Doctoral Program

Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities is India’s first transnational humanities school, weaving through multiple spheres of social sciences, arts, culture, literature, nature, and cognitive sciences. Envisioned within such an interdisciplinary framework, our PhD program emphasizes the growing need of interconnected learning for sustainable human development in the 21^st century. In the process, we aim to train and equip the next generation educators, practitioners, researchers, and leaders, with industry-ready, high market-value tools and techniques, to harness their creative and critical thinking skills for future nation building and betterment of society. Our distinguished faculty have received their MS/MA, doctoral, and post-doctoral degrees from the leading institutions of the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Australia, besides various leading universities of India and Southeast Asia, and published extensively in international journals, as well as literary, culture, and art magazines, of the highest repute.  

Broad Areas of Research

• Literary and Cultural Studies: Comparative literature; literature, class, and caste; Food literary studies; African and South Asian Diasporas; Edwardian and Modernist British Literature, Indian English Writing, Comparative Literature (Urdu-Hindi); English and Indo-Persian, Elizabethan, and Jacobean British Literature; Literary Translation – Practice and Theory, Postcolonial Theory
• Political Science-IR: Nationalism studies; political theory; China studies; Asian security; Indian politics, parties, and movements
• Psychology: Psychopathology; Differences in Sex Development; Adaptation and Developmental Plasticity in Adulthood; Geriatric Behavioural Science; Socio-cultural Psychology of Marginalization; Creativity and Imagination; Social Identities; Mindfulness and Buddhist Psychology
• Sociology: Migration and Diaspora; Education; Governance and Development; Visual Anthropology; Cities, Space & Culture; Science and Medicine; Digital Sociology; Culture and Identities.
• Philosophy: Philosophy of mind/language (Western/Indian); Epistemology (Western/Indian); Moral and Political Philosophy (Western/Indian); Analytical/Continental; Anglophone Indian Philosophy
• History: Migration and Citizenship; Tribal and Environmental Histories; Early Islam; Contemporary Islam; Contemporary Buddhism; Tibetan exile
• Environment and Sustainability Studies: Water Resources Research, Air Quality, Waste-Circular Economy, Environmental Policy; Energy Transition, Climate-smart Agriculture, Soil-Water Pollution, Green Marketing, Environmental Geoinformatics, Gender and Environment, Environmental Health
• Economics: Development Economics; Law and Economics; Applied Economics
• Fine Arts: Visual Art; Art History; Community Art