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Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site Title Mr First Name Kiran Last Name Bhairannavar Photograph Designation Assistant Professor Address Department of Geography University of Delhi Delhi-07 Phone No Office 011-27666491 Residence Mobile +91-8800411949 Email [email protected] Web-Page Educational Qualifications Degree Institution Year PhD National University of Singapore, Singapore (Award awaited) MPhil Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2006 MA Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2003 BA Karnatak University, Dharwad (Lingaraj College, Belgaum) 2001 Career Profile 2005-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Delhi, Delhi-India Administrative Assignments MA In-charge, 2016-17 Student Advisor, 2016-17 Nodal officer- UGC-Gender Champions, 2016-17 Faculty advisor- Geo Research Forum, 2016-17 MA In-charge, 2010-11 Student Advisor 2010-11 Staff Secretary, 2007-08, 2008-09. Field Trip co-convener, 2007-08 Department seminar in-charge (joint) 2005-06 Areas of Interest / Specialization Sexualities and space Urban social and Cultural Geography Energy Geographies Queer theory and Methodologies Subjects Taught www.du.ac.in Page 1 MA Courses 204 Spatial Economic Systems (from 2006 to 2011) 308 Cultural Geography (from 2006 to 2011 & 2015 to present) 412 Geography of Energy (2016) 401 Project Report 113 Geography of World Economic System (2005) 206 Geography of Energy (2005 &2006) MPhil Courses: Research Methodology Course 2. Research Guidance MA Dissertations supervised: Impact of Kosi river floods 2008, on socio-economic livelihoods of people in Naulakhi and Chandpur Bhanga of Purnia District, Bihar. (Kaushalendra Kumar Karvendu, 2016) Tribal Education in India: A case study of Rajnagar Block, Saraikela Kharswan district, Jharkhand. (Ashutosh Singh, 2016) ‘Recollections, Narrations and Stories: Constructing Rural Tamil Migration to Urban Delhi , Department of Geography, University of Delhi. (Ruth Mercy, 2008) ‘Reading Slums as Cultural landscapes: A study of Yamuna Pushta slums in Delhi’, Department of Geography, University of Delhi, 2007. (Prabhati Amravanshi, 2007) ‘Shopping Malls as Cultural Landscapes: A study of Ansal Plaza Mall in Delhi’, Department of Geography, University of Delhi, 2006. (Sudhir Yadav, 2006) ‘Reading Gender in Malls of Delhi: A case study of Ansal plaza’, Department of Geography, University of Delhi, 2006. (Rashmi Rani Anand, 2006) Publications Profile Academic De Dios, A and Bhairannavar, K (2012) ‘In conversation with Prof Mike Featherstone’, Asian Journal of Social Science, 40 (5-6), pp. 545-63. Popular ‘She even opens pages of history no historian could have ever thought of documenting’, The Hindu, 2nd May, 2010 ‘Musical Nights’ published in Outlook Delhi City Limits, June, 2008 Conference Organization/ Presentations (in the last three years) www.du.ac.in Page 2 ‘Home and the politics of self: a study of queer men in Delhi, India’, presented at the ‘2015 Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers’, Chicago, United States of America, 21-25 April, 2015. ‘Queer men, the Internet and urban space: Implications of the Internet on production of queer urban space in Delhi’ presented at the ‘Urban Aspirations Asia: A graduate urban studies workshop’, Faculty of Arts and social Sciences, NUS, Singapore, 14-15 August, 2014. ‘Queer Sexualities, Ageing and urban space: A case study of Older men in Delhi’, presented at the ‘U21 Graduate Research Conference 2014: Celebrating Ageing Research’, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 30 June - 4 July 2014 ‘Theorising urban space and Indian queer sexualities: confusions, complexities and possibilities’ presented at ‘Social Science Approaches to Urban Studies- a Research Workshop’, Goa, India, 19-22 December, 2013. ‘Urban Space, the Internet and queer men: The changing nature of the queer space in Delhi’ presented at the ‘Annual International Conference 2013 of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’, London, United Kingdom, 28-30 August, 2013. Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration) Awards and Distinctions First Prize, ‘Sexuality and Space Graduate Student Paper Award 2015’ at 2015 Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago Travel Grant, from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, to attend 2015 Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago Registration and Travel grant from International Relations office, NUS to attend the ‘U21 Graduate Research Conference 2014: Celebrating Ageing Research’, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 30 June to 4 July 2014 Registration and Travel Grant (GSCC)from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS to attend the ‘Annual International Conference 2013 of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’, London, United Kingdom, 28-30th August, 2013. U21 Scholarship from Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Tuition and Travel Grant from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, Singapore to attend the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society (July 14- Aug 8, 2013), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Field work grant (Dec 2012-June 2013) from Graduate Research Support Scheme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, Singapore. Conference Grant (travel, registration and accommodation) by “The 5th Next-Generation Global Workshop ‘Social Innovation and Sustainability for the Future: Recreating the Intimate and Public Spheres’”, Kyoto University, Japan, 6-9th November, 2012. NUS Research Scholarship Award (Aug 2011-July 2015) for pursuing Ph.D programme at the Department of Geography, NUS, Singapore. Space, Sexualities and Queer Working Group Travel Grant (partial): to attend ‘Sexualities of/in the Global South workshop’ August 2009, Manchester, UK Travel Grant (partial) by University of Delhi to attend the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2009, Manchester, UK. Travel and Registration Grant by University of Delhi to attend the ‘5th International Conference of Critical Geography’ 2007, www.du.ac.in Page 3 Mumbai, India Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi (Dec 2002) from August 2003 to March 2005. Junior Research Fellowship, Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi (Dec 2002) - Foregone. Association With Professional Bodies Member, Association for Asian Studies (since 2015) Member, American Association of Geographers (since 2014) Life Member, National Association of Geographers, India. Life Member, Association of Geographical Studies, Delhi. Other Activities www.du.ac.in Page 4 .