Author: Vivek Kumar

Vivek Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University where he earned his Ph D. A recipient of Fulbright Teacher”s Fellowship, Dr Kumar has been a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA where he taught a course on “social Exclusion and Inclusion in Indian Society” during the Spring Semester, 2012. He has also been a visiting fellow at Humboldt University, Germany in 2013 as a DAAD –UGC fellow. He has recently completed a research project, “Social Status and Social Attitudes in India: A Study of Indian College Students, ” with Harvard University and University of British Columbia. Dr Kumar was appointed as Lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai in 1996 and has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Pune, Jammu, and Mumbai. His publications include the edited volume Dynamics of Change and Continuity in the Age of Globalization: Voices from the Margins (2009); India”s Roaring Revolution (2006) and Dalit Leadership in India (2002). He was Chairman, Sub-Group on Awareness Generation, Statistics, Monitoring, Innovation and Research for the formulation of the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) constituted by the Ministry of Empowerment and Social Justice, Government of India (2012). He was also member, Committee on Mid-term appraisal of Tribal Sub-Plan and Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan of the 11th Five Year Plan constituted by the Planning Commission of India.