Welcome to MIDS - A National Institute for Social Science Research
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

List of Faculty Members

 

Prof. R. Radhakrishna
Chairman
 

Areas of Research: Poverty analysis; income distribution; employment; agriculture; food distribution systems and standard of living.

 

Prof. R Maria Saleth
Director

 

Areas of Research: Water management, institutional economics, agricultural policy and impact assessment of individual and multiple development programs in agricultural and water contexts.

 

S Subramanian
Professor
 

Areas of Research: Social choice theory; poverty and inequality; development economics.
 

 

S Janakarajan
Professor
 

Areas of Research: Rural development; water and environment; agrarian structure; markets and institution.
 

 

D Jayaraj
Professor
 

Areas of Research: Agricultural marketing; rural labour market; poverty studies and gender studies.
 

 

A R Venkatachalapathy
Professor
 

Areas of Research: Social history; cultural history and intellectual history.
 

 

Ananta Kumar Giri
Associate Professor
 

Areas of Research: Social movements and social transformation; social theory, criticism and creativity.
 

 

S Anandhi
Associate Professor
 

Areas of Research: Gender; caste and identity politics.
 

 

Ajit Menon
Associate Professor
 

Areas of Research: The political economy of natural resource use and environmental policy; decentralization and state-civil society dynamics; environmental history and agrarian transformation.

 

L Venkatachalam
Associate Professor
 

Areas of Research: Environmental economics; ecological economics, behavioural economics and institutional economics.

 

K Sivasubramaniyan
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research: Agriculture; water management; irrigation; irrigation institutions; rural development; village studies; coastal environment management; pollution problems.

 

Kripa Ananth Pur
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research: Civil society and governance; local institutions; local governance; farmers’ movements; and women’s political participation in local governance.

 

Moana Bhagabati
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research: International political economy; regional trade co-operation; World Trade Organization related issues.

 

C Lakshmanan
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research: Political theory and culture; political economy; Dravidian politics; subordinated social groups / movements; governance and film studies.

 

M Vijayabaskar
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research:  Industrial organisation; labour markets and their articulation with technological change and product market dynamics.

 

G S Ganesh Prasad
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research: Decentralisation; rural development and natural resource management with special emphasis on water management.

 

Karen Coelho
Assistant Professor
 

Areas of Research: Urban anthropology, state reforms and urban water management.