Academic Profile
-PhD in Sociology (Urban Studies and Politics), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai (2014 to 2020)
-MA in Social Work (Specialisation: Community Organisation and Development Practice), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2011 to 2013)
Honours and Awards
Best Faculty Award 2023 for teaching, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS
Passed National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor in Sociology, December 2014 organised by University Grants Commission (UGC), India
Passed National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor in Public Administration, December 2013 organised by University Grants Commission (UGC), India
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor (Fulltime)- Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai: March 2021- present
Taught courses: Sociology of the Future, Citizenship and Migration Studies, Sociology of Environment and Development, Classical Sociological Thought, Sociology of India, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Research Methods, Independent Research Project (IRP), Concepts in Political Science, Indian Constitution at work.
Assistant Professor (Visiting Faculty)- Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai: January 2020- March 2020 (One and half Years)
Teaching Assistant in HS 307 Sociology (a course for B. Tech. students) between July 2017- November 2017 (involved in paper setting, correction of the scripts and took a lecture on ‘City and citizenship in India: Changes, promises and aspirations’) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Research Experience
Editor for the peer-reviewed journal ' Emerging Scholars' started by Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- December 2021-present
Faculty In-charge for Research and Publications, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- December 2021- present
Supervision of undergraduate Capstone Projects: Total Number 2- July 2020- May 2021
Supervision of undergraduate Independent Research Projects: Total Number 39 - December 2020- present
Research Associate, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, November 2019- May 2020
Research Interests
Urban studies and politics, Public policy and governance, Social theory, Sociology of development, Political theory and Indian Politics, Philosophy of justice
Administrative and other Experience
Chairperson of Area of Social and Political Studies at Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- March 2021- present.
Member of Board of Studies, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai (New Course Outlines making for the Courses):
Sociology of India, Sociological Theory, Indian Political Environment, Gender and Sexuality, Concepts in Political Science, Citizenship and Migration Studies, Indian Constitution at Work, Global Political Environment, Sociology of the Future, History of Thought, Research Methods, Issues in Environment - April 2021- present
Faculty In-charge for the Examination, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- March 2021- present
Faculty In-charge for Student Annual Event Paperplanes, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- January- March 2022
Faculty Advisor for Millennium Fellowship, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- May 2021- present
Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority(MMRDA), Mumbai, May 2014- July 2014, as a community worker involved in facilitating poor managing solid waste management at their own in Vasi Naka, Mumbai
Department of Rural Development, Uttar Pradesh Government, October 2002-November 2007, involved in the implementation of rural development programmes at the grassroots level.
Publications
Confronting Reflexivity: Sociological trajectories of Teaching Sociology in Liberal Arts Spaces, Sociological Bulletin. Volume 72, Number 1, 2023. SAGE.
Aspirational Citizenship of Displaced Migrants in Mumbai”: Journal of Public Policy Research Vol. II Issue II (March 2017): 1-24.
Conferences Papers
Presented a co-authored paper ‘Building structures of solidarity for recognition and dignity:
A study of urban poor in Mumbai during the Covid-19 pandemic’ at Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) 2022 conference, Antwerp, September 21, 2022.
‘Electoral and social struggle mediation of the aspiration of an ‘illegal neighbourhood’ to be planned and legal: A case study of Mumbai’, in 117th Annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November 14-18, 2018
‘Claims of the poor for justice and the Right to the City in technology-driven planning in urban spaces: a case study of Mumbai’ in a academy “Infrastructures, Regions and Urbanizations”, in Transregional Academy Singapore, September 29- October 07 2018
‘Electoral politics and the planning of the Mumbai City’ in a Summer school for PhD students ‘Urban Transformations to Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia’, University of Cologne, Germany, September 17- 26 2018
Poster presentation on ‘Claims of the poor for justice and the Right to the City in technology-driven planning in urban spaces: a case study of Mumbai
in a Summer school for PhD students ‘Urban Transformations to Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia’, University of Cologne, Germany, September 17- 26 2018
‘Hopes amidst Uncertainty: Municipal election, aspiration of an ‘illegal slum’ and urban politics in Mumbai in Comparative Democratization Sections’ Emerging Scholar Research Development Workshop in Annual meeting of American Political Science Association, Boston, August 29- September 02, 2018.
‘Claims of poor for justice in the technology driven planning process in urban spaces: A case study of Mumbai’ in the national Conference “Infrastructure and the Right to the City: Perspectives from India” organised by Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata 15-16 February, 2018
‘Dilemma of electoral politics or autonomous mobilisation for recognition in threatened neighbourhood in Mumbai’ in the International Conference “Contemporary challenges to Indian state and society” organised by Christ University and National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, 15-17 November, 2017
‘Electoral politics or autonomous mobilisation, the case of Mumbai’ in the International Conference “ Research Committee (RC21) on Sociology of Regional and Urban Development of the International Sociological Association: Rethinking urban global justice under the session- Recognition, justice and critical urban theory today jointly organised by RC21 and University of Leeds, Leeds, 13-15 September, 2017
‘Autonomous mobilisation or grassroots social struggle in a threatened neighbourhood in Mumbai’, in Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS), RC21- International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies (IJURR) Summer School in Comparative Urban Studies, jointly organised by the University of Leeds and IJURR, London and Leeds, August 30- September 13, 2017
‘Aspirational Citizenship of displaced migrants in Mumbai in the national seminar “ Democracy, Development and (Re)distribution” organised by School of Public Policy and governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, 28-30 April, 2016
‘Individualisation of basic amenities in Urban India: Imposition of responsibility on poor citizens to manage their Solid Waste management in Mumbai’ in the 2nd national Young Researcher on “Researching lived experience(s): Ethnography and beyond organised by department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, 4-5 March, 2016
‘Social justice: Crisis of political organisation capability of social struggles’ in the International Conference “ Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice: Perspectives, Issues and concerns” organised by Department of Sociology, Baba Saheb BhimRao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, 15-16 February, 2016
Areas of interest
Urban Studies and politics, Public policy and governance, Social theory, Sociology of development, Political theory and Indian Politics, Philosophy of justice
