ProfessorAlok Kumar KanungoIIT Gandhinagar Gandhinagar, India Back to Plenary Lectures » | |
Short Bio:Dr Alok Kumar Kanungo (kanungo.co.in), Associate Research Professor at IIT Gandhinagar and adjunct Professor at Flinders University, specializes in archaeological and ethnographic studies of indigenous and ancient technology. He has travelled and documented the rich heritage of the Nagas of north-east India, and the ancient glass of India, both on the field and in museums across Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He has written or edited seventeen books, one journal and eighty research articles. He has received many awards including Scientific Missionary, Humboldt, Fulbright, British Academy, Rakow, Homi Bhabha, SPARC, ICG and ICHR Fellowships. He has lectured in many universities and research institutes in the US, New Zealand, Europe, South-East Asia, besides India. |