डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• M.A., M. Phil and PhD in Modern Indian History, JNU, Delhi
• B.A Hons. (History), St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor in the urban studies program, School of Global Affairs, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (2018-present).
• Assistant Professor (History), School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B.R, Ambedkar University Delhi (2014-2018).
• Assistant Professor (History), Bhim Rao Ambedkar College in Delhi University (2013-14).

Administrative Appointments

• Deputy Dean Student Services (KP campus) (Sep 2023-2024)
• Convener, Standing Committee for Academic Purposes (October 2021-22)
• Member, Board of Studies, School of Global Affairs, AUD (2019-22)
• Deputy Dean, Academic and Governance, AUD (2018-21)
• BA Program Coordinator, SGA, AUD (2018-20, 2022- 24)

• Urban history of small towns and cities
• Partition of the Indian subcontinent
• Gender and refugee rehabilitation policies

Courses taught at AUD

PhD

• Methods for Urban Research (co-taught)

Masters

• Urban Space and Experiences
• Writing Seminar 
• Dissertation and Internship supervision (co-taught)
• Making of the Modern World (co-taught)
• Partitions in South Asia (co-taught)

Undergraduate

• The City in Literature
• Claims to the City
• Colonial Urbanism
• Urban Worlds
• Introduction to Social Science and Humanities
• Understanding the Past
• Early India
• Modern India
• Introduction to Social Sciences I 
• Introduction to Social Sciences II (co-designed)
• Introduction to History: Theory and Methods 
• Ancient and Medieval India (co-designed)

• Awarded New Indian Foundation book fellowship 2023
• Won Dr. Nasreen Ahmad Memorial Prize for best paper in Gender History, IHC 2015
• One year internship with Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 2011-12
• Qualified UGC-NET for lectureship 2009.
• The Sanwa Bank (UFJ bank) Scholarship, Asha Chatterjee Prize, Raghuvansh K.Balbir Prize, Vikas Dhaka Scholarship, St.Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Chapters in edited volumes

• 2024, co authored a chapter ‘Researching the ‘Urban Turn’: Interdisciplinary Methods to Study Cities and Regions’ in Babu P.Remesh and Ratheesh Kumar (edited) ‘Practicing Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations’, Oxon Routledge, pp.249-261.
• 2023, Chapter in Mariz Tadros, Philip Mader and Kathryn Cheeseman ed. ‘Poverty and Prejudice Religious Inequality and Struggle for Sustainable Development’ Bristol University Press: UK, ISBN 978-1529229042.
• 2021,‘Land(e)scapes of Utopia: Reconciling Old Ways of Living in New Towns in India’ in Radical City Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City (ed.) Pithamber R. Polsani, SAGE, Yoda Press, pp. 131-146,
• 2020,‘Mapping the Core-Periphery Dynamics of Delhi Metropolis’ in Urbanism in South Asia, North East India, Outside In (ed.) Prof. Meeta Deka, Primus publications: Delhi, pp.190-212.

Educational resources

• 2022, Resource person for a (co-authored) unit 11 ‘Bakhar and Buranji’ BHIE 144 Module Traditions of History Writing in India, IGNOU ISBN 978-93-5568-403-5.pp.193-214.
• 2017, Resource person for MA History Urban Studies course material IGNOU,
• (Unit 31) Cities in Eighteenth Century 2
• (Unit 32) Lucknow: A Case Study.

Publications in Journals

• December 2023, Co authored paper ‘Fragmented planning and splintered urbanism: A spatio-temporal study of Ghaziabad’ Vol.8, No.2, Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies, pp.71-92. https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/nidan/article/view/24336/23742
• Dec 3, 2021 ‘Myth and reality of gender based violence in India’s partition and thereafter https://16daysblogathon.blog/author/uoegendered/
• https://16daysblogathon.blog/2021/11/18/16-days-of-activism-2021-histories-legacies-myths-and-memories/ (co curated with Prof Rukmini Sen. This was a collaborative effort in association with gender Ed at the University of Edingurgh, the Gendered Violence Research Network at the University of South Wales and Centre for Publishing at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi). We coordinated again for two new themes in 2022 and 2023.
• 2020, https://www.identitiesjournal.com/the-viral-condition-virtual-symposium/invisible-virus-visible-bodies-the-biological-exposition-of-a-socio-historical-malaise published online
• 2015, Won the Nasreen Ahmad Memorial Prize for best paper in Gender History titled ‘The Birth pangs of a divided ation: Articulating the experiences of women and children in the post partition period’, published in Indian History Congress, ISSN 2249-1937, pp.1247-1252.
• 2015,‘Midnight’s Discarded Progeny: Articulating Experiences of Children (post 1947)’, Journal of History and Culture, ISSN 2348-3830, pp.113-123.
• 2013, ‘A Nation Partitioned or Homes Divided? The severed relationship between the state, community and abducted women in the post partition period’, Indian History Congress, ISSN 2249-1937, pp.1391-97.

Book Reviews

• 2020 Pondicherry under the French, Illuminating the Urban Landscape, 1674-1793 (2018), S. Jeyaseela Stephen in newbooks.asia@IIAS.
• 2018 Urban Spaces in Modern India (2018) (ed.) Narayani Gupta and Partho Datta, (IIAS:Shimla) in Summerhill, IIAS Review Vol. XXIV, No. 1, ISSN: 0972-1452, pp.84-85.

CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/WEBINARS/ INVITED LECTURES

• Invited as a panelist to speak on ‘Shahjahanabad partitioned: A city refashioned’ in the festival ‘Mir ki Dilli: Shahjahanbad the evolving city’ organized by Anjuman Taraqqui Urdu Hind ATUH, IIC Delhi 18 Feb 2024.
• Invited as a resource person for refresher course in History and Culture on the theme ‘Exploring the past through the archives’, UGC MMTTC Jaipur, 30 Jan 2024.
• Presented a paper in the Indian History Congress, 82^ndsession, Kakatiya University Warangal, Telangana 28-30^th Dec 2023.
• Presented a paper in an international interdisciplinary symposium organized by the University of Auckland, New Zealand from 15^th -16^th Sep 2023.
• Presented a paper in a national conference organized by All India Women’s Association Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 7-10^th Sep 2023.
• Presented a co authored paper in Shodhotsav organized by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi 31^st Aug 2023.
• Presented a co authored paper in an international conference on Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development in Global South: International Experiences and Future Strategies 10-12 August 2023 New Delhi.
• Presented a co authored paper in an international conference on ‘The State of Urban History: Past, Present, Future, conference’ in Leicester, UK, 13 July 2023.
• Presented a co authored paper in our panel in the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne 30 June 2023.
• Chaired a session and presented a paper in a National Seminar organised by SNDT college and MD Shah Mahila College, Mumbai 20-21^st March 2023. 
• Invited Speaker on International Women’s Month ‘Understanding Gender Equity’ organized online by TCS Culture and Diversity team, 9^th March 2023.
• Presented a paper in SMUS India Conference, IIT Roorkee, 24 Feb 2023.
• Co authored paper presented in an international conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability India Conference, IIT Roorkee, 25 Feb 2023.
• Chaired a session and presented a paper in a national seminar ‘Freedom at Midnight: Women’s voices and the Indian Freedom Struggle’ IIT Bhilai 17^th February 2023.
• Presented a paper in the Contemporary Section in Indian History Congress, Chennai 28 Dec 2022
• Invited Speaker at a workshop "Reading Cities, Mapping Archives: Understanding the Past through Texts and Spaces" Khalsa Collge DU, 8^th Dec 2022
• Presented a paper in India Oral History conference, London Metropolitan University, UK 8-9th^th July 2022.
• Presented a paper in an ICHR sponsored national seminar The Untold Story: People of Bihar and their contribution and legacy in the Indian struggle for freedom' May 27-28th 2022
• Invited Speaker on gender bias in a series based on international women’s month’ organized online by TCS Culture and Diversity team, 17^th March 2022.
• Invited panelist for presenting a paper in an international conference organized by Centre for Gender Studies, Patna, 10^th March 2022
• Presented a paper in an international conference organized by Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies University of Erfurt, Schloss Ettersburg, Germany, 24-26th November 2021
• Chaired a plenary session in an international conference titled ‘Narrating the South Asian City Critical Perspectives’ organized by Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai in collaboration with the Association for Literary Urban Studies, 15th November 2021.
• Invited speaker in an international workshop on ‘Writing Histories of a Provincial Economy, Odisha, from Early Modern to Modern’, organized by TISS Hyderabad, 30th Oct 2021.
• Invited speaker in an online seminar conducted by Centre for Research Methods, AUD 23^rd Aug 2021.
• Invited panelist in a webinar conducted by Australia India Institute as part of India Week on a theme titled ‘Literature, Political Writings and their Influence on the Indian Freedom Struggle’, 12^th Aug 2021.
• Invited Speaker in a webinar conducted by Department of History, Ganga Devi Mahavidyalaya, Patna, 9^th March 2021.
• Invited Speaker for ‘Intersections’, Dept of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai, 8^th March 2021.
• Panelist in ‘The City in India: before and after COVID19’ in an online webinar organized by Indiana University Bloomington (USA) on 14^th Oct 2020.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Land(e)scapes of Utopia..’ in a National Conference on the theme Radical City’ (Art, Design and Culture) in Srishti, Bengaluru (20^th-21^st December 2019)
• Presented a paper in an international conference ‘Measuring Futures: Politics of Expertise in Asia’, 10-11 Dec 2018 University of Chicago Centre Delhi.
• Participated in a GIAN workshop on ‘Geographies of Waste: Surplus Value, Surplus Matter, Surplus Humanity’ by Prof. Vinay Gidwani held in AUD from 19-23 Dec 2017.
• Chaired a panel and presented a paper in a national conference in Amity NOIDA on 22nd August 2017
• Presented a paper in the 79^th Urban Workshop Series organised by Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centres de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi on 30 August 2016.
• Presented a paper in a national conference organised by Oral History Association of India, Mumbai 19-20 January 2015.
• Paper presented in an international seminar on ‘Understanding Urban History’ organised by ICHR and Guwahati University in September 2014.
• Paper presented in a national seminar ‘The Line that Divides- Understanding Partition from Women and/in Partition Narratives’, Shivaji College Delhi, January 2013.

• Co PI for a Major Research Project Grant (MRPG) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi to work on the city of Ghaziabad (2021-24)