Assis, M. P. & S. Shabnam (under review) ‘Are Rights Enough? Paid Care Work, Embodied Inequalities and Domestic Workers’ Fight for Justice in Brazil and India’ in Global Social Policy, Special Issue on “Social Security for Workers” (Forthcoming)

Shabnam S. (2022) ‘Doing Good, Being Political: Middle Class Bhadralok Narratives from Neoliberal India’, in Manish K. Jha & Pushpendra (Eds.) Beyond Consumption: India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times, Routledge. ISBN 9780367565718

Shabnam S. (2018) ‘In Defence of Sustho Sanskriti (Healthy Culture): Understanding Bengali Middle Classness in Neoliberal India’ in History and Sociology of South Asia, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 48--64. DOI: 10.1177/2230807517741794

Shabnam S. (2015) “Claiming ‘Bengali Middle Class-ness’ through ‘Social Sensitivity’: The Case of the Durgapur Steel Plant Township, West Bengal” in Lancy Lobo & Jayesh Shah (Eds.) The Trajectory of India’s Middle Class: Economy, Ethics and Etiquette, Cambridge Scholars Publication, U.K.

Shabnam S. (2012) ‘The Indian Middle Class, the State and Development: An enquiry into the broad claims of shifts in Neo-liberal India’ in Inclusive, Issue 1.

Shabnam S. (with Bino Paul GD & Sony Pellissery et al) (2008). ‘Educational Attainment of Youth and Implications for Indian Labour Market: An Exploration through Data’ in Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Conference issue, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp.813—830.

Shabnam S. (with Pellissery S.), (2008). ‘Microfinance Globalization’ in Reddy V. & Charyulu Y. (Ed.) Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization, New Delhi: New Century Publications. 

Rights, Justice and Alterity: Addressing the Gender Question in India presented in the Research Workshop organized by Just Society, University of Southern Denmark on “Merging law and politics to ensure equal access to welfare rights” from 12 to 14 September, 2022. 

Doing Good, Being Political: Understanding the ‘Old Middle Class’ in Contemporary Bengal presented at the National Seminar on “Experiences, Aspirations and Struggles: New Middle Class in Indian Cities” held at TISS, Mumbai on 26th and 27th July, 2018. 

In Defence of Sustho Sanskriti (Healthy Culture): Understanding Bengali Middle Class-ness in Neoliberal India presented at the international seminar on ‘The Middle Class in World Society” held at ISEC (Institute of Social and Economic Change), Bangalore, on 16th and 17th December, 2016. 

Middle Class Hegemony and Distinction: An Ethnographic Exploration in West Bengal, India presented at the ‘How Class Works’ 2014 Conference held at State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA from 5-7 June, 2014. 

‘Bengali Middle Class’ and its Political-ideological Standpoint in a Neo-liberal Developing Nation: Voices from two cities in West Bengal, India selected for presentation at the Second International Conference on Middle Class titled ‘The Middle Class as the Precondition for Stability of Society: Fifteen Years Later ‘organized by Bulgarian Sociological Society at Sofia, Bulgaria on the 3rd and 4th December, 2013. 

The Making of the Contemporary Bengali ‘Middle class’ and the Ideological Lineages of ‘Bhadralok’ presented at the colloquium on “Middle Class” organized by the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay on 30th April and 1st May, 2012. 

Towards Re-thinking the ‘Middle Class’: an exploration, presented at the national conference on Literary and Cultural Studies, Researchers at Work Conference, 2011 at Hyderabad Central University, on September 23rd, 2011. 

Finishing school in retail, coauthored with ATLMRI research team, presented at conference on “Finishing school: A solution to Employability?” at TISS, Mumbai on July 11, 2008. 

Is the ‘social’ in microfinance washed away with Globalization, co-authored with Dr. Sony Pellissery, presented at national conference on Emerging Trends in Global Economy: Post-Globalization Dimensions at Kakatiya University, Andhra Pradesh on 3rd & 4th Nov, 2007. 

Fashioning Self, Building Hegemony: The Curious Case of the Bengali Middle Class, talk based on PhD research work, presented at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore as part of CSSEIP Special Lecture Series on 18th March 2016. 

Claiming “Bengali Middle Class-ness” through Social Sensitivity: The Case of Durgapur Steel Plant Township, West Bengal presented at the National Conference on Middle class titled ‘Tracking the Growth of India’s Middle Classes’ organized by the Centre for Culture and Development at Vadodara, Gujarat on the 27th, 28th and 29th November 2013. 

Presented guest lectures on invitation at the department of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; at the department of Sociology, St. Xaviers College, Mumbai and at the department of Sociology, Ramkrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, South Dumdum, Kolkata. 

Assistant Professor, Post-graduate Department of Sociology, St Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata (January 2017-January 2024)

Courses taught:

Undergraduate Courses: 

Sociological Theory 

Introducing Sociology

Introducing India

Social Stratification

Research Methods

Sociology of Everyday Life

Sociology of Globalisation

Social Institutions 

Social Thinkers

Sociology of Religion 

Reading Ethnography 

Postgraduate Courses: 

Classical Sociological Thinkers

Journey and Cultures of Capital

Contemporary Sociological Thinkers

Power and its Dimensions

Courses Framed: 

Core courses on Social Stratification, Indian Society, Research Methods I, under UGC curriculum of Choice-based Credit System (2017) 

Core Courses on Classical Sociological Thinkers, Contemporary Sociological Thinkers, Power and its Dimensions (MA in Sociology introduced in July, 2020 at St. Xavier’s College Autonomous Kolkata).  

Courses on Sociological Thinkers, Research Methods, Understanding Intersectionality under NEP Curriculum for a Four-year UG Sociology (Hons.) and PG (Sociology)