Dr. Samayita Banerjee

Samayita Banerjee is a historian and archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology and spatial history. Before joining Manipal Institute of Liberal arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, where she worked with a team to conduct geospatial research on 100+ archaeological heritage sites for the development of KASTURI: A National Geospatial Heritage Platform in collaboration with ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). She is also a Research Assistant on the Bandhavgarh Archaeological Project under the Centre for Interdisciplinary Archaeological Research (Ashoka University) contributing 8+ field seasons of archaeological survey, satellite imagery analysis, and spatial modelling in central India. Samayita was a UNESCO-Sahapedia Project Fellow (2017–2018), working on heritage protection and preservation initiatives.

She has also served as a Teaching Fellow at Ashoka University across multiple semesters. Her doctoral research focused on the landscape archaeology of the Bengal delta and the Sundarbans. Samayita graduated from Presidency College, Kolkata and did her post-graduation and MPhil from the University of Delhi before completing her PhD from Ashoka University.