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Dr. Pallavi Das is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of History at Lakehead University's Orillia campus since 2009. She holds a Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University, USA, alongside an M.A. in Anthropology (University of Hyderabad) and B.Sc. (Osmania University). Her research focuses on environmental history of modern South Asia, colonial development policies, and contemporary people's environmental narratives. She has published in Environment and History, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and authored Colonialism, Development, and the Environment: Railways and Deforestation in British India (2015). Current projects include a book manuscript on environmental-scientific responses in India (Brill, forthcoming), SSHRC-funded climate change studies in Himalayan regions, and pandemic belief systems research.
Teaching areas include global environmental history, South Asian history, and imperialism's ecological impacts. She previously coordinated the Thunder Bay campus's History Department and taught at University of Toronto and Queen's University. Dr. Das co-founded Lakehead's Resources, Economy and Society Research Group (RESRG), supported by SSHRC funding.
Her research bridges colonial and contemporary environmental challenges, examining non-scientific community responses to ecological crises. Recent work explores how superstition influences pandemic behavior in India and connects to global debates on expert skepticism.
