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Dr. Deepthi Krishna
Project Fellow

Deepthi Krishna worked as an Assistant Professor at St. Francis College for Women. Prior to that, she worked as a lecturer with Royal Thimphu College at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism in Thimphu, Bhutan. Her research interests are Film Studies, Media and Popular Culture Studies, and Urban Studies. She successfully finished her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof Sheela Prasad and Prof. Usha Raman on Representing Urban Exclusions: A Study of Films on Hyderabad. She also acted in and co-wrote a Play, a feminist reading of Bodies and devised from a workshop called ANTIBODIES. She also scripted two children plays.

Her major research areas are Gender and Society, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Muslims and Society and Muslim Women.

  1. Deepthi Krishna Thota (2017): "Uncanny and Dystopian City: An Analysis of Siva", Urbanities, Vol. 7, No.4, Pp 122-137
  • Ongoing September, 2021 onwards).
  • Senior Research Associate- ‘Changing youth choices; a comparative study of Indian and south African University Students’, by Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg.
  • Research Associate- ‘Livelihoods, institutions and socio-economic development: A longitudinal study of Faizabad village’, by National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj- Hyderabad.
  • Project Assistant- ‘Youth and Marriage: A Study of Changing Marital Choices among the University Students in India’, by UGC-SAP, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad.

  • Presented a paper Uncanny City of Hyderabad: Terrorism, Poverty and Alienation in Films at IAMCR conference 2020: Building Inclusivity, Respect and Reciprocity, September 2020.
  • Presented a paper Gendered Cinematic City: Risk and Freedom for women in 21st Urban Space at RC21 Conference, In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies and Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures, 18-21 September 2019.
  • Presented a paper Gendered Cinematic City: Domesticity, Career and Tradition vs Modernity in Telugu Movies at IIT Guwahati Graduate Research Meet 2018: Emerging Trends in Humanities and Social Sciences conference, 26-27 October 2018.
  • Presented a paper Representation of 'Other': Muslims of Old City in Cinema at Urban ARC conference 2018 whose theme was City and Technology at Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bangalore, 10-13 January 2018
  • Presented a paper Uncanny City of Hyderabad: A study of movie Siva at Youth in the contemporary society conference at Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, 22-24 March 2018

Awards / Fellowships / Certificates

  • Served as resource person in the national webinar on ‘Gender, Education and Empowerment: Empirical Reflections from Kerala’, organized by Milad-E-Sherief Memorial College, Kayamkulam-Kerala on 25th August 2020.
  • Attended workshop on qualitative research methods organized by Department of Applied Psychology and Department of Local Governance, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbadur-Chennai from 27th to 28th February 2020.
  • Attended academic writing workshop organized by Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad from 5th to 9th February 2018.
  • Attended workshop on research methods in education organized by Department of Educational Policy, National University of Planning and Administration, New Delhi from 17th to 28th October 2016.
  • Selected for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) fellowship for the doctoral programme.
  • Qualified UGC-NET in Sociology.