Assistant Professor

Dr Ipsita Pradhan

Department of Liberal Arts

Interests

  1. Gender Studies
  2. Changing Nature of Work
  3. Consumption Culture

Education

2010

Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi,
India
BA (Hons)

2012

Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,
India
MA

2020

Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad,
India
PhD

Experience

  • August 2021- December 2021- Research Assistant- Boston University under Project Director Prof. Nazli Kibria (Remote Work)
  • August 2019- May 2020- Assistant Professor (On Contract)- Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur
  • June 2018-October 2018- Assistant Professor- Stella Maris College, Chennai

Research Interest

  • Gender and the changing nature of labour
  • Nature of Urban spaces
  • Gig Economy
  • Consumption practices

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2018- Feminist Theory Workshop Travel Award-DUKE UNIVERSITY, U.S.A
  • 2012-UGC-NET JRF
  • 2008 & 2009-M.N.Srinivas Memorial Prize-Miranda House, Delhi University
  • 2010-University Academic Prize-Delhi University
  • 2007-Merit Award-CHSE, Odisha
  • 2007-State level Rajiv Gandhi Chhatra Prativa Puraskar-Odisha Rajiv Gandhi Students' Forum

Memberships

  • Member of the International Urban Symposium, since August 2023
  • Publications

    JOURNALS
    • Pradhan, Ipsita. ‘Production of Neoliberal Subjectivity(ies) on the Shop-floor: A Study of Women Shop-floor Employees in a Shopping Mall’ in Nandini Dhar (Ed.): Gender Configurations in Contemporary India.(2024). London & New York. Routledge [pg: 223-243]
    • Pradhan, Ipsita. (2022). ‘Aesthetic labour, Body and Femininity: Insights from a Retail Shop-floor’, Sanghaditha, July-2022 Issue: 32-41. [Translated from English to Malayalam by Dr. Anu Kuriakose].
    • Pradhan, Ipsita, Mukherjee, Anushyama & Rayaprol, Aparna. (2022). ‘Women and the Changing Nature of Work in Hyderabad’s Hitec City’, Sociological Bulletin, 7(1): 80-95.
    • Research Scholars’ Epistemological Predicament- Chakraborty, Mitaja, Das, Lalatendu Kesari, Pradhan, Ipsita et. al - Economic and Political Weekly, 54(23): 35-41(2019)
    • Presentation of Aesthetic Bodies and Emotional Labour: A Study of Women Employees in Organized Retail- Ipsita Pradhan- Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities, 7(5): 293-304 (2017)

    Conferences

    • Working at the Mall: Understanding Layered Spaces, in Mobility and Belonging Conference, organised by Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, Amsterdam in October, 2023.
    • Afterlife of Martyrdom: Obscure Narratives of Surviving Families in Hindi Cinema [co-authored by Dr. Ipsita Pradhan, Dr, Ugen Bhutia, Dr. Bikku (Department of Liberal Arts), Dr. Maanvender Singh (Department of History) and Dr. Aehsan Ahmad Dar (Department of Psychology), virtually in the 6th International Conference on the Future of Women, in Colombo, during 23rd-24th February, 2023.
    • Presentable and Well-Groomed: The Gendered Body on the Shop-floor [author- Dr. Ipsita Pradhan, department of Liberal Arts], virtually in the Talking Bodies 2023 Conference, organized by Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester, U.K on 15th June, 2023.
    • The Shopping Mall as Work-Place: Understanding Layered Space(s) [author- Dr. Ipsita Pradhan, department of Liberal Arts] in the IUS Field Training School and Research Seminar on Urban Ethnography and Theory in Tuscany, Italy, from 21st-27th July, 2023.
    • Working in the Shopping Mall: A Study of Women Shop- Employees in a Hyderabad Mall, in the 6th Annual Research on Cities Summit, organized by School of Human Settlements, at XIM University, Bhubaneshwar, during 10-12th February, 2022.
    • The Layered Spaces of the Shopping Mall: in the Gender, Labour and Consumption in a Historical Perspective, organized by the Department of History, Essex University, Colchester Campus, United Kingdom, during September 13-14, 2019
    • Production of ‘Customer-Service Assistants’: A Study of Women Retail Shop-floor Employees in a Shopping Mall, in the Conference on The New Subjectivities of Global Capitalism: Spirituality, Personal Development and the World of Work, organized by the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, during September 18-20, 2017
    • The ‘Groomed’ Body on the Shop-floor: A Study of Women Retail Employees in A Shopping Mall in Hyderabad, in the Young Researchers’ Conference with the theme of Narratives of Embodiment, organized by the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, held during March 9-11, 2017.
    • The Body on the Shop-floor: A Study of Retail Shop Floor Employees in a Shopping Mall in the National Seminar on Globalization and Women: Issues and Concerns, organized by Banaras Hindu University and Research Committee on Gender Studies of the Indian Sociological Association, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India during September 14-15, 2016
    • ‘Groomed’ Bodies at Work in the International Conference on Gender Equality, held during 12th Nov-14 Nov, 2015 in Kovalam, Kerala, India
    PROJECTS
    • Co-PI of the project ‘Glass-ceiling for women in the corporate sector- antecedents, outcomes and policy measures’, awarded by the National Commission of Women. The PI is Prof. Rama Devi, Management Studies, NIT Warangal.
    WORKSHOPS
    • Participated in the Masterclass on ‘Researching the Digital: Digital Methods for Qualitative Research’, organised by CSDS, New Delhi and University of Naples, on March 19, 2024.
    • Participated (online) in the ‘Magazine and Newspaper Writing for Sociologists’ workshop conducted by the Sociological Review Foundation, U.K., on January 22, 2024.

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