The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) at IISER Pune plays a complex role in the context of the institute. The faculty members of HSS offer courses and conduct research in fundamental humanities and social sciences disciplines and interdisciplinary areas that cut across different social and natural sciences.
The department is an academic centre in its own right, generating scholarship in disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, development studies, history, literature, film studies, and political science, among others. At the same time, it is engaged in furthering the greater mission of the institution, exploring the critical interface between the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Through such interfaces and collaborations across disciplines, the faculty help to shape social and environmental policy, generate interdisciplinary pedagogic content, and push community level social change.
The department has a doctoral programme in which advanced research is carried out by candidates in areas that can be supervised by our faculty. Prospective PhD applicants can write to individual faculty members for informal queries and apply through the PhD application portal at this link.
Prospective faculty applicants are advised to contact Dr Chaitra Redkar (chaitra@iiserpune.ac.in) for informal enquiries and apply through the faculty application portal at this link. The department envisions breadth and depth of disciplines across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences, and welcomes well-regarded scholars and teachers from various HSS disciplines to apply.
The current faculty members and their areas of research interests are listed below.
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