Vinay Suhalka
Assistant Professor
Sociology
CV Summary:
Vinay Suhalka is a sociologist who joined IIT Delhi in 2025. His research areas include disability studies, disability history, aging studies and sociology of religion.
Contact Information
Email: suhalkavinay@iitd.ac.in; vinaysuhalka1@gmail.com
Office: GP 14, MGGP, IIT Delhi
Office landline: 011-26591347
Research Areas
Disability Studies, Sociology of Religion, Disability History, Aging Studies
Academic Background
PhD (Sociology) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (2024)
MA (Social Work) Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2011)
BA (Honours) Economics, Hans Raj College, Delhi University (2009)
Employment History
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at FLAME University, Pune (Maharashtra)
April 2024- April 2025
Research Associate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
September 2023- March 2024
Assistant Professor (Temporary)
Department of Social Work, Central University of Rajasthan, Bandarsindri, Ajmer (Rajasthan)
January 2014- January 2016
Publications
Suhalka, V. (co-authored with Samanta, T.). 2024. Disability’s Discontents for Doing Sociology: Building the Sociological Imagination
https://doingsociology.org/2024/08/22/disabilitys-discontents-vinay-suha...
Suhalka, V. 2024. Social Work in Disability Studies: Insights from anthropology, for TISS Journal of Disability Studies, a peer reviewed journal published by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Volume IV, Issue I. https://tiss.ac.in/uploads/files/TISS_Journal_June_2024_CTP_FOR_WEB.pdf
Suhalka, V. 2022. Pilgrimage versus Tourism in Jharkhand. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol LVII, No. 53. December 31.
Conferences
Suhalka, V. 2025. Cripping Ageing Studies: What can gerontology learn from disability studies?, as part of a symposium titled Integrating Critical Disability Studies with Ageing Research: Insights from South Asia, at 54th British Society of Gerontology Conference held at Surrey (UK) June 26, 2025 (presented virtually).
Suhalka, V. (co-presented with Tannistha Samanta) 2025. Mobility without prostheses: Specters of disability in the ‘world-class’ city of Mumbai, for a panel titled Diffracting Disability: Dis/Enabling Diffraction at the STS Hub 2025 held at the Humboldt University, Berlin- Germany, March 11-14.
Suhalka, V. 2025. Finding a lost botanical garden: Notes for an educational institute's future ecology, for a panel titled Diffracting Colonial Legacies at the STS Hub 2025 held at the Humboldt University, Berlin- Germany, March 11-14.
Suhalka, V. 2024. “No Bigger than Dwarf”: Disability in Princely Colonial India and the Life of Maharana Bhupal Singh of Udaipur, at a conference on Disability History: New Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches (organized jointly by Uppsala University and Jonkoping University), at Munster, Germany, November 6-8 (presented virtually).
Suhalka, V. 2024. Disability and prosthetic use: contestations of technology by people with disability, for a panel titled Medicine and Technology at the 11th Creative Theory Colloquium held at the India International Centre, New Delhi, 5th-7th September, 2024.
Suhalka, V. 2023. Embodied Faith: Exploring Relationality and Interdependence through Disabled Bodies in Mumbai. 2ndAccessing the Divine Conference,organized by Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Library, Chestnut Hill, Boston, March 3, 2023 (presented virtually).
Popular Articles
2024. ‘On Kishori Amonkar’s birth anniversary’ (written in Hindi) for The Wire Hindi. https://thewirehindi.com/271980/remembering-indian-classical-vocalist-ki...
2023. ‘On Professor Claudia Goldin’s Economics Nobel 2023’ (written in Hindi) for The Wire Hindi. https://thewirehindi.com/259612/nobel-prize-professor-claudia-goldin-pay...
2021. ‘Death Rituals and Covid 19’ on The Wire’s Livewire. https://livewire.thewire.in/personal/death-rituals-and-covid-19/ May 6.
2021. ‘Falling in Love with Trees at Academic Campuses’ on The Wire’s Livewire https://livewire.thewire.in/campus/falling-in-love-with-trees-at-academi... January 19.
Teaching Areas
Disability Studies, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Disability