Centre For Comparative Religions And Civilizations

Kulwinder Kaur is a sociologist by training but her teaching and research practice is multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary in orientation. She began her professional journey in Delhi University where she taught and researched for close to five years before joining the Centre for Culture Media and Governance (CCMG), JMI in 2007. Thereafter, in 2008, she moved to the Department of Sociology within Jamia, where she has been teaching since then. She was a Visiting Fellow on Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Harvard University (2014-15), and a Visiting Scholar at SOAS, London (2006). She has edited The Coming of Consumer Society, Manohar Publications: New Delhi (2016). She has been invited to be part of cutting edge policy informing works which are now major policy documents under implementation. She is the co-author of Saksham: Measures for Ensuring the Safety of Women and Programmes for Gender Sensitization on Campuses, University Grants Commission, New Delhi (2013). She was invited to work on two Major Policy Projects on two Minority Concentrated Muslim Districts by Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. of India, to implement the Sachar Committee Report (2008). At Harvard, GSD, she completed a research project titled, “Beyond Dualisms: Ambivalent spaces, planning and conceptualizing public space”. Her other publications in peer reviewed journals of repute and edited books have extensively covered themes of urban public space (2015), consumer culture ( 2016, 2017), urban segregation (1997, 2017) and violence and identity conflict with respect to gender (2013), tribes (2003,2006), and religious minorities, e.g. ( Muslims ( 2008) and Sikhs ( 2016). She is member of several academic and professional committees. She is also on the Editorial Advisory Committee of Sociological Bulletin.

Currently, she is working on the themes of ‘urban informality’ and ‘gentrification’.