Faculty Profile

Soumya Saha is an Assistant Professor (on contract) of Political Science in the Xavier Law School. He has previously worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, as a University Junior Research Fellow at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata, and as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Law, University of Calcutta. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from WBNUJS, Kolkata. He has completed his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Presidency University, Kolkata. He has also worked as a Research investigator in the project "Discoursing the Homeless Elderly: Tropes, Desires and Containment," sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). His research interests include Citizenship Law, Indian Politics and Political Theory, on which he has presented and written papers, and book chapters.

• MA in Political Science
• B.A. (Hons) Political Science

• Assistant Professor (on contract), St. Xavier's University, Kolkata from July 2025- till present
• Assistant Professor, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata from October 2022- July 2025

• Head, Department of Political Science, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata.
• Academic Coordinator, Department of Political Science, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata.
• Examination Coordinator, Department of Political Science, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata.

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• Qualified UGC-NET in June and December 2019