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Ankush Agarwal
Professor

ankush@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
India's official statistics, Applied Econometrics, Development Economics

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Teaching Areas:
Applied Econometrics and Development Economics

Arjun Ghosh
Professor

arjunghosh@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Digital Humanities, Performance Studies, Science and Technology Studies

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Teaching Areas:
Digital Humanities, Performance Studies, Theatre Studies, Authorship, Copyright and Intellectual Property, Political Communication and Science and Technology Studies

Arudra Burra
Associate Professor

burra@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, legal history

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Teaching Areas:
Social and Political philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Critical thinking, Moral literacy and moral choice, mind, machines and language.

Bharti Puri
Associate Professor

bpuri@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Philosophy of Culture and History, Moral and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Thought and Intellectual History, Deep Ecology, Buddhism/and Politics, Exile and Travel, Religion/and Politics, Religion in East Asia, Peace Studies, Tibet/Tibetan Literature and Politics, Ethnicities and Margins, Culture, Religion and Politics in Ladakh, Children and Literature

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Teaching Areas:
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Intellectual History, Philosophy of History, Buddhism/and Politics, Deep Ecology/ Environmental
Ethics, Critical Thinking, Concept of Exile, Peace Studies.

Jayan Jose Thomas
Professor

jayan@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Issues related to development, mainly labour, industrialisation and the macroeconomy

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Teaching Areas:
Macroeconomics, Indian economic development, international economics, and planning and development

Naveen Thayyil
Associate Professor

nthayyil@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Law, Techno-science and Democratization, Environmental law and policy, Human rights jurisprudence, Legal and democratic theory

Academic Background:
Ph.D., University of Tilburg, Netherlands

Teaching Areas:
Legal theory and Jurisprudence, Law and Technology, Science Technology and Society, Sociological Approaches to Law and International and Comparative Approaches to Environmental law

Paroma Sanyal
Associate Professor

psanyal@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Phonology, Morpho-Syntax

Academic Background:
Ph.D., EFLU, Hyderabad, India

Teaching Areas:
Generative Linguistics, Optimality Theory, Distributive Morphology

Reetika Khera
Professor

reetika@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Social policy in India, including health and nutrition, education, social protection, employment, poverty, inequality, impact of digital technologies in welfare

Academic Background:
Ph.D., University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Teaching Areas:
Development economics, public economics, social policy

Richa Kumar
Associate Professor

richa@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Sociology of Agriculture, Sociology of Food and Nutrition, Science and Technology Studies, Rural and Agrarian Policy

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Teaching Areas:
Sociology of Agriculture, Sociology of Environment and Development, Science and Technology Studies, Technology and Governance, Rural and Agrarian Policy

Sanil V
Professor

sanil@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
General Philosophy

Academic Background:
Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Teaching Areas:
General philosophy

Sourabh B Paul
Associate Professor

sbpaul@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
S​Empirical development with special focus on labour market discrimination, food preference, nutrition, health, applied econometrics

Academic Background:
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Canada

Teaching Areas:
Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics, Health Economics, Discrimination

Viva Arora
Professor

aurora@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Development, Political Sociology, Democracy and Governance, New Media, and Digital Culture, Sociology of Marginalized Groups, Sociology of Religion [Indigenous religion, Hinduism and Buddhism], Environmental Sociology, Visual Methods of Social Research, Photography and Visual Anthropology

Academic Background:
D.Phil./Ph.D., University of Oxford, England

Teaching Areas:
Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Family and Kinship, Urban Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of India, and Gender and Society

Misria Shaik Ali
Postdoctoral Fellow

misria@hss.ittd.ac.inac.in

Research Areas:
Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Science Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Environmental and Multispecies Justice, Study of Ignorance/Agnotology, Public Understanding of Science, Sensory Studies, Violence and Alterity.

Academic Background:
PhD (Science and Technology Studies), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York

Teaching Areas:
Social Consequences of Science and Technology; Epistemology; Public Policy; Environment and Society; Media, Culture and Society.

Alishah Ali

huz238408@iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Digital Humanities-GLAM, Urban Cultural Landscapes-Shahjahanabad, Digital Heritage Preservation, Community led Heritage Management.

Academic Background:
South Asia Festivals Academy, Edinburgh Napier University, 2022
Conservation, Museum Studies and Heritage Management from Delhi Institute of Research and Heritage Management, GGSIPU, 2020
History Honours, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi

Ananthu ​R A

ananthu123@gmail.com

Research Areas:
Science, Technology and Society

Academic Background:
University of Hyderabad (M.A. , M.Phil. Philosophy);
Maharaja's College (B.A Philosophy)

Arpita Rachel Abraham

huz258347@iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Technology, Politics of Space/Time, Speed, Ideology & Subjectivity

Academic Background:
MA Political Science, University of Delhi;
BA (Hons.) Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College, DU

Bompu Gamlin

huz258359@iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Political and philosophical implications of digital technologies for freedom and democratic agency in the attention age, attention economy, surveillance capitalism, algorithmic governance.

Academic Background:
BA Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi;
LLB, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi;
MA Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Krishan Chaurisiya

krishna.english11@gmail.com

Research Areas:
Phonology, Phonological acquisition, SLA of phonology, language policy, education, machine learning

Academic Background:
MA Linguistics, University of Delhi, 2016-18

Naincy Sachan

naincysachan@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Agri-Tech, Rural sociology, repair and refurbishing

Academic Background:
Integrated masters in English Studies (interdisciplinary) DoHSS IIT Madras

Nayan Kumar Soren

nayansoren@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Labour Economics, Development Economics

Academic Background:
M.A Economics, Delhi School of Economics;
B.Sc Physics Honours, St. Stephen's College

Neha Arya

huz208211@hss.iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Labour Economics, Development Economics

Academic Background:
M.A Economics, Delhi School of Economics;
B.Sc Physics Honours, St. Stephen's College

Thomson C

thomson.chakramakkil@gmail.com

Research Areas:
Technology, Neoliberal Governmentality and Posthumanism

Academic Background:
MA in English, EFLU Hyderabad

Tilak Bharadwaj

huz248356@iitd.ac.in

Research Areas:
Colonial railways: accidents, changing urbanscape, railway labour, and railway sounds

Academic Background:
B.A. (Hons.) History - St. Stephen's College
M.A. History - St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

Mahendra Shahare

PhD Thesis:
Emergence of Synthetic Biology: Expectations, Resistance and Legitimation
(2020)


Chavi Asrani

PhD Thesis:
Adoption and Diffusion of Digital Communications in India: An Empirical Study (2020)

Chinju Jhony

PhD Thesis:
Female Employment in Indian Manufacturing: A Study of the Garment Industry in Bangalore and the NCR Region (2022)

Manujata

PhD Thesis:
Tone and Aspiration correlation in Punjabi. An algorithm using Harmonic Serialism (2022)

Abhigya

PhD Thesis:
Constituting Risk: Pesticides, Regulatory Science and Farmers in Western Uttar Pradesh (2024)

Nishtha Bharati

PhD Thesis:
Artificial Intelligence in Health care: Precision Fantasies and Contextual Ruptures (2024)

Angarika Rakshit

PhD Thesis:
Manufacturing Employment Growth in India since the 2000s: Firm Size, Flexibility and Informality (2024)

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    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
    Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016