CURRICULUM VITAE March 2012
NAME: Sujata Patel
ADDRESS:
OFFICE Department of Sociology
University of Hyderabad
Central University P.O.
Hyderabad 500 046.
Tel : 040 2313 3261 (O-D) 2313 3250 (O) E mail: patel.sujata09@gmail.com
RESIDENCE B-9 Faculty Quarters,
University of Hyderabad
Central University P.O
Hyderabad 500 046
040 2301 1947 (R)
PRESENT
POSITION Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of Hyderabad
LANGUAGES
SPOKEN: English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
Social Theory, Urban Studies, State and Society Studies, Social Movements.
EDUCATION
1984 Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
1976 M.A. Dalhousie University, Canada
1975 M.A. University of Bombay
1973 B.A. University of Bombay
1974
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
June 2009 onwards: Professor of Sociology, University of Hyderabad
1996-2009 Professor of Sociology, University of Pune
1992-96 Professor of Sociology, SNDT Womens University, Bombay
1991 Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
1984-85 Lecturer in Sociology, School of Planning, Ahmadabad
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
1987-91 University Grants Commission Research Scientist B
1986-87 Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES
2009-12 Member, Academic Council, Madras Institute of
Development Studies, Chennai
2008-11 Member, Standing Committee of Research Institutes and Research Centres,
Indian Council of Social Sciences.
2003-08 Member, Advisory Committee, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of
Sociology, University of Delhi
1999-02 Visitors Nominee for Social Sciences for Selection Committee, Indira Gandhi
National Open University, New Delhi
1999-03 Expert, Board of Studies of Sociology, Himachal Pradesh University
* Expert, Board of Studies of Sociology, Dharwad University
1996-99 Expert, Board of Studies, Sociology, University of Goa
1995-1999 Expert, Board of Studies, Sociology, University of Bombay
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES AT PLACE OF EMPL0YMENT
2010 onwards Member, Sabbatical Committee, University of Hyderabad
2010-11 Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, University of
Hyderabad
2009 onwards Member, School Board, University of Hyderabad
2009 onwards Member, Academic Council, University of Hyderabad
2009 onwards Member, University Court, University of Hyderabad
2008 Member, University with Potential for Excellence Core
Committee, University of Pune
2006 Member, XI Plan committee, University of Pune
2006-9 Member, Implementation Committee, University with Potential for Excellence,
University of Pune
2006 Member, Vision 2020 Committee, University of Pune
2001-2006 Chair, Credit and Semester Committee (Social Sciences and Humanities)
2001-2004 Chair, Accommodation Committee, University of Pune
2001-2003 Member, X Plan Committee, University of Pune
2001-2002 Member, University Autonomy Committee, University of Pune
2001-2005 Member, Research Scholarship Committee, Furniture Allocation Committee
1999- 2002 Head, Department of Sociology, University of Pune
1996-2006 Coordinator, Canadian Studies Programme, University of
Pune
1992-1995 Chairman, Board of Studies, Sociology, SNDT Womens University,
Bombay
1992-1996 Head Department of Sociology, SNDT Womens University, Bombay
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS
2009 Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l”€™homme,
Paris, April
2008 Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of
Hyderabad
2002 Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, March
1999 Visiting Professor, Japan Centre for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology,
Osaka, Japan, April-July
1996 Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, February
1994 Fellow, Shastri Indo-Canadian Programme, Department of
Anthropology, McGill University, March-July
1992 Guest Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, Amsterdam, April-July
1992 Research Scholar at residence in Maison des Sciences de l”€™homme, Paris, May
“€“ July
1997 Research Fellow, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, April- July
ATTENDANCE IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES: At least 2 every year for the
last ten years.
Research Grants, Consultancies and Evaluations:
Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants Commission (India) Social
Science Research Council (New York), DFID Projects (UK), Economic Social Research
Council (UK), Social Science Research Council (Canada) National research Foundation
(South Africa), University of Johannesburg and Canadian International Development
Agency.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
ORGANISATIONS
2006-2010 Member Programme Committee, International Sociological Association
2002-2006 Vice President, (National Associations), International
Sociological Association
2000-2006 Member, Governing Board, Global Development Network
1998-2002 Executive Committee Member, International Sociological
Association
1996-1998 Member (South Asia), Social Science Research Council,
New York
JOURNALS
2010-13 Member: Editorial Committee: Method(e)s. African Review of Social Sciences
Methodology, Dakar , 2010-2013
2009 onwards Scientific Board, New Cultural Frontiers (online journal)
2009-11 International Advisory Committee, South African Review
of Sociology
2009-12 Editorial Board, City and Society Journal of American
Anthropological Association, Wiley-Blackwell
2004-11 Review of Books Editorial Committee, International Sociology
2001-10 Corresponding Editor, International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies,
Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge
2005-08 Member, Editorial Board, Global Governance, Lynne Reinner Publisher
1998-06 Member, Editorial Board, Current Sociology, Sage Publications, London
2004-05 Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Sociological Bulletin
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ASSIGNMENTS
2006-09 Book Project titled Exclusions, Social Capital and
Citizenship. Collaboration with Department of Sociology,
University of Johannesburg
2006-08 Creating Archival and Documentation teaching and
Research material, UPE, University of Pune. Available
online: http://www.unipune.ac.in/snc/cssh/Archieves.html
2006-08 Book Project: Formation of Sociology in India: Documenting
Knowledge, Scholars, Practices and Institutions, UPE,
University of Pune, to be published by Oxford
2006-08 Book Project: International Handbook of Diverse
Sociological Traditions, to be published by Sage London
2004-2005 Project Coordinator: Faith based Organisations and Service 000Delivery,
Centre for Future State, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex project for
DFID
2002-2004 Project Coordinator: Thirty Years of Employment Guarantee Scheme in
Maharashtra. Centre for Future State, Institute of Development Studies, University of
Sussex project for DFID
1998-2000 International Research Collaborations. A Case of the Indo-Dutch
Programme of Alternatives in Development. Social Science Research Council, New York.
1998-1999 The Shiv Sena in Bombay/Mumbai. Globalisation, Culture and Politics.
Project sponsored by the Department of Sociology, University of Pune.
1993 Environmental Regime and Politics of Identity. The Case of James Bay North
Quebec Agreement, Canada.
1988-89 Project Director: Womens Participation, the Environment and Economy: The
Baliapal Agitation against Missile Test Range.
1985-86 Project Director: Political Economy of Riots, Ahmedabad.
1984 Project Director: Human Rights and Needs, Dalit, Tribal and Womens Movement in
the Post Seventies, a UNU project for SETU Centre for Social Action and Knowledge,
Ahmedabad.
1983-84 Project Director Contract Labour in Textile Industry A Ministry of Labour,
Government of India project for Self Employed Womens Association, Ahmedabad
1983 Wrote research paper, The Anand Pattern: Its Socio-Historical Origins for the Indo
Dutch Programme Project, Operation Flood: Development Alternatives.
1976 Senior Research Associate, Designed and supervised research of “The New
Entrepreneur”€, an in-house project of the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of
India
PUBLICATIONS
SERIES EDITOR
2010-2012 Sage Studies in International Studies Books and Current Sociology
Monographs
2008 onwards [Oxford India] Studies in Contemporary Society. Oxford University Press,
Delhi
2007 onwards Cities and The Urban Imperative. Rutledge, Taylor and Francis, New Delhi
BOOKS PUBLISHED
2012 Contemporary India and South Africa. Legacies, Identities, Dilemmas Delhi,
Routledge(co-edited with Tina Uys)
2011 Doing Sociology in India. Genealogies, Locations, Practices, Delhi, Oxford
University Press
2010 The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions (ed)
London, Sage
2006 Urban Studies. Readers in Sociology and Social Anthropology. (Series Editor TN
Madan) Delhi, Oxford University Press. (co-editor with Kushal Deb)
2003 Bombay and Mumbai. The City in Transition Delhi, Oxford University Press.
(Co-editor with Jim Masselos),
2002 Thinking Social Science in India. Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner, New Delhi,
Sage (Co-editor with Jashodhara Bagchi and Krishna Raj)
1995/96/2000 Bombay Metaphor for Modern India Bombay and Delhi, Oxford University
Press (Co-editor with Alice Thorner)
1995/96/2000 Bombay Mosaic of Modern Culture Bombay and Delhi, Oxford University
Press, (Co-editor with Alice Thorner)
1985 Making of Industrial Relations. Ahmedabad Textile Industry 1918-1939, Delhi,
Oxford University Press
SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS
Co editor Special issue on Indian Sociology, South African Journal of
Sociology, June 2009
BOOKS: UNDER PREPARATION
2012 Exclusion, social capital and citizenship: Contested
Transitions in South Africa and India. (co-editor with Tina Uys) , Delhi, Orient Blackswan
2012 Colonial Modernity and Contemporary Processes: Essays on
History, Power and Domination, Delhi, Oxford
JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS: PUBLISHED
2012 Introduction. Legacies and New Identities. Contemporary
India and South Africa Compared in Sujata Patel and Tina Uys (eds). . Contemporary
India and South Africa. Legacies, Identities, Dilemmas, Delhi, Routledge, pp1-20 (jointly
with Tina Uys)
2011 Sociology in India: Trajectories and Challenges
Contributions to Indian Sociology, 45 (3) 427-435
2011 Ruminating on sociological traditions in India in Sujata Patel (ed) Doing sociology in
India: Genealogies, Locations and Practices,Delhi, Oxford
2011 Social anthropology or Marxist sociology? Assessing the
Contesting sociological visions of M.N.Srinivas and
A.R.Desai in Sujata Patel (ed) Doing sociology in India:
Genealogies, Locations and Practices, Delhi, Oxford
2010 The Imperative and the Challenge of Diversity. Reconstructing Sociological
Traditions in an Unequal World, M. Burawoy et al (ed.s) Facing an Unequal World,
Challenges for a Global Sociology Vol.1, Taiwan, Academia Sinica, 48-62
2010 Sociologys “€Other”€™. The Debate on European Universals in
The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (Social Sciences
and Humanities),UNESCO www.eolss.net.net
2010 Seva, sangathanas and gurus: service and the making
of the Hindu nation in Gurpreet Mahajan and Surinder
Jodhka (ed.s) Religion, Community and Development,
Delhi, Routledge
2010 Introduction.Diversities of Sociological Traditions in Sujata
Patel, (ed) The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological
Traditions, Sage London
2010 At crossroads. Sociology in India in Sujata Patel, (ed) The
ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, Sage
London
2009 In Conversation with Professor Sujata Patel, Interview with
Pooja Adhikary, ISA E Bulletin, Number 14, November
2009 Doing Urban Studies in India. The Challenges. Special
issue on Indian Sociology, South African Review of
Sociology, 40 (1)
2007 The Ethnography of the Labouring Poor in India
Introduction, The Jan Breman Omnibus, Delhi, Oxford University Press
2007 Towards a praxiological understanding of Indian Society The
Sociology of A.R. Desai in Satish Deshpande, Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi (ed.s)
Anthropology of the East: The Indian Foundations of a Global Discipline., New Delhi,
Permanent Black
2007 Sociological Study of Religion, Colonial Modernity, and Nineteenth
Century Majoritarianism. Economic and Political Weekly, 42 (13), 1089-1094. Earlier
published as Colonial Modernity, the Sociological Study of Religion, and Nineteenth
Century Majoritarianism, International Sociological Association E Bulletin, Winter,
November, 2006
2007 Mumbai. The Mega-City of a Poor Country in Klaus Segbers (ed) The Making of
