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Dr. Mohinder Singh

Dr.
  Assistant Professor
     Department of Political Science, IInd Floor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007.
 
     
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     mohinder.du@gmail.com

Educational Qualifications

Political Science

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

2003

Phd. Thesis: Critique of Modern Time-Consciousness in the Works of Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin

Political Science

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

1996

M. Phil. Dissertation: On Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Political Action

Political Science

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

1993

Specialization: Political Theory and Thought

Career Profile

Department of Political Science, DU

 

Assistant Professor

since December, 2010

Teaching and Students’ dissertation supervision

Ramjas College, University of Delhi

Assistant Professor

(May, 2005-December, 2010)

Teaching

Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi

Assistant Professor

Oct. 2002-May, 2005

Teaching

Areas of Specialization / Interest

Political Thought: Indian and Western

HIstory of Ideas and Concepts

Subjects Taught

Teaching since: Oct. 2002. Courses taught: Indian Political Thought, Colonialism and Nationalism in India, Western Political Thought, Political Economy and Society

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION/PRESENTATIONS

October 2008 to March 2010

Presented papers on the “Conceptualization of the Social and the Economic in Colonial North India” in the four International Conferences held at Helsinki (Oct. 2008), Bangkok (March 2009), Berlin (Oct. 2009) and Damascus (March, 2010) for the International Project “Conceptual Histories of the World and Global Translations

Presented Paper on "Discourse of Civilization in India before Hind Swaraj at Winter School on Life and Thought of M K Gandhi held at IIAS, Shimla, from 1 - 15 December 2010 

Presented paper on “Cosmopolitanism” for the Indian Political Thought section of the ICSSR Research Survey Workshop in Political Science, held at International Centre, Goa, 13-16 February 2011

Awards and distinctions

Two Years Research Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (August, 2008-July, 2010)

Association with Professional Bodies

Board Member of Concepta: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought