Sociology and Sanitation: An Introduction

Prof. Ashish Saxena presently is Professor & Head, Department of Sociology at University of Allahabad since 2014. Earlier he was Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Jammu and was also Director (I), Ambedkar Studies Centre; He has over twenty-three years of teaching experience and has significant publications on the issues related to Social Development, Social exclusion, Subaltern communities, Agrarian reforms, Sociology of Sanitation, Democratic decentralization, Identity politics and Globalization in India with specific reference to U.P. & J&K State. He is recipient of prestigious UGC-DAAD fellowship 2014 under the UGC-DAAD exchange of scientist programme in Humanities and Social Sciences at SAI, University of Heidelberg, GERMANY. On the eve of honorable PM Modi’s birth anniversary; he has been felicitated with the prestigious ‘Sulabh Swacchta Samman 2016’; ‘Gold medal’ for academic contribution in the field of ‘Sociology of Sanitation ‘and Action Sociology by Sulabh International. New Delhi; he has also been felicitated with the prestigious D.P.Mukherji Memorial Award (ISSA) – 2017 and prestigious Dewang Mehta National Education Award by Business School Affaire, Mumbai on its 25th Silver Jubilee Year in 2017 on 14th September, 2017. He was also invited as UGC Visiting Fellow for one-week under UGC-SAP at Department of Sociology, BBAU Central University, Lucknow April, 2013. Resource person for INFLIBNET e-PG Pathshala (2018), Swayam Prabha, DTH Channel, MHRD, GoI for NPTEL course on ‘Indian Government initiatives for Women and Girls’, ‘Development of Sociology in India’ and ‘Introductory Rural Sociology’ organized by I.I.T Kanpur on August -September 2018; 2019-20. He is also serving as the Chief Vigilance Officer, University of Allahabad, Dy. Director, Faculty, Recruitment Cell, and also is the Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Allahabad.