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Dr. Anuja Agrawal
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Associate Professor |
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Department of Sociology,
University of Delhi,
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Educational Qualifications
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Ph.D.
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Ph.D. (Sociology), CSSS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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2003
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M. Phil.
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M. Phil. (Sociology), Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
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1994
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M.A. (Sociology), CSSS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
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1992
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B.A. (Hons.- Sociology), Hindu College, University Of Delhi
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1990
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Career Profile
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Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
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Associate Professor
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2008 onwards
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Department of Sociology,Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
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2005-2008
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Department of Sociology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi
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Senior Lecturer
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1999-2005
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Department of Sociology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi
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Lecturer
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1994-1999
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Areas of Specialization / Interest
Research interests span across Sociology of family, kinship, marriage, gender, marginal people, particularly denotified communities of north India. My Ph.D. work is on prostitution among the Bedia community of Rajasthan. I am also therefore interested in issues of sex work, trafficking and migration.
Subjects Taught
Post graduate level
Sociology of India, Economic and Political Sociology, Sociology of Kinship, Sociological Theory and Research Methodology (at the Undergraduate level) and Sociology of Kinship, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Education, Social Stratification and Sociological Theories.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION/PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentations
Presented a paper titled ‘Prostitution and marriage payments among the Bedias of North India’ at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyoto under the aegis of the GCOE program ‘Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21st Century Asia’ at the University of Kyoto in Japan, 15 June, 2010
Presented a paper titled “‘Buying and Selling Wives’: The Discourse on Bride Price and Dowry among the Bedias” at the International Conference on Marriage in Globalizing Contexts: Exploring Change and Continuity in South Asia’ held in IIT, New Delhi on 25-27 September 2008.
Presented a paper titled ‘The Bedia case: Implications for the debate on prostitution’ at the Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies Centre of the University of Pune, Pune on the 7th of March, 2008
Presented a paper titled ‘Ideology vs practice: The ideal of mono-normativity in a community of sex workers in India’, at the International conference on polyamory and mononormativity organised by the Department of Sociology, University of Hamburg on 4-6th November, 2005.
Awards and distinctions
Commonwealth Scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, U.K., for the year 2000-2001. During this period I was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics.
University Gold Medal by the University of Delhi in 1990 for being top among my batch of students in the B.A. (H), Sociology.
Other Activities
Visiting Faculty member at the University of Kyoto under the aegis of the GCOE program ‘Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21st Century Asia’ at the University of Kyoto in Japan for a period of one month in May-June 2010
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