Deepika Rose Alex

Dr. Deepika Rose Alex is a qualitative researcher whose interest areas include social inequality, religious studies, social movements, women’s studies, and South Asian Studies. Dr. Alex has held visiting scholar positions at the South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University. An award-winning researcher, she has conducted extensive fieldwork in rural parts of southern India, mapping marginalization and resistance based on caste, gender, religion, and occupation. Her articles and reviews have appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals including Contemporary South Asia, Women’s Studies, Journalism Practice, Economic and Political Weekly, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor, IE university, Spain, 2022 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2018

• MPhil, Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, 2012

• MA, Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, 2010

• BA, Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India, 2008

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Alex, D.R., & Paul, S. (2022). News as Religion: Practices of Mediation in a Catholic Community in South India. Newspaper Research Journal, 43(2), 236–247

• Alex, D.R. (2020). From Untouchables to Vyasa’s Clan: Fishermen’s Reform Movement in Kerala. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43(2), 199-214

• Alex, D.R. (2019). Woman as Honor, Man as Reformer: Transition of Women’s Work Roles in the Hindu Fishing Caste of Kerala, India. Women’s Studies, 48(8), 862-881

• Alex, D.R. (2018). Religious Identity at the Crossroads—Hindu Fisherfolk of Kerala. Economic and Political Weekly, 53(16), 42-49