Head of the Department
Anuja Agrawal
Professor & Head
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Sociology and anthropology of family, kinship, marriage, gender, marginal people, sex work, trafficking and migration.
Faculty Members
Janaki Abraham
Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Study of kinship, gender and caste, visual anthropology and gender and space, particularly the study of towns.
Kamei Aphun
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Sociology of Ethnicity, Social Movements and Conflicts, Political Sociology, Sociology of North East India, Sociology of Tribes, Sociology of Cultural studies and Identity.
Sunil Babu C.T.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Philosophy of Social Science; Social and Political Theory; Modernity and Nation-State; Caste, Media and Political Process; History of Indian Sociology; Indian Sociological Theories; Politics of Knowledge Production; Tribe, Education and the question of Marginality.
Devi Dayal Gautam
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests:
Caste Politics, Dalit, Social Justice, Social Inclusion, Social Stratification, Dr. BR Ambedkar, Sociology of Diaspora, Indian Sociology, Sociology of Education.
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Tila Kumar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: History and sociology of sociology, dalit movements, sociology of India, subaltern studies, sociology of poverty, development and democracy.
Vikramendra Kumar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, Education, Development, Theory and Research Methodology in Anthropology/Sociology, and Economic Anthropology/Sociology.
Charu Sawhney
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Forced Migration, Gender, Ethnicity, Sociology of Education.
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Chhavi Sharma
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (IIT, Bombay)
Research Interests: Urban Sociology, study of Migrants, Studying informality, Sociological study of the platform economy
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Shashi Bhushan Singh
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Elections and Representation, Religion and Social Life, Social Movements, Economic Sociology, Ethnography
Nandini Sundar
Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Research Interests: Constitutionalism, Academic Freedom, Democracy, Law, Inequality and Agrarian Ecologies.
Sudha Vasan
Professor
Ph.D. (Yale University)
Research Interests: Sociology and anthropology of Environment, Development, Law, Social Movements, Himalayan region.
Nupurnima Yadav
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Urban ecology, Qualitative research Methods, Visual Sociology, Sociology of Religion, and Astrology in India.
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Janaki Abraham
Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Study of kinship, gender and caste, visual anthropology and gender and space, particularly the study of towns.
Anuja Agrawal
Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Sociology and anthropology of family, kinship, marriage, gender, marginal people, sex work, trafficking and migration.
Kamei Aphun
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Sociology of Ethnicity, Social Movements and Conflicts, Political Sociology, Sociology of North East India, Sociology of Tribes, Sociology of Cultural studies and Identity.
Sunil Babu C.T
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Philosophy of Social Science; Social and Political Theory; Modernity and Nation-State; Caste, Media and Political Process; History of Indian Sociology; Indian Sociological Theories; Politics of Knowledge Production; Tribe, Education and the question of Marginality.
Satish Deshpande
Professor
Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Research Interests: Caste and Class Inequalities, Contemporary Social Theory, Politics and History of the Social Sciences and South-South Interactions.
Tila Kumar
Assistant Professor
M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: History and sociology of sociology, dalit movements, sociology of India, subaltern studies, sociology of poverty, development and democracy.
Vikramendra Kumar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Sociology of Religion, education, development, theory and research methodology in Anthropology/Sociology, and Economic Anthropology/Sociology.
Rajni Palriwala
Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Gender, kinship and marriage, care, citizenship, and the state, feminist theory and politics, agrarian and development studies and comparative sociology.
Shashi Bhushan Singh
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Democratic ‘community’, religion and social life, social movements and qualitative research methodology
Nandini Sundar
Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Research Interests: Citizenship, war and counter-insurgency in South Asia, indigenous identity and politics in India, the sociology of law, and inequality.
Meenakshi Thapan
Professor
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Sociology of education, sociology of migration and gender studies.
Sudha Vasan
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Yale University)
Research Interests: Sociology and anthropology of Environment, Development, Law, Social Movements, Himalayan region.
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Retired/Former Faculty Members
Abhijit Dasgupta
Professor (Retired)
D.Phil. (University of Sussex)
Research Interests: Agrarian structure, sociology of development, and the sociology of social movements.
Meenakshi Thapan
Professor (Retired)
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Sociology of education, sociology of migration and gender studies.
Radhika Chopra
Professor (Retired)
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Militancy movements; Transnational Migration; Memory and Memorials; Gender and Masculinities; Punjab Studies; Visual cultures.
Rajni Palriwala
Professor (Retired)
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Gender, kinship and marriage, care, citizenship, and the state, feminist theory and politics, agrarian and development studies and comparative sociology.
Yasmeen Arif
Associate Professor (Resigned)
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Politics of Life, Aftermaths of Violence and Crisis, Humanitarianisms and related international law, Urban Studies, Visuality and Films, Theory and Method in Anthropology/Sociology.
Roma Chatterji
Professor (Retired)
Ph.D. (University of Delhi)
Research Interests: Illness Narratives, the Sociology of Art, Folklore.
Satish Deshpande
Professor (Retired)
Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Research Interests: Caste and Class Inequalities, Contemporary Social Theory, Politics and History of the Social Sciences and South-South Interactions.