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Sheetal Sharma

Sheetal Sharma

Sheetal Sharma
Sheetal Sharma
Associate 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

  • International Relations
  • Migration and Diaspora Studies
  • Culture and Society in Europe
  • Research Methodology in Social Sciences
  • Gender and Empowerment of Women

Experience
  • Joined Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies.
  • Worked as Lecturer at the Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon, India, and taught emergence of Sociological Theory in Europe and Methodology of Social Sciences as the curriculum of the degree program of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

 

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Awards & Honours
  • Awarded Grant on JNU Jean Monnet Module titled ‘Democracy, Multiculturalism and Challenges in the European Union’, under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Activities- 2023, to promote European Studies from 2023-2026, granted by the European Commission.
  • 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 Grant on JNU Jean Monnet Module titled ‘Culture, Society, Institutions and Change in the European Union’, under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Activities- 2022, to promote European Studies from 2022-2025, granted by the European Commission.
  • Awarded Grant on Jean Monnet Network titled EUIP, European Union and Indo-Pacific as partner institution (as PI from India) with University of Canterbury as the lead applicant of the Network under the Framework of Erasmus+ Program - Jean Monnet Network- 2022 for European studies 2022-2025.
  • 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 ‘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 ‘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.
  • 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.
  • Received grant for the project titled ‘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 Sociology-I, and Sociology-III, for School Education offered by NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training), offered through the SWAYAM platform of MHRD, Government of India.
  • 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.
  • Nominated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, as a Member-Expert in the subject field of Sociology, and Gender Studies in the Selection Committee for the ‘2018 Commonwealth Scholarship in the United Kingdom’ offered by the Government of the 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.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Migration and Indian Diaspora in Western Europe, in RK Jain (ed) India and Europe in a Changing World: Context, Confrontation, Cooperation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pg 547-564.
  • Blended Learning: Emerging Method of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, in SK Shukla, and PK Jain (ed.), Transitions and Transformations in Academic Libraries and Higher Education: Contemplations and Savoir-Faire during Covid-19, Ess Ess publications, New Delhi, 2021.
  • 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

  • India Diaspora in Western Europe: Adapting and Negotiating Identity, South Asian Diaspora, 31 May, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2024.2358598.
  • India and France Bonhomie: Mapping the Contours of a Bilateral Engagement, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, Vol 17, No. 3-4, July-December 2022, pp 233-253, Prints Publication Pvt Ltd, ISSN: 09733248. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.3-4.8
  • Migration and mobility: South Asian experience, (November 2022), Ethnic and Racial Studies, Taylor & Francis (Routledge). ISSN: 1466-4356, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2141062
  • Emerging Dimension of Human Rights during Covid-19, in Forum iuris Europaeum – Journal for Legal Science, 8/2020/Nr. 2, Právnická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave, Trnava, Pp. 27-38, ISSN 2644-4364.
  • The European Union’s Support to Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Afghanistan (2017), Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2-3 April-September 2017. Pp, 133-151.
  • 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.
  • 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

Links

World Politics and Cold War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiuXDeaR-k&list=LL&index=53

Cold War, Cuban missile crisis and Division of World in Eastern and Western Blocs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKypE-QBow&list=LL&index=52

Iron Curtain and Influence of Super Powers

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_31308517075632128011525

Cold War and Treaties between the Super Powers and their Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZe7B7PjGo&t=73s

Cold War and Emergence of Non-aligned Movement

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_31308588524183552012745

Cold War, NAM and New International Economic Order

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_31308589119143116812891

Bipolarity and Soviet Union

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130887056594206721865

End of cold war and fall of berlin wall

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130886952947384321117

End of Bipolarity and communism

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_313088698366525440152

Features and Problems of Soviet Economy

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_313088698366525440152

Reforms Initiated by Gorbochev

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_313088701653155840153

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ml8wG8YL4&list=LL&index=117

US Hegemony in World Politics

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130956948075479041102

US in Cold War Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EZe7B7PjGo&list=LL&index=61&t=76s

US military operations desert storm

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130956963312271361894

US and India

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_313098570105094144173

US as Structural Power- Iraqi war

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130985578350264321129

US as Soft Power

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_313098566459506688179

US Hegemony in Post Cold War Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPHZ9oaMko

Alternative Centers of Power

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130958319736258561922

The European Union

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldouSE3TWA

Institutions of the EU

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3130958322264391681275

The ASEAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nU04zB-4Kc

India as an emerging power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Lsb3Jht9E

Contemporary South Asia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyo72w0AFPI&t=101s

India and Bhutan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCNO9tyJ0mw&t=109s

India and Nepal Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCNO9tyJ0mw&list=LL&index=152

India Bangladesh Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeoJyBy-ce8&t=89s

India- Sri Lanka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF35eGwyB5M&t=83s

India- Maldives relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7K54-NmnPI&t=95s

India and Pakistan Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElcDnQKPaq4&t=102s

Westernisation and Sanskritisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu5BFsfkvFw&list=LL&index=26

Secularisation and Globalisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-nfO5_zNg&list=LL&index=19

Understanding Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz6_LwDG9-A&list=LL&index=58

Constitution of India

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_313095130916429824163

Panchayati Raj System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7sMC9HMXCM&list=LL&index=57

Role of Political Parties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzarDHmFk0k&list=LL&index=47

Impact of Land Reforms on the Rural Society in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRx-zze9O18&list=LL&index=32

Impact of Green Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxQgI68X-Hk&list=LL&index=21

Circulation of labour and transformation of Rural Society in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcVfwWttxb4&list=LL&index=102

Nature of Industrial Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP3hZkcKbE&list=LL&index=25

Nature of Industrial Society -2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Q1uQ3EDWs&list=LL&index=16&t=47s

Industrialization in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWa73I-yzWk&list=LL&index=28

Process of Industrialisation of India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Q1uQ3EDWs&list=LL&index=15

Nature of Industrialisation in India after Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-vgdPQudQ&list=LL&index=147

Work & Finding Employment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poHjvEDVDJ4&list=LL&index=20

Mass Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb91QbZ-pMY&list=LL&index=24

Mass Media and Social Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvgo50910Y&list=LL&index=34

Beginning of Mass Media in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC4a4jzotX4&list=LL&index=36

Functions of Mass Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvgo50910Y&list=LL&index=34

Mass Media after Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6yjC_pgX_w&list=LL&index=35

Print and electronic Media and Communications

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb91QbZ-pMY&list=LL&index=24

Social Movements and change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCRuoy3EZu0&list=LL&index=30

Caste and Class based Movements

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

Stages in the life and Reasons for Social Movements

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

Types of Social Movements 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQP_2NaJlo&list=LL&index=29

Understanding Globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xxnjf7-JLg&list=LL&index=27

Theories of globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AIKIphTxw&list=LL&index=58

Economic aspects of globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_AIKIphTxw&list=LL&index=56

Social and cultural dimension of globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kT_2r9W4k&list=LL&index=48

Political dimension of globalization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftHuCi1eAE&list=LL&index=49

Globalization and social change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWjdW_CF_w&list=LL&index=31

Global communication and rise of international economic order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLJSBkMIrs4&list=LL&index=55

Introduction to Political Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDVccUDtYI&list=LL&index=63

Introduction to Political Science and Political Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCGA5_RmR9k&list=LL&index=62

Freedom and its Constraints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmseDG1X4I0&list=LL&index=51

Understanding culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps56cm8LLng&list=LL&index=134

Culture and its Components

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNwt9WIVGU&list=LL&index=60

Cultural Change and Cultural Identities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoW0JpaCW0&list=LL&index=59

Socialisation and Various Agencies of Socialisation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzaL1gNoMY&list=LL&index=14&t=22s

Research Methodology in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJ1HG5gdvs&list=LL&index=103

Subjectivity and Objectivity in Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJYWy7xQ2QQ

Advantages and Disadvantages of Types of Research Methods in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhBNsPxG7gY&list=LL&index=22

Field Work Method of Research in Sociology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdVcBAYIgo&list=LL&index=18

Understanding Indian Society – Introduction part 1

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3131155128817008641387

Understanding Indian Society – Introduction part 2

https://diksha.gov.in/play/content/do_3131155216306176001310

  • 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.