Academic Area of Interest

  • Sociology of Development , Sustainability and Sustainable Development, Natural Resource management and Sustainable agriculture, Indigenous knowledge and sustainable livelihood of indigenous communities
  • Sociological issues pertaining to Impact of  Culture, Media, Gender, Technology on Displaced communities, emerging societies  and economies.
  • Sociology of India, especially North-East with special reference to Ethnicity, Identity, Peace and Conflict studies

Teaching

Assistant Professor – Oct 2004 – Dec 2008
Sociology
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati
Guwahati, Assam, India

Undergraduate Courses Designed & Taught

HS 310 (Concepts and Ideologies of Social Life) Spring 05, 06, 07, 08

Eminent Sociologists and their different views of social life: St Simon: Positivism; Herbert Spencer: Functionalism, Organic analogy; Talcott Parsons: System analysis; Max Weber:  Social action and Rationality; Emile Durkheim: Forms of Solidarity and Division of Labour;  Political  Sociology: Power and Authority, Consensus and Conflict, State and Stateless societies: Nuer and Zulu Political systems of Africa, Elites and Masses; Economic Sociology: Division of Labour, Occupational specialization, Property

HS 216 (Sociology of India: Conformities and Contradictions) Spring 05, 06, 07, 08

Social realities and unique institutions of India: Caste/Jati: nature and forms of caste; Tribe   and Caste; Family: nature, economy and law; Village: nature and change in community; Agrarian class: structure, inequality, tensions; Politics and society in contemporary India: Nationalism, Secularism, Communalism, Regionalism, Insurgency; Continuity and Change: Tradition and Modernity

HS 217 (Tradition, Modernity and Social Change) Fall 05, 06, 07, 08

Social change: patterns of change, inevitability of change, factors, conditions and direction of change, perspectives on social change; Rise of popular culture; Modernity and relevant concepts: disenchantment, alienation, urbanization, industrialization, Globalization, development, revolution, social movements; India’s response to modernity; Relations between planning and development: desired role of political leadership in economic reforms, role of culture in social development; Postmodernism: technology and social change

Other Academic Contributions

International Assignments

  • Sujata Dutta Hazarika was awarded research fellowship by  ICSSR (Indian council of social science Research) and FMSH ( Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.) France in the frame of the Indo-French Programme of Cooperation in Social Sciences. 2016.
    She was  invited to be the scientist residence at the INRA( Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) Centre d’Economie et de Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux. laboratory. Dijon Cedex France.During her residency she worked for her research “A comparative study of organic farming in Assam,India with the French model of Organic farming emphasizing enhanced capacities of informal, indigenous local knowledge through formal strategies of ICT and sustainable business management”.
  •  Recipient of Scientist Visitorship to INRA( Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) Centre d’Economie et de Sociologie appliquées à l’Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux. laboratory. Dijon Cedex France for research on  “A comparative study of organic farming in Assam,India with the French model of Organic farming emphasizing enhanced capacities of informal, indigenous local knowledge through formal strategies of ICT and sustainable business management
  • Best Poster Award by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA
    Presented at  the IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference Vienna Austria  24-26 October 2012 http://conference2012.iiasa.ac.at/poster_session.html
  • Nominated for the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program   (IVLP) in 2012
  • Fulbright Senior Research  Post Doctoral  Fellowship awarded by the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) to conduct research on ‘EcoVillage initiatives in United States: Understanding Social Change in the new consciousness of Sustainability’ at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI), University of California at Berkeley, 2010-2011
  • Visiting Research Scholar position awarded by the Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) at the  University of California, Berkeley to conduct research on ‘Politics of Development and Questions of Progress and Post Development Alternatives From a Feminist Perspective’ 2010