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    Meet the Associate Professor

    Anandini Dar

    Associate Professor,
    School of Liberal Studies

    prabhakar

    Email : anandini.dar@bmu.edu.in

    • Graduation In: BA (Hons.) English Literature
    • Graduation From: Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Unviersity of Delhi, India
    • Graduation Year: 2005
    • Post Graduation In: Graduate Diploma in Gender Sexuality & Diversity Studies
    • Post Graduation From: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
    • Post Graduation Year: 2006
    • Post Graduation In: MA (Prelim.) in Sociology
    • Post Graduation From: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
    • Post Graduation Year: 2007
    • Doctorate In: Childhood Studies
    • Doctorate From: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
    • Doctorate Year: 2014
    From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additinal Exp. Details
    July 2016 - May 2023 Assistant Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
    2015 - 2016 Adjunct Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
    2014 - 2015 Researcher, CARE India, an NGO for empowering women and girls, Delhi, India.
    2013 Adjunct Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
    2008 - 13 Graduate Assistant, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
    2007-2008 Researcher, Butterflies, programme for street and working children, New Delhi, India.
    • Dar, A, and Chopra, D. (2023) A Report on Placemaking through Co-design Processes: A case study of Jai Hind Camp, Delhi. Centre for Publishing, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi Press. ISBN: 978-93-5895-863-8
    • Dar, A. (2023). De-Colonizing Children’s Suffrage: Engagements with Dr B R Ambedkar’s Ideas on Democracy. In John Wall (Ed.) Exploring Children’s Suffrage. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-031-14540-7
    • Abebe, T., Dar, A. and Lysa, I.M. (2022). Southern Theories and ‘Global’ Childhood Studies (Special Issue Editorial). In Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, Vol. 29(3) 255–275. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682221111690
    • Kannan, D., Dar, A., Duff, S., Sen, H., Nag, S., & Bergere, C. (2022). Childhood, Youth, and Identity: A Roundtable Conversation from the Global South. Journal of Childhood Studies, 20-31. Retrieved from https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/20249
    • Hemmersam, P., Chopra, D., Dar, A., et al.. (2022). Displacement and placemaking in design studios. Architecture_MPS, 21 (1): 4-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2022v21i1.004.
    • Dar, A. (2020). “Political geographies of youth.” In D. Cook (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies (Vol. 1, pp. 1271-1273). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781529714388.n468
    • Dar, A. (2018). Performative Politics: South Asian children’s identities and political agency. Childhood, 25 (4):473-487. https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568218793192
    • Dar, A. (2016). “South Asian American Groups.” In Simon Bronner & Cindy Dell Clark. Eds. Youth Cultures in America. California, USA: Greenwood ABC – CLIO. Pp. 641-645.
    • Series Editor, Studies in Childhood and Youth, Palgrave Macmillan
    • Editorial Board Member, Children’s Geographies Journal, Taylor and Francis
    • Advisory Board Member, The Childism Institute, Rutgers University, USA (2020 onwards)
    • Co-Founder & Co-convener, The Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (www.theccysc.com)
    • Wiscomp Voices of Saahas Awards Special Mention, as part of the WISCOMP’s Hamsa: Campus Equity Initiative, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP). 2020
    • Faculty Exchange Award for Visiting Scholar Position with Indiana University – Bloomington, USA (Awarded by AUD) 2018
    • Graduate Fellowship, Centre for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, USA, 2013
    • David K. Sengstack Endowed Fellowship, Rutgers University, USA, 2010
    • National Science Foundation Scholarship for Enhancing Communication in Cross Disciplinary Research, University of Idaho, USA, 2010
    • Academic Excellence Award, Chisholm College, La Trobe University, Australia, 2006
    • Exchange Program Scholarship Award, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India & La Trobe University, 2005
    • Shri Daulat Rai M. Desai Prize for Leadership, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, 2005