Description:
Richa Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. She joined the department in January 2011 and
teaches Sociology and Policy Studies. Dr. Richa completed her Ph.D. in
History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) from the
Science, Technology and Society (STS) Program at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA in 2009. Her dissertation entitled, “The
Yellow Revolution in Malwa: Alternative Arenas of Struggle and the
Cultural Politics of Development,” was an ethnographic study of the
socioeconomic and cultural transformation of the Malwa region in western
Madhya Pradesh over the last 40 years. It studied the introduction of
soyabean cultivation in the 1970s, and the establishment of an information
technology (IT) based private marketing network, known as the eChoupal, in
the 2000s. Dr. Richa is currently working on a book manuscript on the
political economy of agriculture in central India. She is a recipient of
the New India Fellowship (2010). She teaches HUL 275 (Environment,
Development and Society) and HUL 754 (Science, Technology and Society) at
IIT Delhi. She can be reached at richa [at] hss.iitd.ac.in.
