The program develops around the existing broad areas of research:

Academic Writing and Literacy, Second Language Acquisition, English for Academic Purposes. Linguistic Anthropology;

Social History of Bengal and British Assam

Northeast India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;

Indian Writing in English, Representation of Women in Indian English along with Bengali literature, Indian Diasporic Literature in English;

Ancient Indian Technologies, Ethnoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Northeast Indian Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, Repatriation and Archaeometallurgy;

Archaeozoology and Environmental Archaeology

Education, Educational Technology, Teacher Professional Development, Learning Sciences

Psychoanalysis

Continental Philosophy

Global Modernist Studies

Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar is looking for bright and dedicated young scholars interested in research to join us as Ph.D. scholars.

To learn more about the PhD program of IITGN please visit 

https://iitgn.ac.in/admissions/phd