Nepa School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Jeevan Sharma
Adjunct Professor
jeevan.sharma(at)nepaschool.edu.np

Jeevan Sharma has a PhD on migration and social transformation from Graduate School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh (2007). He studied Community Organization and Development at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Social Work at St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu.

He works as a researcher at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University in a research programme titled 'Crisis and Social Transformation in Nepal'. His current research projects include: a) conflict and local perceptions of social transformation in contemporary Nepal; b) gender and generation in Maoist organisations in Nepal; and c) conflict, migration and social transformation in Nepal. He is an associate fellow at the Centre for South for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and is associated with Social Science Baha, Kathmandu.

His recent publications include ‘On State Reconstruction in Nepal’, Economic and Political Weekly, 45(4), 2010, and ‘Practices of Male Labour Migration from the Hills of Nepal to India in Development Discourses: Which Pathology?’ Gender, Development and Technology, 12(3), 2008. He has also served as reviewer for research applications (ESRC/AHRC) as well as manuscript reviewer for journals and publishers.