CONTRIBUTOR:

Sarbeswar Sahoo

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Sociology

INSTITUTION:

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

BIOGRAPHY:

Sarbeswar Sahoo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2009-10. During 2011-13, he was Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. Dr. Sahoo has held visiting positions at several universities, including Roskilde University (Denmark), National University of Singapore (Singapore), University of Muenster (Germany), University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and Cardiff University (UK). His research interests include Globalization, Civil Society and Democratization, and Sociology of Religion and Violence in South Asia. His recent publication is: Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interests (London, New York: Routledge, 2013).