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Sheetal Sharma

Sheetal Sharma

Sheetal Sharma
Sheetal Sharma
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for European Studies,
School of International Studies
Room No
# 305, SIS New Building
Off. Phone
011-26704148, 011-26738714 (direct)
Email
sheetal88@gmail.com, sheetal@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sheetal/cv.pdf
Qualifications

MA, MPhil, PhD in Sociology from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi.

Areas of Interest/Specialization
  • Culture and Society in Europe
  • Diaspora Studies
  • Gender and Empowerment of women
  • Methodology of Social Sciences, Sociological theories
  • Research Methodology 
  • Education and Social Development 
Experience
  • Joined as Assistant Professor in January 2008 at Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies.
  • Worked as Lecturer at Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon, India, and taught emergence of Sociological Theory in Europe and Methodology of Social Sciences as curriculum of degree program of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 1999-2007.
Awards & Honours
  • Selected for Prestigious European Union Visitors Program, 2020 (EUVP, 2020). EUVP is a study visit to Brussels, individually tailored to gain first-hand information on the EU's values, functioning, activities, policies and perspectives.
  • Awarded Consultancy project titled as ‘Update of 2015 Perception Study’, by PPMI Group UAB Europe acting on behalf of *European Commission - Foreign Policy Instrument (FPI), January – September 2021.
  • Awarded Grant on JNU Jean Monnet Project titled as ‘Art and Culture in Everyday Life: An Interface of European and Indian Values’, under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Activities- 2019, to promote European Studies from 2020-2023.
  • Awarded Grant on JNU Jean Monnet Module titled as ‘Institutions, Diversity and Change in the European Union’, under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Activities- 2019, to promote European Studies from 2020-2023.
  • Co-PI in the Financial Grant on JNU Jean Monnet Project titled as ‘Strengthening and Promoting EU Studies Across India, under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Activities- 2019, to promote European Studies from 2020-2023.
  • Awarded JNU Research Excellence Award for outstanding contribution and excellence in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities for the year 2018-19 in the Young Scholars Category.
  • Awarded Grant on Jean Monnet Network titled as REACTIK - cReative Economy and Cultural International link, as partner institution (along with Network partners from Israel, New Zealand, Japan, and Denmark) under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Network- 2018 for Intercultural studies 2018-2021.
  • Awarded Grant on JNU Jean Monnet Module titled as ‘Society, Culture, and Social Change in Europe’, under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Activities- 2017, to promote European Studies from 2017-2020.
  • Awarded the UPF Erasmus+ mobility grant, for Staff mobility for teaching and training between programme and partner countries, KA107 -2016, as VISITING SCHOLAR to University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, from 9-14th Oct, 2017.
  • Received grant for the project titled as ‘Socio-cultural aspects of Indian Diaspora in the UK: A Sociological Study’ under UPoE (University of Potential Excellence) call by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, from 2015-2019.
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  • Course Coordinator for MOOCs Courses titled as Sociology-I, and Sociology-III, for School Education offered by NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training), offered through SWAYAM platform of MHRD, Government of India.
  • Invited as an Expert Evaluator for Evaluation of H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships H2020-MSCA-IF-2020) assisting the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission with the evaluation of the proposal(s) submitted in response to the call.
  • Invited as Consultant by Ed.Cil (Educational Consultant India Limited) a Public Sector Undertaking of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, for Assessment Study for Evaluation of Institutions under YMCA, New Delhi.
  • Invited as an Expert Evaluator by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), the European Commission, for the evaluation of the proposal(s) submitted for Project in Capacity Building in Higher Education (EAC-A02-2019-CBHE) for year 2020.
  • Invited as an Expert Evaluator for Evaluation of H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships H2020-MSCA-IF-2019) assisting the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission with the evaluation of the proposal(s) submitted in response to the call.
  • Nominated by Ministry of Human Resource Development, as Member-Expert in the subject-field of Sociology, and Gender Studies in Selection Committee for the ‘2018 Commonwealth Scholarship in the United Kingdom’ offered by the Government of United Kingdom.
  • Nominated as Subject Matter Expert in Sociology to Develop e-contents for MOOC for School Education by MHRD, online courses to be offered through SWAYAM platform of Government of India, at CIET, NCERT Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.
  • EC member of African Studies Association, New Delhi.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Indian and European Responses to Migration and Refugee Crises, in R. K. Jain (ed.), India and the European Union in a Turbulent, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN 978-981-15-3916-9, pg 205-217.
  • Social and Political Participation of Indian Diaspora in the UK, in Ruchi Verma et.al (ed.) Diaspora and National Building, Prabhat Prakashan, New Delhi, 2019, pg- 62-70.
  • Multiculturalism in India and Europe: Policy and Practice, in Gulshan Sachdeva (ed.) Challenges in Europe, Indian Perspectives, Palgrave Macmilan, 2019, pg-271-290.
  • Delhi’s Superdiversity: A Historical Understanding, in Tiziana Caponio, Peter Scholten and Ricard Zapata-Barrero (ed.), The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group: London and New York (2019) pg 275-286.
  • Gender Equality in Nordic Countries: How much Real, How much Successful? in Bhaswati Sarkar (ed.), India and the Nordics in a Changing World, Kaveri Books, New Delhi.
  • Freedom or Subjugation: Interpreting the Subjectivity of Women in Indian Diaspora Communities (2018) in Amba Pande (ed.) Women in the Indian Diaspora, Springer Nature Singapore Pvt Ltd. page 39-52.
  • Pakistani Diaspora in the United Kingdom (2017), in RK Jain (ed.), India, Europe and Pakistan, KW Publishers, New Delhi. Pp, 213-238.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • Social and Political Participation of Indian Diaspora in the UK, International Studies, Journal of the School of International Studies, JNU, Sage Publication, Vol. 51, No. 1-4, Jan-Oct, 2014.
  • Contours of Multiculturalism in India and Europe, World Focus, Special Issue on the theme, Turmoil in Europe and India-EU Ties, August, 2017.
  • Gender Equality and Status of Women in Baltic States and Central and Eastern Europe in post-Soviet Period, Contemporary Central Asia, CRCAS Journal, Vol.–XVIII, Number 2-3, May-December 2014.
Patents (if any)

Video Lecture Series published:

 

Topics

Link

World Politics and Cold War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBRDDfRiDs

Cold War and Division of World in Eastern and Western Blocs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyTDNjad8Ek

Iron Curtain and Influence of Super Powers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3_8rOUI2w

Cold War and Treaties between the Super Powers and their Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2qACM4-7m0

Cold War and Emergence of Non-aligned Movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTS6lchlLQE

Cold War and New International Economic Order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKzhDtg2pc

Bipolarity and Soviet Union

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT5jqENwLdI

Features and Problems of Soviet Economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOzbvkgQWhg

Reforms Initiated by Gorbochev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_GVPXhYEB8

Disintegration of USSR, Shock Therapy and India’s Relations with Post Communist Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQrK3ALUkd8

US Hegemony in World Politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85aPVBavlXU

US in Cold War Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtXlPa0OVPs

US as Structural Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRha1HUGZ2o

US as Soft Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjYTF76M298

US Hegemony in Post Cold War Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYqkZU4NYAA

Alternative Centers of Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuaXeUUCdNI

The European Union

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpJhKDNCyQ

The ASEAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYXzJcbUZLY

Asian Tigers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4q6FTui4M

Rise of China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP6nw8SSqcc

India China Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvmxeMZ4vGM

Contemporary South Asia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyo72w0AFPI

India and Nepal Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCNO9tyJ0mw

India Bangladesh Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeoJyBy-ce8

India- Sri Lanka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF35eGwyB5M

India- Maldives and Bhutan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7K54-NmnPI

India and Pakistan Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElcDnQKPaq4

British Colonialism in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86QL07J9xHA

Process of Industrialisation and Urbanisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHuWOPB0H0

Social Reform Movement in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4GzwZXmyQA

Modernity and Enlightenment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb1fBEdIdGc

Westernisation and Sanskritisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiyoln9Ac5Y

Secularisation and Globalisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EkqvbNVFUU

Understanding Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alGxI_2llPI

Constitution of India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4n-lyb78aQ

Panchayati Raj System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qH2fab4w0A

Role of Political Parties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4IVqRMNDFg

Agrarian Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5QmhSVQzw

Impact of Land Reforms on the Rural Society in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5QmhSVQzw

Impact of Green Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOr6valgUVM

Rural Society in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jBHLoZxKNc

Nature of Industrial Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koNCdGWJmrQ

 

Nature of Industrial Society -2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP3hZkcKbE

Industrialization in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWa73I-yzWk

Process of Industrialisation of India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Q1uQ3EDWs

Nature of Industrialisation in India after Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-vgdPQudQ&t=35s

Work & Finding Employment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRnpag-ZCNg

Mass Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb91QbZ-pMY

Mass Media and Social Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvgo50910Y

Beginning of Mass Media in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC4a4jzotX4

Types of Mass Media and Communications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yjC_pgX_w

 

Mass Media after Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6WbnA_RH_s

Print and electronic Media and Communications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yav2o44yrY

 

Social Movements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ym74aRaMY

Social Movements and change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCRuoy3EZu0

Caste and Class based Movements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQP_2NaJlo

Reasons for Social Movements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJNBhhcTwSk

Types of Social Movements 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rNgAQzCgw

Peasants and Labour Movements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re3IghPJ014

Understanding Globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xxnjf7-JLg

Theories of globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWjdW_CF_w

Economic aspects of globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AIKIphTxw

Globalization and social change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLJSBkMIrs4

Anti-globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftHuCi1eAE

Introduction to Political Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKtc5pNX5o

Introduction to Political Science and Political Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Scpx5oSFM

Introduction to Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG0oUx3MakA

Freedom and its Constraints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2TuMT2wOuc

Harm Principle and Rights of Citizens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NchkwSz7Wik

Liberty, its Types and Importance of Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oz-lp5AhBA

 

 

Culture and its Components

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfc6j0kvkIw

Emergence of Different Cultures in Various Dimensions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RubAWdAtuTI

Cultural Change and Cultural Identities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vYvK_hGTjs

Socialisation and Various Agencies of Socialisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcVfdEJwY4

Research Methodology in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O98kNXCR5xY

Subjectivity and Objectivity in Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZEqta0vzI

Micro and Macro Methods in Sociological Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3i613Tbyg

Research Designs in Sociological Research and Types of Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBsP4We8_w

Advantages and Disadvantages of Types of Research Methods in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWcNyR5bwM

Process of Research in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYVkOVesk8I

Field Work Method of Research in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzlbMVBGDXU

 

  • List of Text-Modules developed for MOOCs in Sociology for NCERT

 

Module Code

Title

Course Introduction

Introducing Indian Society

lesy10301

Caste System and Sanskritization

lesy10302

Tribes in India

lesy10303

Family, Kinship and Marriage

lesy10501

Social Inequality, Social Exclusion and Social Stratification, Prejudice, Stereotypes, Discrimination

lesy10502

Caste, Other Backward Classes and Untouchability

lesy10503

Adivasi Struggles

lesy10504

Women’s Struggles and Disability

kesy10201

Social Groups-concept, features, Types

kesy10202

Social Stratification- Caste, Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender

kesy10203

Social Control & Social Sanction

kesy10204

Status & Role,  Role conflict( Khasi tribe), Role stereotyping

Kesy10301

Family, Marriage, Kinship -Concept, Types, Changes

kesy10401

Culture- Definition and Dimensions

kesy10402

Socialization & its Agencies -Family, Peer Group & School, Mass Media, other agencies

kesy10403

Ethnocentrism and Cosmopolitanism  and Cultural Change

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.