Dr. Mohon Kumar Naik

About

Dr. Mohon Kumar Naik is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sharda School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. He has extensive experience for over seven years in the academics and non-academic sectors. He has Scopus index research paper and book chapter and also presented many research papers both international and national forms and received scholarships for it. He has worked as a Project manager at Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Keonjhar, Odisha, India, and also worked as a Subject Matter Specialist (Community Mobiliser and Institution Building), Mukhya Mantri Janjati Jeevika Mission, ST&SC Development, Minorities and Other Backward Classes Department Odisha, India.

Experience

• 07 Years

Qualification

• MPhil, PhD (From IIT Bombay)

Award & Recognition

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Research Fellowship), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India December
• Selected travel grant to present the paper at the Fifth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B.R Ambedkar, Hosted by the New School in New York City, The New School India China Institute
• Institute International Grants, IIT Bombay India
• Member of Covid-19 Management Team, Hostel-1, Indian Institute Technology Bombay, India.

Research

International Journals: 01 (Scopus), 01 (Book Chapter, Scopus), 01 Seminar Proceeding.

International Conferences: 05, National Conference: 04.

Scopus Indexed Journals:

• Mohon Kumar Naik, and D.Madhanagopal. (2022). Land acquisition and a question of “justice”: Voice of the unheardmarginal groups in the interior Odisha, India (Eds.). In D. Madhanagopal, C. T. Beer, B. R. Nikku, and A. J. Pelser., Environment, Climate, and Social Justice - Perspectives and Practicesfrom the Global South.pp.323-348. Singapore:Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1987- 9_16
• Mohon Kumar Naik. (2021). Interface of gender and caste in the resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced womenin the Rayagada district ofOdisha. The Oriental Anthropologist, Sage, 21 (2), pp.311-328. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0972558X211032369.
• (Seminar Proceeding) ‘Land acquisition, alienation, rehabilitation and conflicts among the tribals in contemporary Odisha: A socio-economic and ecological probe (A Joint paper with Prof. Sarmistha Pattanaik) presented at the Land marketand rural poor, organized by National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) Hyderabad, Telangana, India. 18-19th January, 2018.

Certifications

Total Certificates =02, FDP = 04

• ‘Land Governance and Development 2024 which was jointly organized by Azim PremJi University, Bangalore and Landstack Bhubaneswar. The workshop program was conducted from 17th June to 22nd June 2024 at Azim Premji University Campus, Bangalore.
• Education 5.0: Constructive Alignment in Teaching Learning Practices, Organized by the Teaching Learning Centre, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP. 19th -26th December, 2024.
• Thinking Inequality and Injustice with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar conducted by V Geeta in association with Dr. Meena Gopal (TISS) organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, from 28th March to 1st April, 2023.
• DWIH Workshop “Grand Writing & Management” Organized by the Indian officer of Max-Gesellschaft and University of Cologne. 11-13th November, 2019.
• Ambedkar Summer School, Public Policy Discourse on Social and Religious Minorites, organized by Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia, 27-31st May 2019.

Area of Interest

• Environment and Sustainable Development.
• Indigenous culture and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
• Natural resource management.
• Development Induced Displacement.
• Political Ecology, Livelihood and Gender.
• Institute formation and management.