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First Name ANUJA
Last Name AGRAWAL
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Designation Associate Professor Department Sociology
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EducationSubject Institution Year DetailsPh.D., Sociology CSSS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Delhi2003 Degree awarded
M. Phil., Sociology Department of SociologyDelhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
1994 65.6%
M.A., Sociology CSSS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
1992 CGPA 7.62
B.A.(H), Sociology Hindu CollegeUniversity Of Delhi
1990 63.5%; Awarded the University Gold Medal for being the first in the University in B.A.(H), Sociology.
Career ProfileOrganisation / Institution Designation Duration Role Department of Sociology,Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Associate Professor 2008 onwards Teaching and research
Department of Sociology,Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Reader 2005-2008 Teaching and research
Department of Sociology,Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi
Senior Lecturer 1999-2005 Teaching and research
Department of Sociology,Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi
Lecturer 1994-1999 Teaching and research
Research Interests / Specialization
My 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 thus also interested in issues of sex work, trafficking and migration.
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Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught)
I have been teaching for the last twenty four years now and have taught a range of courses including Sociology of India, Economic and Political Sociology, Sociology of Kinship, Sociological Theory and Research Methodology (at the Undergraduate level) and Sociology of Kinship, Sociological Theories, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, Gender and Society and Population and Society (at the Post graduate level) and M.Phil. courses on Methods of data collection and Sociology of Family.
Honors & Awards
I was awarded the 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.
I was awarded the University Gold Medal by the University of Delhi in 1990 for being top among my batch of students in the B.A. (H), Sociology.
PublicationsBooks / MonographsYear of Publication
Title Publisher Co-Author
2008 Chaste wives and prostitute sisters: Patriarchy and Prostitution among the Bedias of North India
Routledge, New Delhi and London
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2006 Migrant women and work Sage Publications, New Delhi
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Articles
‘Special Article: Situating the Law on Prostitution/Sex Work in India’ Explorations: E-journal of the Indian Sociological Society, 2018, 2(1): 3-20.
‘Changing cultures of photography: Visualising Visual Access/Excess in tourist places’ photo essay in Society and culture in south Asia, January 2017, 3(1).
‘Witch-hunting’ in India?:Do We Need Special Laws? (co-authored with Madhu Mehra) Economic & Political Weekly, March 26, 2016 vol lI no 13, pg 51-57.
‘Criminal Neglect: Has the status of denotified tribes in India changed significantly post-independence?’ Himal, 13 January 2016
‘Gender Contests in the Delhi Metro: Implications of reservation of a coach for women’ (co-authored with Aarushi Sharma), Indian Journal of Gender Studies, October 2015 (22:3)
‘Cyber-matchmaking among Indians: Re-arranging marriage and doing “kin work”’ South Asian Popular Culture, April 2015, 13(1).
‘Situating marriage payments: Bride-price and dowry among the Bedias of north India’ Contributions to Indian Sociology, June 2014, 48 (2)
‘Law and “live-in” relationships in India’ in Economic and political weekly, 2012, 47(39), pp. 50-56.
‘Prostitution as familial economy’ in Prabha Kotiswaran (ed.) 2011 Sex work, New Delhi: Women Unlimited
‘Ideologies of Honour and Prostitution of Women: The Bedia Case’ in Manisha Gupte, Ramesh Awasthi and Shraddha Chickerur (eds) 2012 ‘Honour’ and Women’s Rights, IDRC and MASUM.
‘Social Construction of Gender’, Lesson for the undergraduate course on Human Rights, Gender and Environment available on the University of Delhi website.
Book Reviews
Review of Sital Kalantry 2017 Women’s human rights and migration: sex selective abortion laws in the United States and India, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, for International journal of feminist politics, 20 (2), April 2018.
Review of Kumkum Sanagri 2015 Solid Liquid: A (trans)national reproductive formation, Delhi : Tulika Book, for The Book Review, vol. XL, No.7, July 2016.
Review of Svati Shah’s Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai, Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 280 pp. American Anthropologist, 117 (2), June 2015.
Reports
Was the Co-author (With Madhu Mehra) of the Report Contemporary Practices of Witch Hunting: A Report on Social trends and the interface with law, Partners for Law in Development, 2014.
Blog Pieces
Who gets caught – From death row convicts to ‘criminals by birth’, in Kafila, August 1, 2015.
Suicide of a ‘Criminal’ or Murder of the Stigmatized? in Kafila, June 16, 2015.
Conference and Paper Presentations
Gave a talk on ‘”What, Who and Why” questions about kinship’ at the Department of Sociology, Jesus and Mary College, Delhi on 26 March, 2018.
Presented a paper titled ‘Law religion and marriage: Arya Samaj Marriage in Indian Courts’ at the Sociological Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, Delhi, on 27 October, 2017.
Gave a Lecture titled ‘Unending Stigma: Denotified Communities in India’ at Politik’17, Organised by the Department of Political Science, Kamla Nehru College, University of Delhi, on 2 March 2017.
Gave a talk titled ‘Family, Marriage and Kinship: Examining the emerging contours’ at the Department of Sociology, Ambedkar University on 18 November, 2016.
Presented a paper titled ‘Revisiting the Marxist Approach to Sex Work’ at International Conference on ‘Marxism and Contemporary South Asia: Issues and Relevance’ organised by Department of Sociology, South Asian University & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung at India International Centre, New Delhi on 11-12 November 2016.
Delivered a talk in ‘Gender questions at the Margins: The case of Denotified communities in India’ in the Series Feminism beyond Boundaries, Organised by Oxford Bookstore and Apne Aap Women worldwide on 9th September 2016.
Delivered lecture on ‘Social Construction of Gender’ at WSDC University of Delhi on 21st January and on ‘Family and Kinship’ on 5th April 2016.
Gave a Lecture on “Situating the Law on Sex Work in India” at the Ambedkar University, Delhi, on 18th November 2015.
Took part in Roundtable Discussion on ‘Contemporary Practices of Witch Hunting: A Report on Social Trends and the Interface with Law’ along with Madhu Mehra at CSLG, JNU, 28 August, 2015
Was an invited speaker at the DNT/NT conference organized by the All India Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Welfare Sangh, 25th July 2015.
Was a Resource Person for a Refresher Course and a Certificate Course organized by the Women’s Studies Development Centre, University of Delhi in December 2014 and May 2015.
Was a Resource Person for the event Women’s Political Empowerment Day Celebrations: Violence Against Women: Role of Panchayats, Organised by the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 24 April, 2015.
Presented a paper on ‘Denotified and Nomadic communities in India: The problem(s) of women’ at the National Consultation on Nomadic and Denotified Tribes, 28-29 March 2015, Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, Delhi.
Presented a paper titled ‘Marriage matters in Arya Samaj: Some observations on new trends’ at the Sociological Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, 21st March, 2014.
Presented a paper titled ‘Bedias, Familial Prostitution and Politics’ at the Centre for the Studies of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 21st January, 2014.
Presented a report titled ‘Contemporary Trends, Patterns and Realities of Witch-hunting’ at the National Conference to Disseminate Findings of a Multi-State Study on Witch Hunting, organized by Partners for Law in Development at the India International Centre, Delhi, 29 November, 2013
Presented a paper titled 'Cyber-matchmaking in India: A Sociological Analysis' at the conference Marriages In Asia: Trends, Determinants And Implications 15-16 November 2012. Jointly Organized by The Changing Family In Asia Cluster, Asia Research Institute, The Family, Children And Youth Cluster, Faculty Of Arts And Social Sciences, National University Of Singapore, & Scientific Group On “Marriage Transition In Asia”, Asian Population Association
Presented a paper titled ‘The Gendered Discourse on ‘Live-In’ Relationships in India: A preliminary analysis’ International Seminar on In the name of honour: A dialogue on androcentric matrimonial practices and women’s subjugation in South Asia, February 16th to 18th 2011, Women’s Studies & Development Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Presented a paper titled ‘Ideologies of ‘honour’ and prostitution of women: The Bedia case’ at a Consultation for the Project on ‘Crimes against women in the name of “honour”: Strategising for women’s rights and citizenship in South Asia’, organized by MASUM in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 24th 2010.
Gave a series of eight lectures on Marriage and matchmaking in India at the Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto under the auspices of the Public and the private: Reconstruction of the intimate sphere in 21st century Asia in May and June 2010
Presented a paper titled ‘Prostitution and marriage payments among the Bedias of India’ at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyoto, June 15 2010.
Presented a paper titled ‘Situating marriage payment: The Bedia case’ at the Research Colloquium in the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, 7th November 2008.
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.
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