Head of Department, Sociology,  Since July 2007

Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Since December 2009

Acting Head, Department of Adult and continuing Education and Extension, Since February 2010

Gender; Kinship; Care; State and Citizenship; Social Movements; Agrarian Structures; Sociology of Emotion; Fieldwork Methodology; Comparative Sociology.

Supervision of awarded Doctoral Thesis:

Abraham, Janaki:  2007. Gender, Status and Class: A Sociological Study of the Thiyyas. 

Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress:

Chowdhury, Akshay Kr..   Dowry among the Maithil Brahmins: Aspects of Change and Continuity.

Ray, Subhadeepta. Recast(e)ing Science: A Sociological Study of Resaerch Practices in Genetics.

Yadavendu, Mritunjay Kr.., Caste and Patriarchy in Bihar: A Sociological Analysis.

Kakar, Kanika.  Tradition, Modernity and Gender in the Globalising Context: A Study of the Weaving Community of Chanderi.

Khurana, Sakshi. Work Family, Community and Neighbourhood:  Lives of Women Informal Workers.

Supervision of awarded M.Phil dissertations

Khurana, Sakshi. 2009. The Impact of Liberalization on the Lives of Industrial Labour in India

Chowdhury, Shruti. 2008. Honour in North India:  A Sociological Review.

Tathagatan R. 2008. Social Movements and the Construction of Political Identities in the Andean Region.

Kakar, Kanika.  2005. Empowerment of Women in India: A Study of the Role of the Indian State.

Bapna, Geetika. 2005. Kinship and Female Sexuality in Postcolonial Tamil Societies – A Critical Overview of the Anthopological Literature.

Majumdar, Anindita.  2004. Rites of Passage and Interpersonal Kin Relations in Bengal.

Choudhary, Akshay Kr. 2003. A Sociological Study of Marriage among the Brahmins of Mithila.

Tambe, Anagha. Prostitution in Colonial India: A Review of the Debate.

Dasgupta, Simanti. 1997. The Absent Wo(Man): A sociological Study of the Veil in South-West Asia.

Sivapurna, J. 1992. Violence against Women: A Selective Review.

Loveridge, Patricia. 1992. A Study of Selected Women’s Organisations in India.

Supervision of M.Phil dissertations, under progress:

Satya Prakash. (submitted 2010) Gender and Environment:  Exploring Issues and Perspectives in India.

Bhawna Kataria. Gender and Labour in Global Work Places

Vasundhara Bhojvaid. Formation of Publics around the R.T.I.

‘Childcare and elderly care in India and The Netherlands:  Internal and cross-cultural comparisons’, at a workshop on Long term care: Family support, professional care-work and social policies held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, under the European Studies Programme, University of Delhi, Department of Sociology. June 2010. 

‘Care bargains and care practices: A social and political economy of care in India’ in a lecture series on Gender Issues in Indian Science at the The National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. March, 2010.

“Love, care, and relatedness: A research proposal” at the Inaugural Workshop of the European Studies Programme, at the University of Delhi, January 2010.

Conducted a workshop on developing a research design for a study on the sex ratio and on Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research, in December 2009, at the BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

“Conceptual Concerns in Care” at a workshop entitled, ‘Who Cares for the Child? Gender and the Care Regime in India’ on 7-9 December, 2009 with ISST and UNICEF.

“Mapping the care diamond in India” at a workshop entitled, ‘Who Cares for the Child? Gender and the Care Regime in India’ on 7-9 December, 2009 with ISST and UNICEF.

“Gendered familialism, social policy, and child care in India” at a at the Symposium on ‘Political Economy of Care in Asian Societies’ held as part of the Kyoto University GCOE symposium Family and Intimacy in Asia, November 2009.

“The other side of diversity or cultural pluralism is as patriarchy does”. Presented at the The 3^rd  NRCT – ICSSR Joint Seminar on ‘Cultural Pluralism and Diversity  in Contemporary Asian Societies’, held at  Chiangmai, Thailand, August, 2009.  Another version of this paper was presented at the 35th All India Sociological Conference, Research Committee 03: Economy, Polity and Society, held at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, October  2009

“In Search of love: Becoming a Single Parent in Netherlands”, Sociological Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. September, 2009.

“Caught between a rock and a hard place: The risks of passion and the security of the mundane” at an international workshop on ‘The Politics of Passion’, held at the University of Potsdam, July 2009.

“State, Market, Family: The Care Regime in India”. IHC – ISST Gender Policy Forum, India Habitat Centre, May 2009.

“Stratified Familialism: The Care Diamond in India”, at a conference on ‘The Political and Social Economy of Care’ organised by UNRISD and the Barnard Centre for Research on Women at Barnard College, New York, March 2009.

“Care without Carers? State Policy in India” at a session on ‘Who Cares? The Role of Families, States, Markets and Communities in Care Provision.  New Evidence from UNRISD Research’.  Committee on the Status of Women parallel event, UN Headquarters, New York.  March 2009. 

“Dispensing with daughters: Economy, Society, Technology in North India”.  University Public Lectures, at the Convention Centre, University of Delhi, 15 January 2009.

Special Lecture entitled: “Love, Marriage and Relatedness” at the National Conference entitled, ‘Renegotiating Intimacies: Marriage, Sexualities, Living Practices’, organized by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata on Dec 21-23, 2008.

“The Care Diamond: State Social Policy and the Market in India”, paper presented at the third conference of the UNRISD project on ‘The Social and Political Economy of Care: An Eight Country Study’, held at UNRISD, Geneva, October 2008.

“Paid Care Workers in India- Domestic Workers and Anganwadi workers: Case Studies”, paper presentation at the third conference of the UNRISD project on ‘The Social and Political Economy of Care: An Eight Country Study’, held at UNRISD, Geneva, October 2008.

Key-note speaker at a workshop on the theme of Violence against Girls organized by the State Resource Centre, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana for coordinators of Women’s Development Cells of colleges across Haryana in February, 2008.

“Structural Contexts of Adverse Sex Ratio” at a national seminar on Emerging Trends and Structural Contexts of Adverse Sex Ratios, at ICSSR, New Delhi, sponsored by Action Aid India-IDRC, December 2007. 

“Comparing across continents:  Care in The Netherlands and India” at a conference on Perspectives of cultural studies. New research developments,  held at Freie Universität, Berlin, October 2007. 

“The Political Economy of Care in Liberalised India: Demographic, Political and Economic Trends” at the  International workshop on “The Social and Political Economy of Care”, UNRISD, Geneva,  August 2007 (With N. Pillai).

“The analysis of time use data: Work/care regimes and the care diamond”, at  International workshop on The Social and Political Economy of Care, UNRISD, Geneva, August 2007, (With N. Pillai).

“Gender and Methodological Issues in Ethnography”, at the UGC Refresher Course on Gender Studies: Contemporary Challenges, organised by Women’s Studies Development Centre in collaboration with Academic Staff College, University of Delhi in March, 2008. 

2008.  Organised an international seminar on Marriage in Globalizing Contexts: Exploring Change and Continuity in South Asia. With Prof. Ravinder Kaur (HSS, IIT Delhi) and Dr. Shalini Grover, IEG Delhi.  Funded by ICSSR and UNICEF.

UNRISD funded “The Social and Political Economy of Care in India”

Action-Aid/IDRC study:  Adverse Sex Ratio in Select Districts of  Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab.

IDPAD –funded research project on "The impact of a changing social welfare system on relations within marriage, family, and social networks in the Netherlands and the public debate on this process". 

Indian Sociological Society,

Indian Association of Women’s Studies

Editorial Board, Sociological Bulletin (2007-2009)

Editorial Board, Sociological Inquiry (since 2010)

Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity

Member of governing bodies of various colleges of the University of Delhi and other institutions, of technical committees of various institutes, and selection committees of universities and other statutory bodies

Member, Managing Committee, Indian School of Women;s Development and Studies

Member, Editorial Board, Women’s Equality

Life Member, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi

Articles

2010. ‘Gendering Sociological Practice: A Case Study of Teaching in the University, In B.S. Baviskar And Tulsi Patel (eds.) Understanding Indian Society- Past and Present: Essays in Honour of A.M. Shah.  New Delhi,  Orient Blackswan,

2010 ‘The Anti-Dowry Movement in Delhi’, In T. K. Oommen (ed.) Social Movements II: Concerns of Equity and Security. (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology) New Delhi, Oxford University Press,

2009. ‘The Spider’s Web:  Seeing dowry, fighting dowry’, In T. Bradley, E. Tomalin and M. Subramaniam (eds.) Dowry:  Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. New Delhi:  Women Unlimited.

2009 (With N.Neetha)  “Paid care workers in India:  Domestic workers and Anganwadi workers”, The Political and Social Economy of Care: India Research Report 4.  Geneva: UNRISD. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF?ReadForm&parentunid=0C1833CF97AC0B21C12575CC004FB067&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/0C1833CF97AC0B21C12575CC004FB067/$file/IndiaRR4rev.pdf

2009 (With N.Neetha)  “The care diamond: State social policy and the market”, The Political and Social Economy of Care: India Research Report 3.  Geneva: UNRISD. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF?ReadForm&parentunid=4177D0C917369239C1257566002EA0C7&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/4177D0C917369239C1257566002EA0C7/$file/IndiaRR3.pdf

2008 (With N.Neetha) “Analysis of the Time Use Data”, The Political and Social Economy of Care: India Research Report 2.  Geneva: UNRISD. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF?ReadForm&parentunid=7F4ECCDAEE0ED0A1C1257417002F4795&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/7F4ECCDAEE0ED0A1C1257417002F4795/$file/IndiaRR2.pdf

2008 (With N.Neetha) “The Context: Economic, demographic and social trends”, The Political and Social Economy of Care: India Research Report 1.  Geneva: UNRISD. http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF?ReadForm&parentunid=52825846F6477276C1257417002E6DCC&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/%28httpAuxPages%29/52825846F6477276C1257417002E6DCC/$file/IndiaRR1.pdf

2008 (With P. Uberoi)  “Exploring the links: Gender issues in marriage and migration”, In Marriage, Migration, and Gender.  New Delhi:  Sage.

2003, “Women’s Collective Secret to Success”, in B. Mohanty and S. Narayana (eds.), Women and Political Empowerment:  Panchayats and Women’s Economic Empowerment.  New Delhi: Insitute of Social Studies. 

(with Shakti Kak), 2003, “Gender Equity: Sex ratio, Women’s Employment and Government Priorities”, in Alternative Economic Survey: 2002-2003.  Delhi: Delhi Science Forum.

2002, “Rhetorics of Motherhood: Politics, Policy, and Family Ideologies in India”, In K.Sharma, L.Sarkar and L.Kasturi (eds.) Between Tradition, Counter-Tradition and Heresy.  Delhi: Rainbow Publications

(with Indu Agnihotri), 2001, “Tradition, the Family and the State:  Politics of the Women’s Movement in the Eighties”, in Gender and Nation. Delhi: Nehru Museum and Library.  This is a revised version of a Nehru Museum and Library occasional paper and of "Tradition, Family, and the State: The Politics of the Contem­porary Women's Movement", with I. Agnihotri, in T.V. Sathyamurthy (ed.), 1996, Social Change and Political Discourse in India: Structures of Power, Movements of Resistance: Vol. 3: Region, Religion, Caste, Gender and Culture in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

2000,"Family: Power Relations and Power Structures". In Kramarae, C & Spender, D. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge (volume 2, pp 669-674). London, New York: Routledge.

2000, "Family: Property Relations". In Kramarae, C & Spender, D. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge (volume 2, pp 674-676). London, New York: Routledge.

2000, "Reverse Anthropology?  An Indian Fieldworker in the Netherlands", IIAS Newsletter 21, Feb. 2000, p. 17.

1999, "Beyond Myths: The Social and Political Dynamics of Gender", in N. Kabeer and R. Subrahmanian (eds.), Institutions, Relations and Outcomes: A Framework and Case Studies for Gender-Aware Planning. New Delhi: Kali for Women.   Shortened Hindi version published as “Samkaaleen Bharat Mein Parivar Sanrachna”, in Sadhana Arya, Nivedita Menon and Jini Lokaneeta (eds.), 2001, Narivadi Rajneeti:  Sangharsh Ainvam Mudde.  Delhi University: Hindi Medium Implementation Board. Reprinted in M. Khullar (ed.). 2005. Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader. Delhi: Zubaan.

1996, Carla Risseeuw and Rajni Palriwala, "Shifting circles of support" in Rajni Palriwala and Carla Risseeuw (eds.), Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualising kinship and gender relations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.  Delhi: Sage.

1996, "Negotiating patriliny: Intra-household consumption and authority in Rajasthan (India)", in Rajni Palriwala and Carla Risseeuw (eds.), Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualising kinship and gender relations in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.  Delhi: Sage Publications.  This was a revised version

1993.  “Who will take of the aged? Widowhood and dependency in South Asia”,  Vena Newsletter .

1999, "Transitory Residents, Invisible Workers: Rethinking Locality and Incorporation in a Rajasthan Village", in K. Sangari and U. Chakravarti (eds.), From Myth to Market: Essays on Gender. Shimla and New Delhi: Indian Institute for Advanced Studies and Manohar.

1991, "Anthropologist and Woman: Dilemmas of a fieldworker in a Rajasthan village", in M.N. Panini (ed.), From the Female Eye: Accounts of Women Fieldworkers Studying Their Own Communities. Delhi: Hindustan Publishers.

1990, "Introduction", in L. Dube and R. Palriwala (eds.), Struc­tures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family in Asia.  New Delhi: Sage.