Felciatations to Professor Deepak Behera at Sambalpur University

2016-12-01T02:37:00.001-08:00

Professor Deeapk Kumar Behera

Professor Deepak Behera Meeting with Dr.SC.Jamir Hon'ble Governor Odisha

2016-12-01T02:35:00.001-08:00

Professor Deepak Kumar Behera

2016-10-05T04:26:00.000-07:00

Our beloved Former Vice Chancellor Professor Deepak Kumar Behera

2016-08-01T06:59:00.000-07:00

Professor Deepak Kumar Behera
Former Vice- Chancellor Berhampur University
"People's Vice-Chancellor"

Short Biography of Professor Deepak Kumar Behera

Former Vice Chancellor, Berhampur University

Professor Deepak Kumar Behera was the former Vice-Chancellor of Berhampur University, India between 1^st August 2013 and 31^stJuly 2016. He was a member of the Governing Council of Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi during the same period. Under his dynamic leadership, Berhampur University has become the first and only state-funded University which has been accredited by NAAC, Bengaluru with “A” Grade. He obtained both his Master’s degree (Gold Medalist) and Ph.D. from Sambalpur University, India. He has been in the teaching profession for more than 30 years and a full time Professor since 2000. Professor Behera was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at California State University at Long Beach during the Fall semester 2007-08. As a Fulbright Professor, he independently taught a course titled, “Childhood in a Changing Context (With Special Reference to South Asia)” to the graduate students of Department of Human Development of the University. Professor Behera served as DAAD Guest Professor to Tubingen University, Germany for the period April-July 2013. He was Visiting Professor in the Dept. of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark (2011), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (2001, 2003), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa (2001), Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004) and Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris and CNRS-EHESS, Toulouse (2006).He was also the recipients of Carlos Chaga Foundation Fellowship, Brazil, National Research Foundation Fellowship, Republic of South Africa, German Research Council, Germany, Indo-French Fellowship, India/France, Indo-Israel Fellowship, India/Israel, Nippon Anthropological Fellowship, Japan, etc.He has to his credit more than 100 research publications in reputed journals and edited volumes. Most of his publications are in the fields of tribal studies, children and childhood, social exclusion and gender studies. Professor Behera has in total authored/edited twenty-two volumes. Of those, eight published volumes of the series Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies (Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi) are jointly with Professor Georg Pfeffer of Institute of Ethnology of Free University of Berlin, Germany. Some of the books published by Professor Behera in the field of children and childhood are: Contemporary Society: Childhood and Complex Order (Manak Publication, New Delhi, 1996), Children and Childhood in Contemporary Societies (Kamla-Raj Enterprise, New Delhi, 1998), Public Images of Children (Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Social Sciences, New Delhi, 1999) and Children and Youth in the Metropolitan Cultures (Guest Editor, Special Issue of the International Journal of Anthropology, Florence, June 2001, jointly with Professor Margaret Trawick of Massey University of New Zealand), Childhoods in South Asia (Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2007), Extending Ethnographic Research with Children in the Asia Pacific Region (Guest Editor, Special Issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 12 (5), November 2011 (Routledge), jointly with Professor Roxana Waterson of the Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore). He has collaborated with more than 30 overseas scholars in various publications and research projects. He has successfully completed more than a dozen research projects funded by UGC, ICSSR, Ministry of Welfare, National Literacy Mission Authorities, Winrock International, Shastri Foundation, WHO, German Research Council, etc. Professor Behera has presented paper in more than 25 different international conferences held in Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, USA, South Africa, China, Japan, Italy, Norway, France, UK, Bangladesh, Brazil, France, Egypt, Singapore, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, South Korea, etc. He has delivered several invited lecturers in different overseas universities and research institutes (like Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Tel Aviv University, Israel, University of Orange Free State, South Africa, University of Durban West-Ville, South Africa, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Utah, Logan, etc.) He was the Editor of the Journal of Social Sciences(New Delhi)during 1997-2002. Professor Behera was elected as a member of the Executive Board of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), the apex anthropological body at the international level, in the year 1998 and served in that position for two consecutive terms, i.e. for the period 1998-2009. He is the founding Chairman of the IUAES Commission on Children, Youth and Childhood. Professor Behera is a member of Permanent Council of IUAES and in this capacity he represents India. As the Chairperson of the international commission, he has organized more than a dozen panels and sessions relating to children and youth in different international conferences and symposia. Professor Behera was the Coordinator of the Symposium titled “Everyday Experiences of Children in Asia-Pacific” of the international conference Asia-Pacific Childhoods held at National University of Singapore during July 17-20, 2006. He was also the Officer-at-Large of the International Sociological Association Research Committee-53 - Sociology of Childhood for the session 1998-2006. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal - Sociological Analysis (USA), Boyhood Studies (New York, USA), and Practicing Anthropology (USA), Acta Academica (South Africa), Wheelock International Journal of Children, Families, and Social Change (USA). Professor Behera is also a member of Advisory Board of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide (Greenwood Publishing House, USA) and Global Gutter Press (Cambridge, UK). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journals:Oriental Anthropology and Journal of Social Sciences. Professor Behera is in the Executive Board of the Centre for India Study at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a member of Advisory Committee of the international organization “Knowing Children”. Berhampur University signed seven MoUs (five with overseas Universities and two with Indian Institutes) under his initiative. He was the Director of the UGC Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy of Sambalpur University. He is also presently a member of the Advisory Committee of the ICSSR-ERC, Kolkata. He is the Vice-President of the Institute for Social Research and Applied Anthropology, India. He has been an accessor of NAAC, Bengaluru. He has already served as chairman of NAAC Peer Team on couple of occasions. Professor Behera was the chief organizer of the IUAES Inter-congress (international conference) on “Children and Youth in a Changing World” held in Bhubaneswar in 2012 which was attended by 300 participants from 48 countries. Seventeen scholars have already received their Ph.D. degree and one her D.Litt. degree working under the supervision of Professor Behera.

Address:

Professor Deepak Kumar Behera

Former Vice Chancellor, Berhampur University

Professor, Dept. of Anthropology

Sambalpur University

Sambalpur-768 019

Odisha, India

Email: <behera.dk@gmail.com>

Berhampur University on Path of Progress

Undergrads to have uniform syllabus in Odisha

2016-07-15T05:15:00.002-07:00

Professor Deepak Kumar Behera : Undergrads to have uniform syllabus 2016-2017

2016-07-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

Prof.Deepak Kumar Behera address :Odisha state universities Vice-chancellors and educationists attend the workshop at Berhampur University

A common syllabus for undergraduate courses under choice-based credit system (CBCS) is expected to be introduced in the coming academic session in Odisha, said Deepak Kumar Behera, vice-chancellor of Berhampur University.
He inaugurated a two-day workshop, organised by higher education department and Berhampur University on Monday.
Seven vice chancellors - Ashok Das (Utkal University), Chitta Ranjan Tripathy (Sambalpur University), Siba Prasad Adhikari (Fakir Mohan University), Prafulla Chandra Mishra (North University), Prakash Sarangi (Ravenshaw University) and Gangadhar Panda (Sanskrit University) - participated in the workshop.
Director of vocational education Rosnara Begum, chairman of PG councils, comptroller of examinations of all the universities, course coordinators of all the streams also attended the meet.
Experts are discussing on a common syllabus and regulations for undergraduate courses under CBCS and would prepare a report tomorrow, which will be presented to the state government. "We will finalise the modalities within one month," said Deepak Kumar Behera.
As University Grants Commission (UGC) has made introduction of CBCS as mandatory, we hope this will help students find their choices, Berhampur University VC said.
The VCs discussed the issue in the inaugural function at the senate hall. Behera stressed the need to bring reform and development of higher education.
Chitta Ranjan Tripathy said the courses should be comprehensive and easily understood. Vice-chancellor of Fakir Mohan University emphasised the need for increase in the course fee structure of the universities to sustain them.
Ravenshaw University vice-chancellor suggested that dissertation be made optional due to shortage of faculty members. North Odisha University VC said that a common minimum programme be chalked out.
Director of vocational education Rosnara Begum suggested that the nomenclature of courses must be changed to skill-based education.

Celebration all over with Joy in achieving NAAC -A Grade by BU : Prof.Deepak Kumar Behera

2016-07-13T01:13:00.005-07:00

Celebration all over with Joy : Berhampur University in achieving NAAC -A Grade

Prof.Deepak Kumar Behera: BU to start new departments from 2017

2016-07-13T00:58:00.000-07:00

As per the recent Syndicate decisions Vice-Chancellor .Prof. Deepak Kumar Behera told media persons that Berhampur University shall start new courses at Masters level in Telugu, Gender studies, Pharmacy,Disaster management studies

Berhampur University is the first State University in Odisha to receive NAAC -A Grade

2016-06-11T03:40:00.000-07:00

Berhampur University is the first State University in Odisha to receive NAAC -A Grade

Prof.Deepak Kumar Behera, Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor Berhampur University

Vice-Chancellor's Presentation before NAAC Peer Team

Interaction with BU distinguished alumni- Dr,Pradeep Panigraghy MoS .Higher education, Govt odisha