Safwan Amir

Assistant Professor

PhD (Madras Institute of Development Studies)

Research Interests: Anthropology of religion; sociology of caste; anthropology of ethics, historical anthropology; ethnography; Indian Ocean; Islam and South Asia.

Mary Ann Chacko

Assistant Professor

EdD (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Research Interests: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies, Gender, Citizenship, Ethnography

Sudeep Chakravarti

Professor of Practice and Chair, Communication Programme

BA (Honours) (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Foreign Policy, South Asian Affairs, Indian Ocean Affairs, Geo-economics, Internal Security, Intersection of Democracy and Development, Northeast India, Eastern South Asia, Intersection of Business and Human Rights

Kasturi Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: International Relations Theory, International Organisations, Historical Justice, Genocide and Genocide Denial

Suchismita Das

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: Anthropology of the State, Conservation and Development, Climate Change, Tourism, Indigeneity, Borders and Frontiers, Multispecies Ethnography, Environmental History.

Aditi Deo

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indiana University)

Research Interests: Performance Practice, Technologies, Pedagogies, Circulation And Heritage.

Nithin George

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Visual attention, Perception, Psychophysics, Perceptual Learning

Darshini Mahadevia

Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: Urban Studies, Human And Gender Development, Poverty And Inequality And Climate Change.

Khusdeep Kaur Malhotra

Assistant Professor

PhD (Temple University)

Research Interests: Precarity and Belonging, Geographies of Political Violence, Spatiality of Religion, Production of Geographic Knowledge

Leya Mathew

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Liberalization, aspiration, mothering, youth, gender, migration

Mona G. Mehta

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts

PhD (University of Chicago)

Research Interests: Cultural politics of urban transformations, Youth aspirations, Middle class politics, Democracy and its vulnerabilities

Mona G. Mehta is Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts at the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University. She is a political scientist (PhD, University of Chicago) with research interests in urban transformations, democracy and middle class politics in the context of Gujarat and India at large. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the cultural politics of urban transformations and youth aspirations in post-liberalisation India. Her book explores what we can learn about India’s urbanisation by examining the trajectories of pastoralists or maldharis, who have increasingly settled into urban spaces, and their strategies to navigate the precarious urban informal economy. Her previous work explored the vulnerability and complicity of democratic and civic spaces in the production of exclusionary politics. Her academic writings have been published in journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Contemporary South Asia and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Professor Mehta has previously taught in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Scripps College in Claremont, USA (2010-2012) and in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (2012-2020).

Rachna Mishra

Assistant Professor

PhD (Delhi University)

Research Interests: Resilience, Child Protection, Psychosocial Interventions for Youth, Positive Youth Development

Keita Omi

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Utah)

Research Interests: International Relations (IR), Government Secrecy, Comparative Politics (CP), Asian Politics (Myanmar and India), Ethnography, Political Psychology, Undergraduate Pedagogy

Shilpa Pandit

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Madras)

Research Interests: Leveraging technology for mental health in rural India, lay counselors for health, adolescents and youth, social entrepreneurs/change makers among youth, music and the sense of surprise/wonder/awe/adbhuta, visualization and meditation, the phenomenology of being ‘present’/‘ here and now’, neuro-phenomenology of advanced meditation states, social psychology and law

Chakravarthi Rangarajan

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Maya Ratnam

Assistant Professor

PhD (Johns Hopkins University)

Research Interests: Environmental History And Anthropology of India, With Particular Reference To Indigenous And Resource-Dependent Communities.

Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive and Existential Psychology, Experimental Folk-psychology

Rucha Sarwate

Assistant Professor of Practice

PhD (Savitribai Phule Pune University)

Research Interests: Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychodiagnostics, Mindfulness and Presence-Based Approaches of Psychotherapy, Buddhist Psychology

Ramadhar Singh

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (Purdue University)

Research Interests: Organisational Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, Research Methods

Divita Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)

Research Interests: Cognition - Emotion Interaction; Emotion; Visual Attention

Neelanjan Sircar

Associate Professor

PhD (Columbia University)

Research Interests: Political Behaviour, Elections, Welfare Delivery, Political Economy, Applied Statistics