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Sudhir Kakar
Education
Academic Appointments
Honors & Awards
Endowed Lectures
 
 
 

Education

Education

Place
Year
B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) Gujarat University (India)
1955-58
Dipl.Kfm. University of Mannheim, Germany
1960-64
Ph.D. Vienna, Austria

1965-67

Post-doctoral psychoanalytic training as a candidate of the German Psychoanalytical Society
The Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt
1971-75


Academic Appointments

Appointment

Place
Year
Honorary Professor GITAM, Vishakhapatnam
since 2014
Kosambi Visiting Research Professor
Goa University
2013
Adjunct Professor
INSEAD, Fontainbleau(France)
1994-2014

 

Senior Fellow
Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
2001-02
Visiting Professor
Department of Psychology, the College & School of Divinity, University of Chicago, every Spring quarter.
1989-93
Senior Fellow
Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
1980-90
Professor & Chairman
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
1976-77
Visiting Professor of Behavioral Sciences
University of Economics, Vienna(Austria)
1974-75
Visiting Lecturer
Sigmund Freud Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Frankfurt (Germany)
1972
Assistant Professor and from 1971, Professor of Organizational Behavior
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Teaching Behavioral Sciences in Post Graduate courses and in external programs.
1968-71
Research Fellow in Program for Applied Psychoanalysis
Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration
1967-78
Lecturer in General Education
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences. Assistant to Professor Erik H.Erikson and teaching in his course “The Human Life Cycle”.
1966-67


Honors & Awards

Practice

Year
Merck Tagore Award
2016
Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany
2012
Homi Bhabha Senior Fellow
2012-14
Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in Humanities, University of Cologne
2011-2014
Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association
2007
Elected Fellow of National Academy of Psychology
2007
Member, Academie Universelle des Cultures, France
2003
Abraham Kardiner Award, Columbia University
2002
Rockefeller Residency, Bellagio. April-May
1999
Goethe Medal of Goethe Institut, Germany
1998
Watumull Distinguished Scholar, University of Hawaii,Spring Semester
1998
Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, 1994-95 & Summer
1997
National Fellow in Psychology, Indian Council of Social Science Research
1992-94
MacArthur Research Fellowship
1993-94
Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
1987
Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow
1986-88
Member, School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
1983-84
Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
1983
German Academic Exchange Fellowship
1983
Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Winter Semester
1981
Homi Bhabha Fellow
1979-80
Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research
1975-76
Karolyi Foundation Award for Young Writers
1963


Endowed Lectures

Lectures

Place
Year
Durganand Sinha Memorial Lecture University of Allahabad
2006
Convocation Address Bangalore University
2003
The Kardiner Lecture Columbia University

Apr, 2002

The Freud Lecture
Sigmund-Freud Stiftung, Frankfurt
Nov, 2001
The Haskell Lectures University of Chicago May 1990
The George de Vos Lectures University of California, Berkeley Apr, 1987
The Erik H.Erikson Lectures Harvard University Oct. 1984
The R V Parulekar Memorial Lecture Indian Institute of Education, Poona 1978