IIT Bombay Social Science Department

Hi I would like to have the details about the department of humanities & social sciences which is part of the IIT, Bombay?

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The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences was established in 1958. At present, the Department has five orders, to be specific, Economics, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and a Cell called Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit (CISTS).

The department offers a wide range of courses at the B.Tech , M.Tech, M.phil and Ph. D. levels. The college classes taught by the Department personnel point at making the science and innovation understudies mindful of the different issues concerning man and society.

They are intended to sharpen understudies to the more extensive social, social, financial, moral and altruistic issues included in social change. The courses at the PG level are progressed. These courses go for developing basic personality and diagnostic capacities. The division has amazing open doors and offices for the quest for innovative work.

Educating Methodology

The technique for educating and preparing incorporate addresses, instructional exercises, subjective and quantitative strategies, case considers, exchange sessions, courses, field visits, smaller than expected ventures and papers. Varying media helps are likewise utilized as a part of educating and preparing.

The Faculty

Economics:
A. Ramanathan
Managerial Economics, Applied Econometrics, Monetary Economics.

P.L. Trivedi
Monetary Economics and International Finance.

K. Narayanan
Industrial Economics, Multinationals and Technology Transfer, Industry – Environment Linkages, International Trade, Applied Econometrics.

Haripriya G.S.
Natural resource and environmental economics, Water resource Economics, Green Accounting, Environmental Policy.

Puja Padhi
Financial Economics, Monetary Economics

Surajit Bhattacharyya
Micro and Macroeconomic Theory(Teaching),Industrial Organization (Research), Corporate Investment and Econometric Applications (Research).

English:

M.S. Malshe
Modern Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Linguistics and English Language Teaching.

Neelima Talwar
Indian and Western Drama, Modern Literature, Creative Writing, Literature/Drama and Contemporary Media, Conscientization method for Language Teaching.

Sudha Shastri Novel, Victorian Studies, Postmodern Literature and
Intertextual theory

Vaijayanthi Sarma
Syntactic theory, First language acquisition, Linguistic deficits, Language processing, Conservation of endangered languages (especially Dravidian minority languages)

Sharmila
Women’s Studies, Autobiography Studies, “Crisis” in English Studies, African American Writing

Paulomi Chakraborty
The Partition of 1947, the 'Turbulent 40s' in Bengal, South Asian Fiction--in English and in Translation, Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Feminist Theory and Women's Writing

Philosophy:

P.R. Bhat
Philosophy of Language, Contemporary Western Philosophy, Meta-Ethics.

C.D. Sebastian
Buddhism, Classical Indian Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Comparative Philosophy, Vedanta Philosophy

Ranjan K. Panda
Philosophy of Mind, Analytic Philosophy

Vikram Singh
Sirola Analytic Philosophy, Contemporary Western Philosophy

Ratikanta
Panda Wittgenstein’s Private Language, Argument: A Re-examination Argument in Philosophy of Language

Siby K. George
Existentialism, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Applied Ethics

Rajakishore Nath
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science

Pravesh Jung Golay
Contemporary Western Philosophy Psychology

Meenakshi Gupta
Social Psychology, Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Development.

T. Bhattacharya Health and Clinical Psychology, Psychosomatic disorders,
Stress & Coping, subjective well-being, ergonomics, cross cultural personality.

Pooja Purang
Organizational Behaviour, Culture and Ethics in Organizations, HR issues, Personality

Azizuddin Khan
Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Neuro Psychology, Ergonomics, Event Related Potential

Mrinmoyi K.
Social Psychology, Fertility, Health Behaviours, Role of Psychology in Development Sociology:

K.Subuddhi Political Sociology, Sociology of Development, Rural Sociology, Environmental Sociology.

R.T.Robinson Religion and Social Movements, Sociology of Contemporary
India, Social Change, Family and Kinship

D.Parthasarathy
Urban Sociology, Sociology of Development, Ethnic relations/Communal violence, Sociology of agriculture Social Impact Assessment

Kushal Deb
Urban Sociology, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Sociological Theory, Sociology of Development

Sarmistha Pattanaik
Environmental Sociology, Social and Environmental Movements, Environmental Politics with a focus on Social inequality and Natural Resource Conflicts especially in Rural India, Issues of livelihood and problems of marginalized class and Political Ecology.

Ramesh Bairy T.S.
Contemporary Caste, Contemporary Karnataka, Inequalities and Hierarchies

Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit (CISTS):

Malhar A. Kulkarni
Sanskrit language, Paninian Grammar, Philosophy of language,
Aesthetics in Sanskrit Texts

K. Ramasubramanian
Astronomy (Jyotisha), Mathematics (Ganita), Logic (Nyayasastra),
Philosophy (Advaita-Vedanta), Meta-Physics, Selfdevelopment,
Application of Non-linear dynamics