Areas of Specialisation
Disciplinary Areas
Psychology
Positive Technology, Positive Psychology, Psychological Interventions, Indian Knowledge System and Holistic Well-Being | Emotions, memory, and decision making: implications for clinical disorders | Social Psychology, Social Identity, Intergroup Relations, Group based Emotions (particularly, Humiliation, Shame, and Disgust), Critical Psychology of Caste, Crowd behavior, Mass Gatherings, Mass Emergencies, Leadership and Mobilization | Neural and computational bases of inhibitory control and mind-wandering, and their clinical relevance | Judgments, Decisions and Behavioral economics related to drinking water.
Sociology
Sociology of Education, Sociology of Childhood and Youth, Sociology of Gender, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Social Movements, and Visual Sociology, Disability Studies, Disability History, Aging Studies, Sociology of Impairment and Body, Sociology/Anthropology of Religion, State-Civil Society Relations, Development and Democratisation, Neo-liberal governance, and Human-Animal Relations, Critical Agrarian Studies and Agroecology, Sociology of Food and Health, Sociology of Markets and Commodities, Sociology of Science and Technology, Sociology of Toxicity and Waste, Sociology of Environment
Philosophy
Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Metaphysics of the Self, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Culture and History, Contemporary Indian and Western Thought, History of Ideas, Film and Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, Deep Ecology, Buddhism and Politics, Exile and Travel, Religion and Politics, Peace Studies, Tibetan Literature and Politics, Ethnicities and Margins, Children and Literature, Interdisciplinary interfaces with themes in Economics, Sociology, History, Psychology, Biology and Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology
Economics
Microeconomic theory, Game theory, Mechanism design, Decision theory, Industrial organisation, Macroeconomics, Monetary economics, International trade, economic growth, Development economics, Health economics, labour economics, Agricultural economics, energy economics, environment, education, demography, India's official statistics, economic inequality, applied econometrics, Inference and econometric theory, Issues in India's economic development, Labour and Employment, Issues in India's Macroeconomy.
Linguistics
Theoretical Syntax, Morpho-Syntax, Phonology, Computational linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax-Semantics interface, Syntax-Pragmatics interface
Literature
Authorship, Book History, Contemporary Fiction, The City and Literature, Digital Humanities, Feminist Thought, Gender and Sexuality, Indian English Literature, Literature and Cinema, Narratology, Performance and Theatre Studies, Philosophy of Literature, South Asian Literature, Twentieth century Literature.
Multi-disciplinary Areas
Media Archaeology, History of Technology, Digital Behaviour, Intellectual Property, Technology Ethics, Pedagogy and Technology, Technology and Food Systems, Algorithms and Society, Critical Code Studies, Future of Work, Technology and Public Health, Social Epistemology of Internet, Ontology of Digital Worlds, Art and Technology, Industrial Policy and Technology Policy, Technology and Democracy, Science and Technology Studies of Environment/Ecology, Infrastructure Studies, Digital Cultural Analytics, Social Studies of Technology, Ethical-Legal and Social aspects of new/emerging Techno Science, Digital Science and Technology Studies, Human-Machine Interaction, Histories of Technologies and Science in South Asia; Science and Technology Studies and Agriculture, Social Studies of Health-Environment Intersections.