Faculty
Prof. Pranav Kumar
Professor
Specialization: African Studies, Geopolitics, International Relations, Energy Security, Maritime Security, India’s Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics and Governance, International Political Economy, International Organisations, Research Methodology.
Qualification : .Phil,PhD (International Studies, JNU, New Delhi)
Experience : .
Dr. Praveen Kumar
Professor and Head
Specialization : Comparative Political Philosophy, National Security, Public Policy
Qualification : PhD (Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Experience : 20 Years of Teaching and Research
Dr. Sumit Kumar Pathak
Assistant Professor
Specialization: .Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Global Politics,, Public Administration
Qualification : PhD (Political Science, B.H.U)
Experience : 12 Years
Dr. Abhay Kumar
Associate Professor
Specialization: Global Politics, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Policy, Human Security, Geo-politics, Japanese Studies
Qualification : M.Phil, PhD (International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Experience : Twelve Plus years experience of teaching and research in Central University of South Bihar
Dr. Anju Helen Bara
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Public Policy and Governance, Political Ecology & Natural Resource Management, Tribal/ Dalit Studies , Renewable Energy, Rural Development.
Qualification : PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Experience : (Teaching / Research) Experience: With a Master’s degree in Political Science from Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, I went to Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay to pursue M.Phil in Planning and Development and later completed my Ph.D from Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT, Bombay. During Ph.D I spent a year as a Commonwealth Split-Site Scholar in the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. After completion of M.Phil, I worked as Research Assistant for a month in Mumbai in an ethnographic fieldwork conducted by Pacific Ethnography Company, California, US. Afterwards, I worked as a Consultant for a small project on Water supply and sanitation programme with SaciWaters, Hyderabad and later continued working with Saciwaters as a Research Associate on the reader on Civil Society and Governance (published by Routledge). Thereafter, I worked as Research Assistant at National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad. Since 2011 onwards I am working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Development Studies.
Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Democracy, Political Theory, Multiculturalism
Qualification : M. Phil., Ph.D.
Experience : 6 Years Teaching and Research
Dr. Umesh Chandra Sahoo
Assistant Professor



