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Jillet Sarah Sam
PhD (University of Maryland, College Park)
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Sociology of money and finance, Digital sociology, Economic sociology
Room No. 604
Faculty Building
IIT Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
Education
PhD, Sociology, 2008-2014. University of Maryland, College Park (USA)PhD thesis title: Place and Caste Identification: Distanciation and Spatial Imaginaries on a caste-based social network. PhD thesis supervisor: George Ritzer
M.A., Sociology, 2007. University of Hyderabad.
B.A., Economics 2002. Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
Selected Publications
Sam, Jillet, Rajorshi Ray and Anwesha Chakraborty. 2022. “Digital payments on the agenda: How Indian actor groups framed cash and digital payments during the COVID-19 pandemic” Asian Studies Review. (Forthcoming)
Gomes, Brian and Jillet Sam. 2022. “Care systems for community-dwelling elderly Anglo-Indians: Evidence from two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Calcutta.” International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies. 21(2): 4-26 Link
Sam, Jillet, Janaki Srinivasan and Anwesha Chakraborty. 2021. “Cashlessness in India: Vision, Policy and Practices.” Telecommunications Policy. 45(8):1-6 Link
Sam, Jillet and Anwesha Chakraborty. 2019. “Sense-making of digital money among female peripheral agents: a short ethnographic study of informal workers in North India.” Sociologia del Lavoro. 154 : 60-78 Link
Sam, Jillet. 2017. “Caste Diasporas beyond National Boundaries: Digital Caste Networks.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 16 (1-3): 145-159 Link
Sam, Jillet. 2012. “Globalization and Layered Spaces: The Case of Hitec City in India.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 11(4): 480-512 Link
Awards & Fellowships
2022: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna
2020-2022: “Evolution of Consumer Behaviour: The Impact of Digitalization and Cryptocurrency upon Consumption Practices, a Comparative study between Italy and India.&rdquo
BANDO STRUTTURE Mobility Grant. (with Dr Piergiorgio Degli Esposti (PI), University of Bologna, Italy)Grant Amount- 20,000 Euros
Project Site2018-2019: Women and Monetary Digitzation in North India
Project SiteFORMAS STINT Mobility Grant. (with Dr Anna Aberg (PI) and Dr Anwesha Chakraborty, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)Grant Amount- 148,000 Swedish Krona
Project Site2012: Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland College Park
Project Site2008: Presidential Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Virginia (declined)