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[at]gmail[dot]com, sheetal[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/sheetal
Personal files
CV Sheetal Sharma.pdf
Qualifications

MA, MPhil, PhD from JNU

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

Teaching at the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, JNU since January 2008.

Awards & Honours

  • Awarded Jean Monnet Modules (SCSC, IDC, CSIC, DMC), Jean Monnet Project (ACE), and Jean Monnet Networks (REACTIK, EUiP) under the Erasmus+ Framework of the European Union.

  • Selected for the 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 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.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Expert Evaluator for REA and EACEA, European Commission

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • India and the EU: Synergies and Challenges in the Indo-Pacific, by Sharma, S. and Theiler, T. in Smith, N.R. and Holland, M. (Eds.), Regional Perspectives on the EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Beyond Brussels, 2026. Routledge, London.

  • Hybrid Learning: Issues and Challenges of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, in Manish Kumar (ed) New Education Policy, Sustainable Development and Nation Building Perspectives, Issues and Challenges, Taylor and Francis, 2025. ISBN: 9781032996417.

  • Gender Equality and Status of Women in the Baltics: A Work in Progress, in Bhaswati Sarkar (ed), The Baltics in a Changing Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. 299- 318. ISBN: 978-981-97-5889-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5890-6. 

  • Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism in India and Europe, in BK Nagla and Kameshwar Choudhary (ed) Culture Change in India: Intellectual Traditions, Institutions and Regions, Routledge India, 2024. ISBN: 978-1032361284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032724300-20.

  • Migration and Indian Diaspora in Western Europe, in RK Jain (ed) India and Europe in a Changing World: Context, Confrontation, Cooperation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 547- 564. ISBN: 978-981-99-1113-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1114-1.

  • Blended Learning: Emerging Method of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, in Shiva K 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 World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN 978-981-15-3916-9, pp. 205- 217.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • The EU–India Partnership in the Indo-Pacific: Scope and Prospects. By Sharma, S., and T. Theiler. 2026. Global Policy. Pp 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70190.
  • India-Ireland Relations: Understanding the Contours of Bilateral Engagement since the 1950s, The IUP Journal of International Relations, Vol. 19, Issue 3, July-September 2025, pp. 1- 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.71329/IUPJIR/2025.19.3.7-31. ISSN: 3049-4303.
  • 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: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2141062.

Patents (if any)

Video Lecture Series

 

Video Lecture Series for NCERT and SWAYAM:

 

 

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 the World into Eastern and Western Blocs

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

Iron Curtain and Influence of Superpowers

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

Cold War and Treaties between the Superpowers 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 the Soviet Union

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

End of the Cold War and fall of the 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 Gorbachev

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

Disintegration of the 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 the Post-Cold War Era

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

Alternative Centres 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

Industrialisation 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 Globalisation

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

Theories of globalisation

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

Economic aspects of globalisation

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

Social and cultural dimension of globalisation 

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

Political dimension of globalisation 

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

Globalisation 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