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Nilika Mehrotra

Nilika Mehrotra
Nilika Mehrotra
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
030
Off. Phone
26704427
Email
nilika@jnu.ac.in, nilika21@yahoo.co.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/nilika/cv.pdf
Qualifications

M.Sc.(1986), Ph.D,1994 (University of Delhi)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Social Anthropology. Gender, Disability, Tribal Development Studies and Ethnography

Experience

# Teaching and Research : 34 Years approx
# Professor since August 2010
# Associate Professor CSSS/SSS, JNU since August 2004-August 2010
# Assistant Professor, CSSS/SSS, JNU (Dec. 1999 – Aug 2004)
# Taught Sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (1995-1999).
# Worked as Junior Fellow, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi (1994-95)
# Taught at the Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi (1990-1993)

Awards & Honours

UGC JRF Fellowship 1987-1990
Editor, Indian Anthropologist, Indian Anthropological Association
Fulbright- Nehru Senior Research Fellowship 2013-2014 at University of California, Berkley, USA.

International Collaboration/Consultancy
  1. Research project completed: ‘A Study of Disabled Women in Rural Har-yana’ funded by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India,
  2. Research Project on Disability Studies programmes in India and United States: Issues in Institutionalization funded by Fulbright Nehru Fellow-ship 2013-2014
  3. Research Project on Disability Studies programmes in India: Issues in In-stitutionalization funded by UPOE, JNU, 2015-2017
  4. Food, Culture and Changing Socialites in Delhi and Odisha(In progress)
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Disability Studies: Developments in Anthropology, In Disability in the Global South, Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic (eds.), Springer (2016) (with James Staples), 35-49.
  2. Disability, Gender and State Policy : Exploring Margins (2013), Rawat Publications.
  3. Disability Rights Movements in India : Politics and Practice, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI No.6: 65:72, 2011.
  4. Unregistered Concerns: Violence Against Women with Disabilities in In-dia, In Jyoti Atwal and Iris Flessenkamper (eds). Gender and Violence: His-torical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, 2019 (with Mahima Na-yar)
  5. Isliye dard hota hai : Women’s Mental Health Issues in Poor Households of India, Psychology and Developing Societies, vol. 27 no. 1 104-124, March 2015 (with Mahima Nayar)
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Book
Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer 2020.

Research Articles

  1. Situating Disability Studies: A Prolegomenon, In Nilika Mehrotra (ed.) Disability Studies in India :  Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Spring-er,  pp.1-22
  2. Emergent Disability voices on Social Media during COVID -19 times, Disability & the Global South (DGS), 2021, Vol. 8 No. 1(pp. 1993-2006)
  3. Disability, Gender and Caste Intersections in Indian Economy, in Sharon N. Barnartt, Barbara M. Altman (eds) Research in Social Science and Disability, Volume 7, 295-324 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013.
  4. Situating Disability Studies: A Prolegomenon, In Nilika Mehrotra (ed.) Disability Studies in India :  Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, 2020 (pp.1-22)

                               

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