Sivakumar Iyyanar

About

Dr Sivakumar Iyyanar is work broadly focuses on gender issues in India. His current research examines the representation of gender, caste, and class in cinema, with a particular emphasis on contemporary Indian films. He worked at Alagappa University, India, for almost nine years in various positions, including Adjunct Faculty, Assistant Professor, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Women’s Studies. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, and received a University Grants Commission (UGC) National Fellowship for his doctoral studies. He also qualified for the UGC's National Eligibility Test (NET) in Women’s Studies.

Employment

• Alagappa University Project Fellow
  2024 - Present
• Alagappa University Adjunct Faculty
  2022 - Present
• Alagappa University POST DOCTORAL FELLOW
  2019 - 2022
• Alagappa University ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
  2015 - 2019

Education

• Pondicherry University PHD
  2010 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (22)

• Entrepreneurship as a route out of poverty: A focus on women and minority ethnic groups
  Community Development 2025 2 citations DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2024.2438009
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• Book Review: Gender, Sexuality and the UN’s SDGs: A Multidisciplinary Approach DaltonDrewSmithAngela, (eds), Gender, Sexuality and the UN’s SDGs: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cham: Palgrave, (2023); 285 pp., ISBN: 978-3-031-31046-1, £106.99, (eBook)
  Sexualities 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1177/13634607251326813
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• Teaching women’s history: breaking barriers and undoing male centrism in k-12 social studies
  International Studies in Sociology of Education 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2025.2550324
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• Ethnicity and Adivasi identity in Bangladesh
  Asian Ethnicity 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2024.2446363
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• Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers
  Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 2025 1 citation DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2024.2445371
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• Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana AvinashNatu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN: 9781032518732
  British Journal of Psychology 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12765
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• Gender in Modern India: History, Culture, Marginality by Singh, Lata, and Shashank Shekhar Sinha
  Women's Studies 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2025.2481928
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• Book review: Bharat Rathod, Dalit Academic Journeys: Stories of Caste, Exclusion and Assertion in Indian Higher Education.
  Contemporary Voice of Dalit 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1177/2455328X241308382
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• Communication Technology and Gender Violence
  Mass Communication and Society 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2025.2467597
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• Gender‐Based Violence in Children's SportBy GretchenKerr, London: Routledge, 2023. 170 pp. £125.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780367473662
  Child Abuse Review 2024 0 citations DOI: 10.1002/car.70011
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