Email id: gbhan at iihs dot co dot in
Gautam Bhan is a consultant for Curriculum Development and Policy and Advisory Services at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements – India’s first prospective National Innovation University addressing the challenges of urbanisation through an integrated programme of education, research, consulting and advisory services.
Education:
- MA, Urban Sociology, University of Chicago (2005).
- Visiting Undergraduate Scholar ,Harvard University (2000-01).
- BA, Political Economy of Development, Amherst College (2002).
Gautam is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley.
Gautam was a Research Fellow/Project Coordinator at Bawana Society for Applied Studies/Jagori, New Delhi, India between 2005-07. He served as Consultant Researcher at CREA, New Delhi, around the same time and at BRIDGE, Brighton, England in 2001. In 2003-2004, he worked as an Independent Researcher at the Centre for Diarrheal Disease and Nutrition Research, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. In addition, he served as Series Editor, Sexualities, Yoda Press, New Delhi in 2005.
Gautam has received several awards:
• International Dissertation Research Fellowship ’09 Awarded $30,000 dissertation research fellowship by the Social Science Research Council, Washington D.C.
• Human Rights Fellow 2007-08: Fellow of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley.
• Berkeley Fellow 2007-2011: Awarded prestigious university-wide Berkeley Fellowship for multi-year funding for PhD studies.
• University of Chicago Merit Scholarship 2003-2004: Tuition scholarhship for MA studies.
• Amherst College Foreign Student Scholarship ’98-’02 – total of over $100,000 in grants covering full tuition and expenses.
• Harvard University Merit Scholarship 2000-01 – Full tuition coverage for year-long term as a Visiting Undergraduate Student.
Apart from being totally committed to Indian cities, urban government, housing, and informal settlements, Gautam loves to travel.
Working Papers
- (Un)Settling the City: Analyzing Displacement in Delhi from 1990-2007 (co-authored with Swathi Shivanand); A Working Paper on IIHS Eviction Project 2011-2012; New Delhi 2012
- Is Urban Planning Relevant in Indian Cities? A Case Study of Housing in Delhi 1947 – 2010; A Working Paper on IIHS Eviction Project 2011-2012; New Delhi, 2012
Other Publications
- Bhan, G [2009] Evictions, the urban poor, and the right to the city in millennial Delhi, in Environment & Urbanisation, Vol 29 (1).
- Bhan, G and Menon-Sen, K [2008] Swept off the Map: Surviving Eviction and Resettlement in New Delhi (Yoda Press: New Delhi)*Hindi Edition (2009) Nakshe se Bahar: Dilli main Visthapan ke Baad Zindagi
- Bhan, G., Bhandari, N., Taneja, S., Mazumder, S., and Bahl, R. (2005) The Effect of Maternal Education on Gender Bias in Care-seeking for Common Childhood Illnesses, in Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 60 (5), p. 715-724.
- Bhan, G and Narrain, A [2008 (2005)] Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India (Yoda Press: New Delhi)
- Bhan, G (2005) Sexual Rights in India: A New Paradigm? CREA (New Delhi: CREA).
- Bhan, G (2000). India Gender Profile: Gender and Development Concerns in the Indian Context. Institute of Development Studies (Brighton: IDS). Available at www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
- Residual Publics and Improper Citizens: Reflections on Urban Planning in Millennial Delhi
Law and Social Science Network (LASSNET) Annual Conference, Pune, December 2010 - In the Public’s Interest: Evictions and Urban Citizenship in Millennial Delhi
American Association of Anthropology Annual Conference, New Orleans, November 2010 - The International Associatin of the Study of Traditional Environments, Beirut, December 2010
- City Futures: Urban Affairs 2009, Madrid, Spain, June 2009
- Public Interest and Exclusion: Wither Justice?
Bresslauer Graduate Student Conference, Berkeley, CA, May 2009 - The Juridical City: Law, Public Interest and Urban Government in Millenial DelhiAmerican Association of Geography, Las Vegas, March 2009
- This is not the City I once Knew: Evictions and Urban Citizenship in Millenial Delhi
34th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October, 2008