Dr. Sital Mohanty

Assistant Professor

Dr. Mohanty taught (2016-18) at the Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies & Research Centre (WSRC), Banasthali University, Jaipur (Rajasthan). She has previously worked in the capacities of Consultant and Project Assistant at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi; Programmer at the Ministry of Minority Affairs  (MoMA), Government of India, New Delhi; Project Fellow to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi. During her stint (2009-10) at MoMA, she has worked in the ‘Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme’ pertaining to assessment of various minorities related multi-sectoral development issues; planning, monitoring, and evaluation of existing schemes of minorities. She has also extended consultancies to Rajiv Gandhi Central University of Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha State Open University. 

Dr. Mohanty has been a Life Member of Indian Sociological Society and Member of International Sociological Association. While working at Banasthali University she was the Member of Research Advisory Committee (RAC). Her areas of research include sociology of health, gender studies, knowledge systems, technology and human values, culture and development. She has research publications in high impact & SCOPUS-indexed journals including Review of Development and Change, Journal of Human Values, Social Change, Sociological Bulletin, The Eastern Anthropologist, Social Science Gazetteer among others and several edited volumes including Routledge (Forthcoming) and Mittal. She has more than a dozen academic papers presented in national and international conferences. She has supervised 4 PG Diploma Dissertations and currently supervising PhD students.  

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

  1. 2023. National Institute of Science Educational Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar.
  2. 2018. PhD (Sociology). Jamia Millia Islamia (University), New Delhi.  
  3. 2006. MPhil (Sociology). Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
  4. 2004. MA (Sociology). University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
  5. 2002. BA (Psychology Hons. & Sociology Pass). Ravenshaw University, Cuttack.

COURSE EXPERTISE

Post-Graduate Level (MA)
Graduate Level (BA)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of Gender, Health , Indigenous Knowledge System

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

FIC Research- PhD (Coordinator),
FIC Publication,
FIC Visiting Faculty,
FIC Outreach & Departmental Activities,
FIC International Students relation,
FIC Tutor-Mentor Co-ordination 

Awards and Achievements

2020-23. DAE Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NISER, Bhubaneswar.   
2011-13. Doctoral Fellowship (Centrally Administered), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New  Delhi.

Conferences and Workshops

  1. 15 February 2019. ‘Social Theorizing in Contemporary India: Irawati Karve and Creative Challenges of Past,    Present and Future’, Invited Speaker, International Seminar on Social Theory, Sustainable Development and Planetary Realizations: India, Indonesia and the World, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai.

PRESENTED:

  1. Mohanty, S. 27-29 December 2018. ‘Enchantment and Management of Unpredictability: Religion and Fertility among Women of East India’, Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference, Department of Sociology, St. Philomena’s College, Mysuru (Karnataka). 
  2. Mohanty, S. 09-12 November 2017. ‘The Lived Body: Phenomenology of Infertility and Experiences from Eastern India’, Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow. 
  3. Mohanty, S. and Sahoo, S. 27 February-01 March 2017. ‘Embodied Experiences and the Question of (In)Fertile Citizens: Thinking through the Reproductive Technologies’, National Seminar on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Girls, Centre for Gender Studies and Development, National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR), Hyderabad. 
  4. Mohanty, S. 27-29 December 2015. ‘The ART of Manufacturing: Ethical Considerations in Quest of a Child’, Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. 
  5. Mohanty, S. and Sahoo, S. 13-14 April 2013. ‘Reproductive Agency and Culture Change: Negotiations around Child-bearing in an east-Indian State’, National Seminar on Frontiers of Development Practices in India: Reconfiguring the Development of Underdevelopment, Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. Page 4 of 7 Sital Mohanty/CV/NISER as of 31 October 2022 
  6. Mohanty, S. 17-18 September 2012. ‘Baby Fever’: a cultural account of assisted conception in an east-Indian state’, National Seminar on Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. 
  7. Mohanty, S. 11-13 December 2011. ‘Hope Over Assisted Reproductive Technology: Some Ethical Dilemmas and Societal Issues in India’, Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 
  8. Mohanty, S. 11-13 December 2011. ‘Is It Always the Women’s Fault? Gender and (In)fertility in Indian Context’, Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 
  9. Mohanty, S. 10-11 October 2011. ‘Issue of Infertility in Contemporary India: A Sociological Study of Indigenous Practices and New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) in Orissa’, All India Young Social Scientist Workshop, Tezpur Central University, Assam. 
  10. Mohanty, S. 10-12 October 2009. ‘Issue of Infertility in Contemporary India: studying through indigenous practices and new reproductive technologies’, Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference, Department of Sociology, University of Kashmir.

Professional Membership

Life Member (LMI-4392) Indian Sociological Society.
2017-21. Member, Research Committee – 01 (RC 01: 17-2114), Indian Sociological Society.
2015-16, Member, Adhoc Group (Ethnicity and Minority Studies), Indian Sociological Society.
2009-15, Member, Research Committee – 12 (Health, Population and Society), Indian Sociological Society.
2011-14, Member, Research Committee – 15 (Sociology of Health), International Sociological Association.
2011-12, Member, Research Committee – 10 (Gender Studies), Indian Sociological Society.
2011-14, Member, International Sociological Association.

Community Engagement

Projects & Collaborations

November 2010-July 2011.
Financing and Affordability in Higher Education’ (For UGC, New Delhi)
Role: Consultant
Responsibilities: Literature reviewing; NSS data analysis with the help of SPSS package and developing the reports.

September 2008-January 2009. ‘Study of Small Primary Schools in India: Analysis of School Report Cards of Selected districts in four States’, at National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi.
Role: Project Assistant
Responsibilities: Collection and compilation of statistics relating to small primary schools in India; analytical report on the evaluation.

January-May 2008. ‘Professionalism of Rural Primary School Teachers: Changing Socio-Economic Context’, at National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi.
Role: Junior Project Fellow
Responsibilities: Report-writing and chapters drafting. 

2009-10
‘Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme’
Ministry of Minority Affairs (MoMA), Government of India
Role: Programmer
Responsibilities: Assessment of various minorities related multi-sectoral development issues; planning, monitoring, and evaluation of existing schemes of minorities.

Patents and Innovations

Peer Review Contributions

Sahoo, S., Mohanty, S. and Swain, P. K. 2023. ‘Ascetic, Alekha and Ambivalence: The Mahima Movement in Eastern India’, Review of Development and Change, 28(2): 268-284, ISSN: 2632-055X, SAGE. UGC-CARE & SCOPUS

Mohanty, S., Sahoo, S. and Swain, P. K. 2021. ‘Living with Barren Truths: A Tale of Triumphalism and Tribulations of a Technology’, Journal of Human Values, 27(3): 234-246, ISSN: 0971-6858 (Print)/0973-0737 (Online), SAGE Publication. SCOPUS (IF: 1.100)

Sahoo, S. and Mohanty S. 2019. ‘Knowledge in Context: Production and Practices of Indigenous Mode of Knowledge’, The Eastern Anthropologist, 72(3-4): 319-336, ISSN: 0012-8686, Serials Publication. SCOPUS (IF: 0.175)

Sahoo, S. and Mohanty, S. 2017. ‘Contested Reproduction and Cultural Change: The Case of Odisha (Orissa)’, Social Change, 47(4): 565-581, ISSN: 0049-0857, SAGE Publication. SCOPUS (IF: H-Index 01)

Mohanty, S. and Sahoo, S. 2016. ‘The ART of Manufacturing: Ethical Considerations in Quest of a Child’, Sociological Bulletin, 65(3): 380-401, ISSN: 0038-0229, SAGE Publication. SCOPUS (IF: 0.546)