Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Vasundhara Bhojvaid

Vasundhara Bhojvaid

Assistant Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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

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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

2017 - 2018

India Program Manager (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

  • Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2024. 'Breathing the City: Aerial Imaginations of the Urban in Northern India'. Teaching and Learning Anthropology, 7(1), pp 132-138. https://doi.org/10.5070/T37161808

  • Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2023. ‘Planetary Disconnections of Urban Atmospheres: How New York Turned into New Delhi.’ Weather Matters. Understanding the Human Dimensions of Climate Change. University of Oxford’s Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society (InSiS).

  • 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

  • Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2024. "Noticing: Caste, Class, and Gender in India". In Dear Higher Education. Letters From The Social Justice Mountain. (eds.) Pratt, Menah; Fernandez, Mercedes and Deramo, Michele. University of Minnesota Libraries. https://open.lib.umn.edu/dearhighereducation/chapter/noticing/
  • 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.

  • Rigzin, Padma and Bhojvaid, Vasundhara. 2024. 'Clearing the air on snow leopards and last chance tourism'. Eco-Business. https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/clearing-the-air-on-snow-leopards-and-last-chance-tourism/
  • 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-relationship-seriously-vasundhara-bhojvaid/non-fiction/special-series-prodigal-earth/