Curriculum Vitae Mukul Sharma
Designation Professor & Head, Department of Development Communication, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi (an autonomous institute since 1965, under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India)
Specialization Environment, Development, Political Science, Media
Date of Birth 27 June 1961
Address Home A 29 E, DDA Flats, Munirka, New Delhi – 110067, INDIA Office Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Campus, New Delhi 110067, INDIA
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EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
PhD Department of Political Science Topic: Caste, Dalits and Ecological Politics in India 2017 University of Delhi (Supervisors: Prof. Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi & Prof. Pradip Kumar Datta, Center for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
MPhil Department of Political Science Topic: Land, Caste and Class: Trends since the 1960s 1987 University of Delhi First Division
MA Hindu College Political Science 1984 University of Delhi First Division
BA (Hons) Hindu College Political Science 1982 University of Delhi Second Division
Intermediate Bhagalpur University Humanities 1978 Bihar First Division
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND WORK EXPERIENCE
Apr 2014-Present Professor & Head, Development Communication, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, India, www.iimc.nic.in
1 Teaching various courses on Environment, Development, Media and Communication. March 2017-Present: Head, Community Radio Empowerment and Resource Centre.
Jan 2011-Mar 2014 South Asia Regional Director, Climate Parliament, United Kingdom, www.climateparl.net Worked with Legislators on renewable energy and climate change.
Jan 2010-Dec 2010 Executive Director, AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, www.aidssocietyap.org Developed programs with poor, marginal, youth, women and people living with HIV and AIDS.
July 2006-June 2009 Country Director, Amnesty International-India, www.amnesty.org Organized Amnesty India programs. Managed more than 10,000 Amnesty members. Alliance and Capacity Building on Human Rights.
July 2004-June 2006 Asia Policy, Advocacy and Campaign Coordinator, ActionAid International Asia Regional Office, Bangkok, Thailand, www.actionaid.org Visualizing and managing advocacy, campaign and policy works, especially in the areas of Right to Food, Human Rights and Violence against Women in 16 Asian countries. Evolving program partnerships and grant making with NGOs.
June 2001-June 2004 Director, Heinrich Boell Stiftung-India, a foundation affiliated with the Green Party of Germany and working mainly on environmental issues, www.boell.de Developed programs in the fields of environment, sustainable development, education, women s rights and health.
July 1998-May 2001 Media and Communication Advisor, Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi, www.pria.org Planned media and communication strategies within and outside the organization for various programs on local self-governance, women s rights and education.
July 1998-Dec 1999 Research Director and Editor, State of India’s Labor Report, Centre for Education and Communication, New Delhi, www.cec-india.org Conceived the research, writing and coordination of a project team on the impact of globalization on India s informal labor and social sector.
July 1984-June 1998 Special Correspondent, Navbharat Times, The Times of India Newspaper Group, New Delhi. Specialized in covering developmental, environmental, labor, social issues and movements and civil rights in India and south Asia.
FELLOWSHIPS/RESEARCH PROJECTS/GRANTS/AWARDS
Dec 2015 Foreign Travel Grant under the Scheme Data Collection Abroad from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, to do archival research in London, for 10 days.
2011-12 Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Topic: Environmentalism, Conservatism, Democracy and Peoples Rights in India.
Mar 2010-Apr 2011 Research Fellow, Research Center of Health Economics, Mahidol University, Bangkok. Topic: Access to Treatment: HIV and AIDS in Asia.
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Jan 2004-Dec 2006 Director, Research Project, ActionAid International. Topic: Positive Voices: Emerging Governance Issues on HIV and AIDS in Asia.
Dec 2004-Jun 2005 Coordinator, Research Project, ActionAid International and Institute of Human Development, New Delhi. Topic: Free Trade Agreements, Food Security and Development in Asia.
2001-2003 United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, Research Grant. Topic: Towards a Peaceful Indian Ocean: A Study of Coastal Conflicts in South Asia.
1998-2001 SEPHIS Fellowship (South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam). Topic: Green and Saffron: Environment & Communalism in India, c. 1950-1997.
2000 Research Fellow, Asia Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, London.
2000 Appan Menon Memorial Award for Journalism 2000.
1999 Award for Excellence in Asian Print Media Writing by Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Singapore and Singapore Press Holdings.
1998 South Asia Visiting Scholar, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford.
1995 Reuter Fellow, Green College, University of Oxford.
1995 PUCL Award for Human Rights Journalism by Peoples Union for Civil Liberties.
1991 The Statesman Award for Rural Writing 1991, First Prize by The Statesman newspaper.
1991 The Vineet Gupta Memorial Award 1991, for outstanding contribution to Media, New Delhi.
1990 The Statesman Award for Rural Writing 1990, First Prize by The Statesman newspaper.
1989 Best Asian Journalist for Environmental Reporting, 1989, by Asian Forum of Environmental Journalists and Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Germany.
1989 Environmental Consciousness Award, by Science Centre, Gwalior.
1988 Sanskriti Award for Journalism 1988, by Sanskriti Pratishthan.
1987 Journalist of the Year 1987, prize by Lions Delhi Kanishka.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Citations of Academic Writings: Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=V1zh6FoAAAAJ&hl=en
Books
Single-Authored
3 2018 Dalit aur Prakriti: Jati aur Paryawaran Aandolan ( Dalit and Nature: Caste and Environment Movements), (In Hindi) manuscript submitted to Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi
2017 Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
2014 (first paperback printing). Green & Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Environmental Politics, Permanent Black, Ranikhet. First published in hardback 2012.
2010 Human Rights in a Globalised World: An Indian Diary, Sage, Delhi & London.
2006 No Borders: Journeys of an Indian Journalist, Daanish, Delhi, 2006.
2002 Landscapes and Lives: Environmental Dispatches on Rural India, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
Co-Authored
2008 (with Charu Gupta). Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia, Routledge, New Delhi and London. Reprint 2018.
Edited
2005 Defining Dignity: An Anthology of Dreams, Hopes and Struggles, World Dignity Forum, Delhi.
2004 Unquiet Worlds: Dalit Voices and Visions, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Delhi.
2003 Improving People’s Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
Short Books
1992 Against the Stream: India’s Economic Crisis and Workers Alternatives, Progress Printers, Delhi.
1992 (with Ann Ninan and Anil Padmanabhan). An Untold Story: Textile Workers in Ahmedabad, (also in Hindi), PRIA, Delhi.
1991 (with Anil Agarwal, et al.). State of India’s Environment, A Citizen’s Report: Floods, Flood Plains and Environmental Myths, Center for Science and Environment (CSE), Delhi.
1991 (with Usha Rai, et al.). Call of the Commons: People vs. Corruption, CSE, Delhi.
1991 (with Uday Prakash). Ek Kasbe Ki Larai (A Town in Search of Communal Harmony), (in Hindi), Udbhavna, Delhi.
1990 (with Charu). Print Media and Communalism, (also in Hindi), Progress Printers, Delhi.
1990 Mazdoor Aur Sampradayikta (Workers and Communalism, a study on Bhagalpur weavers), (in Hindi), Nishant Natya Manch, Delhi.
1989 Steel Bartan Udyog (Steel Utensil Industry, Problems of Health and Safety), (in Hindi), IFTU, Delhi.
1988 An Endless Story: The Struggle for Housing Rights in Delhi, (also in Hindi), Ashok Nagar Welfare Association, Delhi.
1998 Diara Region of Bihar, (also in Hindi), Bhagat Singh Research Committee, Ludhiana.
4 Select Research Papers in Books
2015 Rashtriya Swamsewak Sangh, VHP aur Tehri Bandh, (RSS, VHP and Tehri Dam), (In Hindi), in Hamara Sabse Bada Dushman, ed. Ajay Kumar, Delhi, Udhbhavana, 170-79.
2012 The Untouchable Present. In Village Society, ed. Surinder Jodhka, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan.
2012 The Making of an Authority: Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi. In Anna Hazare Upsurge: A Critical Appraisal, eds. Asghar Ali Engineer, Ram Puniyani, Delhi, Sahitya Path.
2010 Diara Diary. In Bharat Main Paryavaran ke Mudde [in Hindi], ed. Mahesh Rangarajan, 173-184, Delhi, Pearson [Also published in: Environmental Issues in India: A Reader, ed. Mahesh Rangarajan, 275-287, Delhi, Pearson, 2007; Waterlines, ed. Amita Baviskar, 103-10, New Delhi, Penguin, 2003].
2010 Mirrors of Militarization. In Art as Witness, ed. Parthiv Shah and Sana Das, 175-180, Delhi, Tulika Books.
2008 Hare se Kesaria tak ki yatra. In Barbarta ki Chunauti, ed. Rajendra Sharma, 48-67, Delhi, Sahmat.
2004 Fisherfolk and Coastal Conflicts. In Media Crossing Borders, ed. Rita Manchanda, 145-51, Nepal, South Asia Forum for Human Rights.
2002 The Untouchable Present: Everyday Life of the Musahars in North Bihar. In Asserting Voices: Changing Culture, Identity and Livelihood of the Musahars in the Gangetic Plains, eds Hemant Joshi and Sanjay Kumar, 19-41, Delhi, Deshkal.
Select Research Papers/Articles
Published more than 5,000 special reports, articles, research papers and surveys in my specialized field of environment, labor and human rights, in newspapers, magazines and journals of national and international repute.
Research Papers
2017 Brahmanical Activism as Eco-Casteism: Reading the Life Narratives of Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh International, and Liberated Dalits , Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Special Issue on Caste and Life Narratives, 40, 1, pp. 199-243.