Sociology of science and technology, History and philosophy of science, Public engagement with science and technology, media and science communication, science in popular culture, science education, regional modernities
Experience
Eleven years in teaching and research
Awards & Honours
Not Available
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Shiju Sam Varughese. Contested Knowledge: Science, Media, and Democracy in Kerala. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017.[BOOK]
Satheese Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varughese (Eds.). Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Transition. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015.(Paperback edition, 2017). [BOOK]
Shiju Sam Varughese. "Where are the Missing Masses? The Quasi-publics and Non-publics of Technoscience", Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2012, pp. 239-254.
Shiju Sam Varughese. "Media and Science in Disaster Contexts: Deliberations on Earthquakes in the Regional Press in Kerala, India", Spontaneous Generations: A Journal of History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, No.1, 2011.
"The State-Technoscience Duo in India: A Brief History of a Politico-Epistemological Contract", in Axel Jansen, Andreas Franzmann and Peter Münte (eds.). Legitimizing Science: National and Global Publics (1800-2010). Frankfurt & New York: Campus Verlag, pp. 137-156, 2015
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
Shiju Sam Varughese (ed.). Special issue on 'Reimagining Kerala's Engagements with Modernity', Malayalam Research Journal vol. 13, no. 1 (January-April), 2020
Shiju Sam Varughese. "Expertise at the 'Deliberative Turn': Multiple Publics and the Social Distribution of Technoscientific Expertise", Dialogue: Science, Society, Scientists, 06 February 2020 (Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru).
Varughese, Shiju Sam. 2019. "From 'Women in Science' to 'Gendering of Knowledge': A Review Essay on Feminist Studies of Science in India", Social Change vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 713-719.