Social Scientist in South Asia

Achla Pritam Tandon is Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India where she has been teaching for the last 27 years. From 2000 to 2004, she served as Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. From 2015-16, Dr. Tandon was on deputation to the Cluster Innovation Centre, Delhi University, where she was Coordinator, Humanities and Social Sciences programme. Her main research interests are in media, education, gender studies and social inequalities.Gopi Devdutt Tripathy is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, India. She completed her doctorate on Shia observation of Muharram from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research interests include religion, sociological theory, popular culture, gender studies, literary texts.Rashi Bhargava is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. She completed her doctorate on civil society in Nagaland from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research interests include northeast India, identity formation, civil society, sociology of knowledge and visual culture.