Dev Pathak

Dev Nath Pathak is a founding faculty of sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, and previously taught at Hindu College (University of Delhi), Jamia Millia Islamia, and was a visiting scholar at Brown International Advance Research Institute at Brown University, a Charles Wallace fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, a visiting scholar at Indian Institute of Advance Studies, Shimla, and scholar-in-residence at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has authored Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (2019), In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings (2021), and many curatorial and edited books. He is also a founding editor of the popular public space on YouTube, Galp Lok, which curated significant dialogues with the academic community during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to be a vibrant space.