Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences

Regular Faculty

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  Bejoy K. Thomas

  Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academics, Graduate Studies)

  Humanities and Social Sciences

  Water resources (agrarian and peri-urban); Adaptation; Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, 6 and 13; Multidimensional poverty

  bejoy@iiserpune.ac.in
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  Chaitra Redkar

  Associate Professor, Dy. Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Dean (Student and Campus Activities)

  Humanities and Social Sciences

  Political Ideas in Modern India, Gandhian Studies, Gender Studies, Indian Politics

  chaitra@iiserpune.ac.in
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  Pooja Sancheti

  Assistant Professor

  Humanities and Social Sciences

  Postmodernist fiction, Magical Realism, Myth, English Language Teaching, Narrative Theories, Art & Aesthetics

  pooja@iiserpune.ac.in
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  Pushkar Sohoni

  Associate Professor and Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences

  Humanities and Social Sciences

  Architecture, Historic Preservation, History of Architecture and Art, Numismatics, Indo-Persian Studies, Material Culture, Medieval and Modern History, Languages and Scripts

  pushkar.sohoni@iiserpune.ac.in
• Shalini Sharma

  Associate Professor

  Humanities and Social Sciences

  Environmental justice, Political ecology, Environment and development studies, Media studies, Memory studies, Oral history, Climate justice

  shalini@iiserpune.ac.in
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  Venketeswara R. Pai

  Associate Professor

  Humanities and Social Sciences

  History and Development of Astronomy and Mathematics in India, History and Development of Vakya system of Astronomy, Kerala School of Astronomy, Manuscriptology, Scientific Literature in Sanskrit and Malayalam, Paninian Grammar

  venkateswara@iiserpune.ac.in