Full Time Faculty

Manohar Kumar


Head, Assistant Professor
Room No. B-207
(R & D Block)

Email: manohar.kumar@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 557

Research Interests: Ethics of digital dissent, digital citizenship, whistleblowing, civil disobedience, secrecy, and epistemic injustice.

Aasim Khan
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-202
(R & D Block)

Email: aasim @iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 463

Research Interests: Public sphere, Digital Citizenship and Civic Media in India

Gaurav Arora
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-206
(R & D Block)

Email: gaurav@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 547

Research Interests: Natural Resource & Agricultural Economics, Ecological Economics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Applied Game Theory, Spatial Analyses, Remote Sensing

Gayatri Nair
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. B-212
(R & D Block)

Email: gayatri@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907362

Research Interests: Urban informal labour and livelihood patterns with an emphasis on the question of technology, caste and gender

Kiriti Kanjilal
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-208
(R & D Block)

Email: kanjilal@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 558

Research Interests: Microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization, environmental economics and behavioral economics

Mrinmoy Chakrabarty
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. A-202
(R & D Block)

Email: mrinmoy@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907363

Research Interests: Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, Visual-Spatial Cognition, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Learning-Memory

Nishad Patnaik
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. A-205
(R & D Block)

Email: nishad@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907364

Research Interests: Kantian transcendental Idealism, Husserlian phenomenology, Social and Political Philosophy

Paro Mishra
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-209
(R & D Block)

Email: paro.mishra @iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 570

Research Interests: Demographic Anthropology, Family and Kinship, Transnationalism, Gender and Technology and Media Representation

Praveen Priyadarshi
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. A-203
(R & D Block)

Email: praveen@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907359

Research Interests: Distinctiveness of everyday political practices in new urban spaces.

Rakesh Chaturvedi
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-205
(R & D Block)

Email: rakesh@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 535

Research Interests: Communication and Cooperation in Games, Political Economy and Market Design

Shireen Mirza
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. A-204
(R & D Block)

Email: shireen@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907360

Research Interests: Waste, Anthropocene; Climate Change; Sociology of Risk, Science, Technology & Society; Stigma and Contamination; Labour and Ritual Practice

Smriti Singh
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. B-211
(R & D Block)

Email: smriti@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907361

Research Interests: Social Media, Information Technology and Urban Middle Class, Virtual Community and Solidarity, Privacy, Surveillance and Information

Sonia Baloni Ray
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-210
(R & D Block)

Email: sonia@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 424

Research Interests: Role of attention in visual processing, studying mechanisms of emotion and motion perception

Souvik Dutta
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. B-203
(R & D Block)

Email: souvik@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907536

Research Interests: Political economy, microfinance and economics of digital marketing

Venkata Ratnadeep Suri
Assistant Professor (SSH)
Room No. B-204
(R & D Block)

Email: ratan.suri@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 26907 445

Research Interests: Knowledge work contexts, health contexts, information seeking, and the cognition of information

Visiting Faculty

Amrit Srinivasan
Room No.
(R & D Block)

Email: amrit@iiitd.ac.in
Contact:

Research Interests: The comparative study of knowledge and culture; violence, civil society and the state; sustainability and lifestyle change; women's work, family and the professions; Information Technology and the Indian service economy.

Manohar Khushalani
Room No. B-306
(R & D Block)

Email: manohar@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907492

Research Interests: Former Director, Environment and Sociology, at the National Water Academy, Khadakwasla, & Member Secretary, National Environmental Monitoring Committee for River Valley Projects

Pankaj Vajpayee
Assistant Professor
Room No. B-207
(R & D Block)

Email: pvajpayee@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011 11 2690 7515

Research Interests: Has over 24 years of corporate experience primarily in the field of investment banking and portfolio investment advisory activities.

Payel C Mukherjee
Room No. A-219
(R & D Block)

Email: payel@iiitd.ac.in
Contact:

Research Interests: Theories of Cosmopolitanism, Home, and History of Ideas in South Asian Studies

Shweta Singh
Room No. B-306
(R & D Block)

Email: shweta.singh@iiitd.ac.in
Contact: 011-26907492

Research Interests: Theories of reasons in moral decision making, Interplay of moral particularism in Buddhist Ethics, and philosophy of critical thinking

Adjunct Faculty

Atreyee Bhattacharya

Email: atreyee.bhattacharya@colorado.edu
Website: https://atreyeebhattacharya.typepad.com/atreyee_bhattacharya/


Research Interests: Climate variability of arid and semi-arid regions, historical climate, paleoclimate, coastal erosion using corals and microplastic accumulation in coastal environments.