748 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library Board |accessdate=15 March 2019 |date=1992}}</ref>

==Academic career==
Sen was a Prize Fellow at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] between 1990 and 1994.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Sabyasachi Bhattacharya|title=Education and the Disprivileged: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-jBIp3iWdEC&pg=PR9|year=2002|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2192-6|page=ix}}</ref> From 1994 to 2018, she taught history at the [[University of Calcutta]], and [[women's studies]] at [[Jadavpur University]].<ref name="bio Faculty" /> She reached the rank of [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] at Calcutta and [[professor]] at Jadavpur.<ref name="theindiafoundation">{{cite web |title=Samita Sen |url=http://theindiafoundation.org/indiafoundation/e-magazine/gautamindnov/ArchivesNew/biodata/biosamita.htm |website=theindiafoundation.org |accessdate=15 March 2019}}</ref> She was [[Dean (education)|Dean]] of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at Jadavpur University from 2016 to 2018.<ref name="bio Faculty" /> Additionally, she was the first [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Diamond Harbour Women's University]] from 2013 to 2015:<ref name="bio Faculty" /> during her time in charge, she was the only permanent member of staff, with lectures mainly given by visiting staff.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey |author2=Monotosh Chakraborty |title=Four rooms and a VC form a varsity |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Four-rooms-and-a-VC-form-a-varsity/articleshow/46627519.cms |accessdate=15 March 2019 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=20 March 2015}}</ref>

Since 1 October 2018, she has been [[Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History]] at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name="cam">{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2017-18/weekly/6515/section2.shtml|title=Vacancies, appointments, etc. - Cambridge University Reporter 6515|website=admin.cam.ac.uk|accessdate=2019-03-05}}</ref> She is additionally a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|Fellow]] of Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Master & Fellows |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/about/master-fellows/ |website=Trinity College |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=15 March 2019}}</ref>

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