Teaching
Courses Offered
1. Indian Society and Culture
2. Digital Society
3. Economic Reforms and Society
4. Sociology of Economic Life
5. Principles of Sociology
6. Theorizing Digital Transformations
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: sruti[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in
Contact Number: 0000000000
Office Number: +91-326-223-03762235078
Personal Page: Under Construction
About Me: I specialize in Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work and Labour, Digital Sociology and Qualitative research
Research Interest: Economic Sociology, Sociology Of Work And Labour, Sociology Of Law, Digital Sociology,
Courses Offered
1. Indian Society and Culture
2. Digital Society
3. Economic Reforms and Society
4. Sociology of Economic Life
5. Principles of Sociology
6. Theorizing Digital Transformations
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology
PhD Thesis Title: Gold and Goldsmiths: A Sociological Study of Informal Economy, Work and State Regulation in India
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Masters of Arts, Sociology
Ravenshaw University, Cuttack
Bachelors of Arts, Sociology
Assistant Professor (Sociology), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad (August 2021-continuing)
Assistant Professor (Sociology) at Symbiosis Law School, Pune (From February 2020 – July 2021).
Visiting faculty at Symbiosis Law School, Pune for Sociology of Law, Governance and Political Economy of Law (LLM Course), January 02, 2020 – February 02, 2020.
Contributory Lectures at Savitribai Phule Pune University for Urban Studies (M.A Course), October-November 2019.
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti (Forthcoming). ‘Goldsmiths and Goldsmithery: How the Informal Gold Jewellery Manufacturing Sector Works in India’. Anindita Chakrabarti and Barbara Harriss-White (Forthcoming) Gold In India. Cambridge University Press.
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. 2021. Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 55(2):172-199. doi:10.1177/00699667211007514.
Sruti Kanungo and Vibha Chaturvedi. 2021. ‘Changing Workspace and Rising Precarity: When Work and Family Come Together’. Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications, Special Issue Volume 13 No (15): 179-184. https://bbrc.in/wpcontent/uploads/2021/03/Volune-13-No-15-Special-Issue-2021-Combined.pdf.
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. August 2019. ‘A Sociological Study of Work, Mobility and Enterprise Among the Bengali Goldsmiths of India: A Multi-sited Ethnography’. In Satyajit Majumdar Edakkandi Meethal Reji. 2020. Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice (edited volume). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. “A Sociological Study of Network and Trust among Goldsmiths: A Case Study of Migrant Goldsmiths of West Midnapur (West Bengal)” at Economic Sociology Conference on Trust in Transactions organised by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata in collaboration with the Rabindranath Tagore Centre for Human Development Studies sponsored by ICSSR (November 16-18, 2015).
Sruti Kanungo. “Migration and Networks: A Sociological Study of Migrant Goldsmiths of West Midnapur (West Bengal)” at 41st All India Sociological Conference organised by Indian Sociological Society, at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (27-29 December, 2015) – RC4.
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. “A Sociological Study of Work, Mobility and Enterprise among Goldsmiths of India: A multi-sited Ethnographhy” at International Conference on “Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice” organised by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Supported by Ashoka, DBS Foundation, TATA Trusts and Kennesaw State University (18-20 January, 2017).
Sruti Kanungo. “Vishwakarma Puja: A Study of Modern Guild, Work and Rituals among the Goldsmiths of Paschim Medinipur (West Bengal)” at 43rd All India Sociological Conference organised by Indian Sociological Society on Neo-Liberalism, Consumption and Culture, organised by Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (9-12 November, 2017) – RC-6.
Sruti Kanungo. ‘The Changing Contours of Goldsmithing in India: A Sociological Study of Informal Work, State Regulation and ‘New’ Precarity among Migrant Artisans of West Bengal, India’. 37th International Labour Process Conference, held at University of Vienna, Austria (24-26 April, 2019).
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Goldsmiths’ Guilds in Contemporary India: An Economic Sociology of State Regulation, Informality and Skill” at 45th All India Sociological Conference organised by Indian Sociological Society on, organised by Department of Sociology, University of Kerela (27-29 December, 2019) RC-3.
Sruti Kanungo. “Studying Historical Changes among the Migrant Goldsmiths of West Medinipur (West Bengal)” at the National Workshop on “Doing Sociological Research with Historical Sensibilities” organised by Indian Sociological Society, at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya Law University, Lucknow (7-8 November, 2017).
Sruti Kanungo. “Gold Manufacturing and the New Goldsmiths’ Guilds in Contemporary India: a Sociology of Skill and Informality” in the workshop on From Mines to Market: The Many Lives of Gold in India' on September 16, 2019 at India International Centre, New Delhi. Supported by India Gold Policy Centre, IIM Ahmedabad.
Research Projects Completed: Minor Research Project under the Minor Research Project Scheme of Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR). Topic Titled: The Lost Identity: A Sociological Study of the Silversmiths of Odisha. Project duration: March 2022- March 2023. (Report Submitted on June 2023)
Association Membership
Life Member – Indian Sociological Society
Membership in Research Committee: 3
Administrative Activities
Member, DUGC (2024-Contunuing)
DAC Secretary (2024 - Continuing)
Other Academic Achievements
Third rank in Bachelors.
Institutional Ethics Committee (of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) review to conduct field study for completion of Ph.D Programme.
National Funding provided by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to attend International Conference (within India) organised by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
International Funding provided by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to attend International Labour Process Conference held at University of Vienna, Austria.
Reviewed Paper for The Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology – Compaso.
Ongoing:
1. Madhvi Kumari (Thesis Titled: A Pathway to Sustainability: Decent work for Madhubani Artisans In India's Cultural Economy)
2. Theodora Cecilia (Thesis titled: Queering the Judiciary : A Socio-Legal Exploration of LGBTQ Engagement in the Criminal Justice System)
3. Seonti Sengupta (Broad Area: Sociology of Work and Labour of the Assam Tea Garden Workers)
4. Sai Venkata Rajeswara Anurag Dwibhashyam (Broad Area: Environment Sociology and Circular Economy)
5. Khushboo Kumari (Broad Area: Digital Sociology and Platform Economy)
6. Keshav Sawarn (Broad Area: Public Health and Social Policy)