Faculty
Dr. Devanjan Khuntia
Assistant Professor
Alliance School of Liberal Arts and Humanities
Dr Devanjan Khuntia teaches Sociology of Media, Urban Sociology, Crime and Deviance and Gender. His primary research frameworks are based on the complex relationships between neo-liberal global market economy, formation of social spaces, political economy of news media in contemporary India and its role in shaping public consciousness.
Dr Khuntia has been awarded PhD in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (Jawaharlal Nehru University) New Delhi. He has an M.Phil in Sociology from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; MA in Rural Development from (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi); Post Graduate Diploma in Radio & Television Journalism from the Department of Film & Television Studies, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, (New Delhi); and a undergraduate degree in English Literature from Maharaja Agrasen College, Delhi University.
Dr Khuntia has served in various academic and research positions for various national and international universities such as University of Gottingen (Germany); National University of Singapore (Singapore); Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), and the Centre for Development Studies (India). He is also a trained Broadcast Journalist having served at various National Media houses in New Delhi and have expertise in crime and investigative journalism. He has received formal training on offline and online video and audio editing, radio broadcasting and cinema media production from the prestigious Electronic Media Production Centre (EMPC) IGNOU Maidan Garhi New Delhi.
He has received prestigious Kulapati KM Munshi Award from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan New Delhi in 2006 towards producing an outstanding documentary film depicting the lives of newspaper vendors in Delhi. The same year he also received Kulapati KM Munshi Award from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan New Delhi towards making a remarkable Radio feature programme – Ek Katha Bhrun Ki, depicting the social issue of female foeticide. The radio programme was produced specifically keeping in mind rural audience of the Hindi speaking belt of India. The programme was broadcasted regularly on Gyan Vani FM Radio 105.6 FM for several years.
Title: Vertical Urbanism and Horizontal Urban Populism. (Forth Coming, 2024)
Book Title: Encyclopaedia of New Populism and Responses in 21st Century.
Publisher: Springer
Title: Displacement, Citizenship and Media: A Sociological Study of Paroja Tribe
and its Identity Construction
Book Title: Xenophobia in Media: Critical Global Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Date: January 2024
Title: Indian Screen Cultures and the Redefinition of Nationhood: The Evolution of Contemporary Productions and the Myth of ‘National Security’
Journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Publisher:- Taylor & Francis
Date: September 2023
Title: Women, Marginalization and the Role of Mediated Communication: A Sociological Study of Contemporary India.
Journal: Journal of Social Science Research
Publisher: Silapathar Govt College Assam (UGC Care List)
Date: August 2022
Title: Structuring the ‘Expected’: New Social Media Platforms and the Role of Women in Urban Spaces.
Book Title: Handbook of Research on Women’s Issues and Rights in Developing World. Publisher: IGI Global, USA
Date: March 2018
Title: Spatial Magnitudes and Social Metaphysics: Revisiting Aristotlianism
Journal: JMS International Multi-disciplinary e-journal (UGC Care List)
Date: April 2018
Title: The Electronic Marginalization of Women in Contemporary India: New Social Media Platforms and the Mediated Gender Roles.
Journal: The Fourth Word.
Publisher: National Institute of Social Work and Social Science (NISWASS)
Date: April 2016
Article: A Journey to the Land of Warriors
Publication: Development Alternatives, Vol 18 No. 03
Date: March 2008
Article: Bias Haunting: The Fourth Pillar of Democracy?
Publication: Development Alternatives, Vol 18 No. 07
Date: July 2008
