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Dr. Vasundhara
Bhojvaid
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS)
vasundhara.bhojvaid@snu.edu.in
D 205 C, Shiv Nadar University
India
0120-7170100
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Profile Summary 

Dr. Vasundhara Bhojvaid is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR. Her doctoral research was an ethnographic study that followed a group of scientists on a development project across villages in two districts in Uttarakhand, India. The study explored the intersections of science, climate change and ecological relationships to understand how entities such as air pollution, smoke and clouds reconfigure how social worlds are made.

Her current work looks at how air pollution is effecting and effected by policies, transforming life in urban spaces and understandings of the body. This is informed by her broader interests in how air pollution has close intersections with climate change and is charting new ways in which to anthropologically explore the contemporary.

Educational Qualifications 
2018
Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
2010
M.Phil
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
2009
M.A. Sociology (H)
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
2007
B.A. Sociology (H)
Miranda House, Delhi University
Work Experience 
2017 – 2018
India Program Manger (Air Quality),
Clean Air Asia,
India
2015 – 2016
Ad-Hoc Faculty, Sociology Department,
Hindu College, Delhi University,
New Delhi
07/14
12/14
Guest Faculty, Sociology Department,
Hindu College, Delhi University,
New Delhi
2012 – 2014
Consultant,
USAID TRAction Project,
India
2010 – 2012
Research Associate,
The Energy and Resources Institute,
New Delhi
Teaching & Research Interests: 

Ecology and science; human-non human relations; atmospheres; climate change; India.  

Courses Taught(Selected) 
Independent Study: Advanced Theory and Method (SOC797)
Sociological Theory II (SOC223)
Anthropology of Climate Change (SOC305)
Sociology of Science (SOC306)

Scholarly Activity

Journal Articles

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2022. "Book review: Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change." Contributions to Indian Sociology. Volume 55, Issue 3, Pp. 462-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211063837

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2021 “Hazy Clouds: Making Black Carbon Visible in Climate Science.” Journal of Material Culture, 26, no. 2 (June 2021): 162–77. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359183521994864 

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2020. "The Social in/and the Scientific. Book Review of Pankaj Sekhsaria's 'Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory.'" Dialogue. Science, Scientits and Society, November 20, 2020. http://www.dialogue.ias.ac.in/article/48361/the-social-inand-the-scientific

S. K. Pattanayaka, M. Jeulanda, J. J. Lewis, F. Usmania, N. Brookse, V. Bhojvaid, A. Kar, L. Lipinski, L. Morrison, O. Patange, N. Ramanathan, I. H. Rehman, R. Thadani, M. Vora, and V. Ramanathan. 2019. "Experimental evidence on promotion of electric and improved biomass cookstoves." PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). May 22nd 2019, pp 1-6. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/27/13282

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2016. ‘“Cloud.” Theorizing the Contemporary’, Cultural Anthropology website, July 12, 2016. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/cloud

Brooks, N., Bhojvaid, V., Jeuland, M.A., Lewis, J.J., Patange, O. and Pattanayak, S.K. 2016. "How much do alternative cookstoves reduce biomass fuel use? Evidence from North India." Resource and Energy Economics, Volume 43, Feburary 2016, pp. 153-171.

Jeuland, M.A., Bhojvaid, V., Kar, A, Lewis, J.J., Patange, O., Pattanayak, S.K, Ramanathan N., Rehman, I.H., Tan Soo, J.S. and Ramanthan V. 2015. "Prefernces for improved cook stoves: Evidence from rural villages in north India." Energy Economics, Volume 52, Part B, November 2015, pp. 287-298.

Lewis, J. J., Bhojvaid, V, Brooks, N, Das, I., Marc A. Jeuland, Patange, O. &. Pattanayak, S. K. 2015.  "Piloting Improved Cookstoves in India." Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, 20:sup1, 28-42.

Bhojvaid, V., Jeuland, M., Kar, A., Lewis, J.J., Pattanayak, S.K., Ramanathan, N., Ramanathan, V. and Rehman, I.H. 2014. "How do People in Rural India Perceive Improved Stoves and Clean Fuel? Evidence from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(2), pp.1341 – 1358.

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2012. "Encountering the Field." World Anthropologies Network, issue no. 6, July 2012. http://www.ram-wan.net/old/html/journal-6.htm

Books & Book Chapters

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2020. "Cloud." In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. Punctum Books. 

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2013. "Socialising Stoves: how anthropology helped explain technology adoption." In Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World, (ed.) Emma Crewe and Richard Axelby, Cambridge University Press.

Articles & Essays in Magazine and Newspaper

Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2021. "It's In The Air: Taking The Human-Atmospheric Relationship Seriously." Third Lane, September 25, 2021. https://thirdlanemag.com/en/its-in-the-air-taking-the-human-atmospheric-...