Research and teaching interest: Broader field of International Relations with a particular focus on Asian security issues and regional connectivity, area studies including Japanese studies and South Asia Politics, India's strategic relationships and democratic resilience, recently, focusing on the concept of Indo-Pacific strategic environment. Linguistic tool of research : Knowledge of Japanese language.
Madhuchanda Ghosh has conducted research for extended spells in Japan where she interviewed many high profile dignitories including the former Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shinzo Abe.
· B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science, St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta University), India
· M.A. in International Relations, Jadavpur University , Kolkata, India
· Ph.D. in International Relations, Jadavpur University, India
Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Award, 2022
Japan Foundation Post Doctoral Award (Long Term) 2014
Japan Foundation Post Doctoral Award (Short Term) 2011
Sasakawa Tokyo Foundation SYLFF Ph.D Fellowship Award 2004-2007
Sasakawa Tokyo Foundation SYLFF Fellows Mobility Award 2006
Madhuchanda Ghosh was educated at St. Xavier's College and Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She earned her PhD. under the prestigious doctoral fellowship program of SYLFF Tokyo Foundation from Jadavpur University with an extensive field research in Japan, as a visiting fellow at the Graduate School of Political Science of Waseda University, Tokyo (2006).
Her passion for global affairs goes back to high school, when she first became interested in understanding international relations and different cultures. A formative moment came in 2002, when she was selected by the Japanese Embassy to represent India at the South Asian Youth Forum in Japan. In Tokyo, she had the opportunity to meet Prince Akishino and his wife at the Imperial Palace. These early experiences, combined with the cultural exposure she had growing up—her father, Kishor Ghosh, traveled to Japan almost every year for sitar concerts—inspired her to learn Japanese and ultimately pursue doctoral research on India-Japan relations.
In 2018 she went to the United States under the prestigious IVLP Fellowship program in the study tour on US Foreign Policy and Decision Making Process and the rich academic experience inpired her to apply for Fulbright research program in 2021. She moved to a fellowship under the Fulbright Program to the United States and was based in Indiana University, briefly, and thereafter Harvard University for much of the research period during 2022.
Research is primarily focused on Asian security affairs. Dr. Ghosh had very enriching research experiences as visiting Japan Foundation scholar during both long term and short term tenures at the post doctoral level and also during her doctoral research period as Tokyo Foundation's SYLFF Fellow in Japan at Waseda University. A part of her research work in Japan as a visiting doctoral fellow was published in the journal of Asian Survey, of the California University Press.
The highly rewarding research experience which she had at Harvard University during the Fulbright research program inspired her to publish a book in 2024.
She teaches International Relations, including courses on Global Security, Indo-Pacific studies in the Post Graduate level and Course on Japan's foreign policy and Comparative Politics in the Undergraduate level.
She has acted as the Nodal Person for Presidency University-Sciences Po. Paris Exchange Program for over a decade.
Supervised Ph.D candidates registered at Presidency University and presently supervising four doctoral scholars.
Selected Publications
Pant and Ghosh (eds.) India and Japan: A Natural Partnership in the Indo-Pacific, Orient Blackswan (2024)
Ghosh M., Kothari R. and Yamamoto T. (eds.), (2013) US Policy Towards China, India and Japan: New Challenges and Prospects, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi,
Ghosh, M. (2011)· Monograph entitled Japan in India’s Look East Policy, published by Department of International Relations of Jadavpur University
Ghosh, M. and Mitra D. (eds.) (2009) India’s Foreign Policy : The Changing Dynamics,
Ghosh, M. and Mitra D. (eds.) (2008) India’s Look East Policy : The Emerging Trends.
Newspaper articles
Japan Times : Modi's Focus on India-Japan relationship, August 25, 2014
Japan News Yomuri Shimbun : India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Renewed Focus on Peace and Security in Asia December 9, 2015
Essays, research articles, and chapters (selected)
Ghosh, M. (2018), The Indian Perspective of Japan's Security Policy in Voss and Midford (eds.) Japan's New Security Partnerships, Manchester University Press
Ghosh, M. (2017), India's Economic Dynamism in Takenori Horimoto (ed.) Introduction to the history of India-Japan relations, Tokyo University Press
· Ghosh, M. (2012). India and Japan: A New Economic Partnership, in Rajkumar Kothari (ed.), India and the World: Confronting Challenges of the Twenty First Century, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi
Ghosh, M. (2009) India’s Foreign Policy in the New Century : Challenges and Possibilities, in Mitra D. and Ghosh M. (eds) India’s Foreign Policy : The Changing Dynamics, ICFAI University Press
Ghosh, M. (2009) Nationalism and the Paradoxes of Globalisation, in Arnab Bhattacharya (ed.), Nationalism :Theory Formations and Future, ICFAI University Press
Ghosh, M. (2009) Revisiting Japan’s Policy in Globalisation, in Mitra D. (ed.) Globalisation and its Interface: Developed World and the Growing Economies, ICFAI University Press.
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