Aardra Surendran
Job Title
Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology
Profile
Aardra Surendran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. She is trained in Development Studies and Sociology, and works at the intersection of the sociology and social history of labour in India.
Her initial work focused on the public sector and forms of labour collectivisation within it. She is currently interested in questions of labour process, technology, and the organisation of production across formal and informal work contexts ranging from the public sector to construction.
Aardra is also interested in questions of gender and work, public policy and inequality and is involved in major and minor projects exploring these dimensions. Her work has been published in journals like World Development, Economic and Political Weekly, Social Change and Labour and Development, and in edited volumes published by Orient Blackswan and Tulika Books. Aardra teaches courses on labour studies, women and gender studies, inequality, and public policy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is currently Co-editor, Book Reviews, for the journal Gender, Place and Culture.