Visiting Fellows 2013 - 2014

The following Fellows visited the Department of Sociology in the academic session 2013-14: 

• Dr. Ambuj Sharma, Department of Philosophy, Dev Samaj College for Women, Ferozepur City, Punjab.
  5th February – 19th February, 2014 
  Areas of Interest: Social and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Gandhi, Hind swaraj, honour Killing
  Activities during visit: Participate in Punjab Today seminar,Two lectures in Political Sociology
  
  
  
• Prof. Maurice Bloch, Retd. Professor, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, UK.
  17th February – 1st of March, 2014
  Areas of Interest: Religion, kinship, economics, politics and language
  Activities during visit:
  1. Public lecture  titled “How religion came about”  on the 25th of February, 2014  at 3:15 P.M. in the Lecture Theatre, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
  2. Lecture on Department day titled “The extraordinary privilege of being an anthropologist.” on the occasion of Department Day on the 28th of February, 2014. 
  3. Two lectures in the Sociology of Religion
  
  
  
• Prof. Chandan Sharma, Department of Sociology, Tejpur Central University, Assam.
  24th February – 8th March, 2014
  Areas of Interest: Sociology of Development, Environmental Sociology, Historical Sociology, Social Movements, Identity Politics, Culture Studies, and Society and Politics of Northeast India
  
  
  
• Prof. Sonalde Desai, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland. Coordinator Demography Program in Sociology Department. Currently: Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.
  24th February – 8th March, 2014
  Areas of Interest: Health and Education Policy, Human Development, Labor Force Behaviour, Poverty and Social Inequality, Demography, Gender and Development, Adolescence