Ph.D in Sociology
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), South Asian University Delhi
Master of Arts (M.A.), Jawaharlal Nehru University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ambedkar University Delhi
Assistant Professor, Centre for Writing Studies
| dnarang@jgu.edu.in | |
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| ORCID ID | 0009-0009-0896-6102 |
| Key Expertise | Labour, Everyday Economy, Migration, Elderly, Family, Caste, Community, Work |
Ph.D in Sociology
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), South Asian University Delhi
Master of Arts (M.A.), Jawaharlal Nehru University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ambedkar University Delhi
I did my PhD from the Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi. My PhD is titled, ‘Mobility and Moorings: An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Economy among a Laboring Group in Rajasthan’. My fieldwork is in rural Rajasthan among formerly itinerant communities as they transition towards wage-earning and labor migration in agriculture, construction and mining worksites. I am interested in understanding the intimate worlds of precarious labor and landscapes of poverty. In my doctoral thesis, she examines the way political economy informs experiences and subjectivities in the making of self, family and community.
I am also an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Writing Studies, OP Jindal University since 2021. I teach courses on academic writing and story-telling in the social sciences.
Academic Writing
Advanced Academic Writing
Critical Academic Reading and Writing
Freshmen Writing Seminar
Junior Research Fellowship
National Eligibility Test - Qualified
Society and Culture in South Asia
Workshops conducted:
1) Workshop titled ‘Academic Reading and Writing’ at Department of Sociology, Central University of Haryana, Mahindergarh on 26/09/22.
1.“Defining Adulteration as Theft: the Work of Experts in the Economy of Food Safety” at a conference titled ‘Of Mediation and Power: Intermediaries in the South Asian Societies’ held at Centres de Sciences Humanies (CSH) at New Delhi – April 2019
2. “Place-Making among a Landless Community,” Graduate Student Conference Understanding Land: Configuring Spaces, Making Identities, Shiv Nadar University — January 2021
3. “This Disease Won’t Affect Those That Work in the Sun: Labour Cutlture amidst the Pandemic,” Heidelberg Indology Conference Disruptions, University of Heidelberg (Hybrid) — November 2021
4. “From Mangnewale to Mazdoor: An Ethnographic Engagement among the Kalbelia Community in Southern Rajasthan,” International Conference organised by NIT Silchar and Maynooth University — October 2022
5. “The Making of the Labouring Family: Ethnographic Explorations of Mothering and Childhood in Rural Rajasthan,” International Workshop organised by Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies and Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependency Studies — September 2022
6. Panel Convenor, “Modernities, Mobilities and Uncertainties,” 19th International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) World Congress, New Delhi — October 2023 (Supported by the Commission on Nomadic Peoples)
7. Poster Exhibition on Sting Operations and Scandals of Adulteration at the Future of Milk and Dairy in South Asia by Indian Culinary Agenda at SAU in February 2025
8. “Poverty as a Methodological Challenge of Coherence,” Researching the Contemporary: A Methods Lab for Young Scholars, O.P. Jindal Global University — October 2025
| dnarang@jgu.edu.in | |
| ORCID ID | 0009-0009-0896-6102 |
| Key Expertise | Labour, Everyday Economy, Migration, Elderly, Family, Caste, Community, Work |