Ph.D. Programme in Sociology and Anthropology
| The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University invites applications for its PhD programme for the academic year 2025-2026 Application window opens on December 28, 2024 Application window closes on February 25, 2025 Shortlisted candidates will be notified by the mid-April, 2025 The shortlisted candidates will sit for the takeaway exam in the last week of April The shortlisted candidates from the written exam will be called for final interviews in early-May For inquiries, please write to phd.soa@ashoka.edu.in Webinar Recording: Navigating the Ph.D. Application Process and Essential Documents |
The Department acknowledges the unique relationship between sociology and social anthropology as it has developed and flourished in India. We emphasise the critical empiricism, theoretical engagement and comparative approach central to our best disciplinary traditions. Our faculty is actively engaged in long-term fieldwork and ethnographic research in different parts of South Asia and the Himalayan region. Faculty strengths are wide-ranging and include the study of language, law, religion, violence, nature, agrarian change, the state, sovereignty, borderlands, infrastructures, markets, political economy, mobility, informality, popular culture and mental health. Our department encourages interdisciplinary explorations with allied fields of social thought and inquiry, including history, economics, political science, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, environmental studies, computer science, planning and design, natural sciences, arts and aesthetics, law and media.
Interested candidates should visit the department website and acquaint themselves with faculty specializations.
