ARCHANA PRASAD, Professor, CIS&LS
E-mail: archanaprasad@mail.jnu.ac.in; archie.prasad11@gmail.com

Archana Prasad did her Ph.D. from Centre for Historical Studies JNU in 1994 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Science and Technology Studies Cornell University from 1994-1996. Prior to joining the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies she has been a fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and was teaching at the Centre for Jawaharalal Nehru Studies and the Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia. She specializes in research on the contemporary history of adivasi livelihoods, labour and resistance, women and labour, environmental and labour history. Her current research is focused on the ideologies of resistance and forms of protest amongst adivasi workers through the collection of their oral histories. She is involved with several grassroots and working class movements and has served on several government committees concerning women's and adivasi issues. She has also published several books, scholarly and popular articles on a wide range of subjects related to adivasi and women's issues.

Work and Teaching Experience (19 years)

Professor, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, JNU, Nov 2013-Present

Associate Professor, Centre for Jawaharalal Nehru Studies Jamia Millia Islamia, Dec 2005-Nov 2013.

Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2001-2005.

Rockefeller Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, 1994-1996.

Awards and Fellowships

1. Nehru Fellowship, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2001 to 2005

2. Rockefeller Fellowship for Environmental History 1994-96, Cornell University.

3. The Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Fellowship 1991 to 1994.

Publications
Books

1. Archana Prasad, 2011 (Second Revised and Expanded Edition) Against Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity, Three Essays Collective, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-8878-970-2.

2. Archana Prasad (ed), 2008. Environment, Development and Society in Contemporary India: An Introduction, Macmillan, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-20-3063 530-2.

3. Archana Prasad, 2005. Tribals and Globalisation: Exploring the Potential of Non Timber Forest Produce in India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Monograph: 11, New Delhi.

4. Archana Prasad, 2004. Environmentalism and the Left: Contemporary Debates and Future Agendas, Left Word, New Delhi. ISBN: 971-81-8749-644-1.

5. Archana Prasad, 2003 (First Edition) Against Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity, Three Essays Collective, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-8878-903-0.

Select Articles in Journals

1. Archana Prasad, 2010. 'The Political Economy of Maoist Violence in Chhattisgarh' Social Scientist, Volume 38, Number 3, March-April. ISSN: 0970-0293.

2. Archana Prasad, 2010. Capitalism, Forestry and Tribal Labour in Central India' Social Action, New Delhi, Volume 60, No 2, April-June. ISSN: 0021-5660.

3. Archana Prasad, 2009. 'Documenting Women's Voices: Caste, Class and Gender in Tank Associations of Bahour, Pondicherry'. Nivedini: Journal of Gender Studies, Volume. 15, November-December. ISSN: 1391-0027.

4. Archana Prasad, 2008. 'Patriarchies of the Community: Women and Oral Traditions in Verrier Elwin's Baiga' Indian Historical Review, Volume 35, Number 2, July. ISSN: 0376-9836.

5. Archana Prasad, 2006. 'Conservation and Development in the Forest Rights Bill' Social Scientist, Volume 34, Number 7, July-August. ISSN: 0970-0293.

6. Archana Prasad, 2006. 'Unravelling the Forms of Adivasi Organisation and Resistance in Colonial India' Indian Historical Review, Volume 33, Number 1, July. ISSN: 0376-9836.

7. Archana Prasad, 2003. 'Scientific Forestry and Imperialism in Central India' Contemporary India, Volume 2 Number 1, 2003. ISSN: 0419-1633.

Selected Chapters in Edited Books

1. Archana Prasad, Adivasis' and the Trajectories of Political Mobilisation in Contemporary India, in Meena Radhakrishna eds, Adivasi, Tribala and Indigenous Studies Reader Oxford University Press, Delhi, Forthcoming, 2014.

2. Archana Prasad, Tribal Livelihood and Agrarian Crisis' in Nandini Sundar eds., Scheduled Tribes and their India Oxford University Press, Delhi, Forthcoming, 2014.

3. Archana Prasad, Class, Community and Identity: Politics of the Adivasi in Contemporary India in Amiya Bagchi and Amita Chatterji eds, Marxism: Beyond and With Marx, Forthcoming Routledge, 2014.

4. Archana Prasad, Making Resistance: Autobiographies of Communist Led Agrarian Struggles, 1940-55' in Savya Saachi eds., Narratives of Social Movements, Forthcoming, Routledge, 2014.

5. Archana Prasad, 2011. 'Tribal Societies and History Writing in India' in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (ed.), Approaches to Indian History: Essays in Indian Historiography, Primus Publications and Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-8060-717-7.

6. Archana Prasad, 2011. 'Unravelling the Forms of Adivasi Organisation and Resistance in Colonial India' in Biswamoy Pati (eds.), Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival Resistance and Negotiation, Orient Blackswan and Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-2504-094-1.

7. Archana Prasad, 2011. 'Tribals in Colonial India' in K.N. Panikkar (eds.), Perspectives of Modern Indian History, Popular Prakashan, Mumbai. ISBN: 978-81-7991-659-9.

8. Archana Prasad, 2011. 'The Political Ecology of Shifting Cultivation in Central Provinces' in Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds.), India's Environmental History, Volume 2: Colonialism, Modernity and Nation: A Reader, Permanent Black, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-7824-316-0.

9. Archana Prasad, 2010. 'Neoliberalism, Tribal Survival and Agrarian Distress' in Alternate Survey Group (eds.,) Two Decades of Neoliberalism: Alternative Economic Survey, Daanish Books, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-8114-401-5 (PB); 978-81-8114-400-8 (HB).

10. Archana Prasad, 2009, Education for Sustainable Tribal Development' in A. Nikolopolou (et al eds.), Education for Sustainable Development, Sage, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-3210-293-9

Recent Major Research Projects

1. Archana Prasad (Principal Investigator) and R. Gopinath (Co-Principal Investigator), University Grants Commission, Major Research Project, 'Agrarian and Ecological Change and Its Impact on Marginalised People, 1900-2000', 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2011 (Report Submitted October 2011).

2. Archana Prasad (Project Director), Indian Council of Social Science Research funded Project, 'Analysing Strategies for Community Participation in National Rural Health Mission in Four States', March 2010 to 31 December 2011 (Report completed and submitted in February 2011).

National Level Policy Making and Statutory Bodies

a. Member Research Advisory Committee Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.

b. Non-Official Member, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, 2007-2009.

c. Expert Member, Committee for formulation of National Agricultural Policy for Women Farmers, National Commission for Women, New Delhi, 2008-2009.

d. Expert Member on Task Force for Literacy in Tribal Areas constituted by the National Literacy Mission, Ministry of Human Resource Development, 2009-2010.

Membership of Professional and Other Associations

• Indian History Congress.

• Indian Association of Women's Studies.

• Indian Environmental History Association

• Indian School of Women's Studies and Development.

• All India People's Science Network.

• Delhi Science Forum.