Social Sciences
The contemporary social world we collectively inhabit is a complex one, beset with economic, ecological, social and political challenges. Faculty members and students at the Social Sciences division address these challenges through a combination of institutional analysis at the global, national and local scales, and the study of individual and collective behaviour in a variety of contexts.
Comprising disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Political Sciences, Psychology, Sociology and Urban Studies, the Division brings together various academic traditions of enquiry in the social sciences, including experimental approaches, statistical analysis of survey data, ethnographic fieldwork, historical case studies, and mathematical modelling. Such a synoptic view of social processes helps government institutions, corporations, and non-profits formulate effective policies and interventions.
Academics
Programmes
The Division of Social Sciences is a significant contributor to three undergraduate majors of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) programme: Economics, Psychology, and Social and Political Sciences. The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics is jointly administered with the Amrut Mody School of Management. The Master of Arts in Economics programme is administered by the Amrut Mody School of Management.
Admissions
Education at Ahmedabad University offers intellectual rigour, deep focus on research, unique opportunities for academic collaboration and creative momentum. As new students, you join a vibrant, talented community committed to academic excellence and personal growth.
To know more details about admissions, please visit our Undergraduate Admissions page and Graduate Admissions webpage.
People
The People
Faculty
PhD and Post Doctoral Fellows
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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.
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Mary Ann Chacko
Assistant Professor
EdD (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Research Interests: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies, Educational Anthropology, Gender, Religion
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Sudeep Chakravarti
Executive Director, Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures; Professor of Practice; and Chair, Communication Programme
BA (Honours), St Stephen's College (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
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Kasturi Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: International Relations Theory, International Organisations, Historical Justice, Genocide and Genocide Denial
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Rupesh Chillale
Assistant Professor
PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Auditory Perception, System Neuroscience, Brain and Music, Artificial Intelligence, Brain-Computer-Interface
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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.
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Aditi Deo
Assistant Professor
PhD (Indiana University)
Research Interests: Performance Practice, Technologies, Pedagogies, Circulation And Heritage
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Nithin George
Assistant Professor
PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar)
Research Interests: Visual attention, Perception, Psychophysics, Perceptual Learning
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Darshini Mahadevia
Professor
PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Research Interests: Urban Studies, Human And Gender Development, Poverty And Inequality And Climate Change.
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Khusdeep Kaur Malhotra
Assistant Professor
PhD (Temple University)
Research Interests: Precarity and Belonging, Political Violence, Cartographies of Religion, Production of Geographic Knowledge, GIS, Religious Urbanism
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Leya Mathew
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Research Interests: Liberalization, aspiration, mothering, youth, gender, migration
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Mona Mehta
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Arts
PhD (University of Chicago)
Research Interests: Urban transformations and the remaking of city spaces, Youth aspirations and Skill development discourses, Democracy and its vulnerabilities and the political thought of M. K. Gandhi
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Rachna Mishra
Assistant Professor
PhD (Delhi University)
Research Interests: Resilience, Child Protection, Psychosocial Interventions for Youth, Positive Youth Development
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Chakravarthi Rangarajan
Distinguished University Professor
PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
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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.
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Nagireddy Neelakanteswar Reddy
Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)
Research Interests: Evolutionary (theoretical) Psychology, Existential Psychology, Critical Thinking in Psychology
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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
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Ramadhar Singh
Distinguished University Professor
PhD (Purdue University)
Research Interests: Organisational Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, Research Methods
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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
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Divita Singh
Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Gandhinagar)
Research Interests: Cognition - Emotion Interaction; Emotion; Visual Attention
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Neelanjan Sircar
Associate Professor
PhD (Columbia University)
Research Interests: Political Behaviour, Elections, Welfare Delivery, Political Economy, Applied Statistics
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Ajita Srivastava
Assistant Professor
PhD (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany)
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ecology, Decision Making, Urbanisation, Social Change, Quantitative Social Measurement
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Prakhar Srivastava
Assistant Professor
PhD (Jamia Millia Islamia)
Research Interests: Social Connection, Belonging, Loneliness, Intergroup Relations, Cross-group Friendship, Social Cohesion, Global South Psychology, Open Science