Teaching
Courses
Education
- B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Fellow Programme in Management (Cultural Studies), MICA, Ahmedabad
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Communications), MICA, Ahmedabad
Profile
Ravikant Kisana is the Asst Dean (Academic Affairs) & Associate Professor at Woxsen University, Hyderabad. His expertise lies in Cultural Studies and ethnographic research grounded in Critical Caste Studies. He is also closely associated with grassroots organisations which work with students from oppressed caste and tribal backgrounds.
In addition to academic research and publications, his work is also available in public media and well known online platforms. He has taught previously at FLAME University, Pune and IIM Kozhikode.
Research Interests
His current research interests include unpacking caste privilege in higher education, popular cultural discourse and the construction of historical narratives.
Publications
- ‘“No one understands what we go through”: Narratives of ‘risk’ of women from the families of sanitation workers in Pune, India, during COVID-19’, Gender and Development 29(1) (2021)
- ‘“Even if I die, I won’t get a leave”: Daily Indignities & Vulnerabilities of Women Domestic Workers in Pune, India’, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 27(2), (2021)
- Book Review: The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections, eds. S. Yengde & A. Teltumbde, Critical Philosophy of Race (2023)
- ‘Voices from the Beyond: Investigating Meo Muslim women’s empowerment through education in Nuh, India’s “most backward” district’, Gender and Education (2023)
- “Yes caste is important, (but)”: Examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilizes caste in the context of Women’s Prisons in India” , Gender and Development (2023)