Dr Sanjoy Kumar Mallik was awarded a Small Study and Research Grant (India) 2004-05, when a Lecturer at Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, to study and document terracotta relief panels in Birbhum District, West Bengal.
Dr Mallik, whose PhD was awarded from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, is now Professor of History of Art at Kala-Bhavana, Visva Bharati.