- Dr. Dalia Bhattacharjee is currently Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University
- Dr. Preetika Sharma is currently doing postdoctoral research on emotional and social aspects of maternal health at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
- Dr. Yogesh Mishra is currently Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University
- Dr. Manleen Kaur completed a project in The Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh on Socio-Economic Status of Elderly in the city of Chandigarh.
- Dr. Shilpa Dahake defended her thesis titled ‘Feral Ecologies of a River: Politics of Infrastructure, Pollution and Water Flows of the Godavari River in Nashik, India’.
- Dr. Nupur Tiwari defended her thesis titled ‘Technology, chronology and landscape archaeology of microlithic occurrences in the central Narmada Basin, Madhya Pradesh’.
- Dr. Akash Srinivas defended his thesis titled ‘Beyond the Biface: Investigating Variability in the Mode 2 technology of the South Asian Palaeolithic through the holistic analysis of select lithic assemblages’.
- Dr. Jayashree Mazumdar defended her thesis titled ‘Investigating diverse factors affecting tool use in monkeys through a study of wild Nicobar long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus) in India and captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in the USA’.
- Dr. Basil Alias defended his thesis titled ‘Panchayat Raj Institutions and Tribal Governance in a Non-Scheduled Region: A Study of Edamalakudy Tribal Village in Kerala’.
- Dr. Ankur Parashar defended his thesis titled ‘Water Scarcity and the Production of Urban Space in Shimla’. He joined in postdoctoral position at South Asian University, Delhi.
- Dr. Vivek Singh defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Acheulean landscape and technological adaptations in the central Narmada Valley, Madhya Pradesh (India)’.
- Dr. Manisha Kushwaha defended her PhD thesis titled ‘Caste and the City: Intersections of Recent Economic Reforms and Dalit Politics in Lucknow’.
- Dr. Shashi Mehra defended his PhD on the topic ‘Late Pleistocene environments across north-central India and implications for hominin adaptations with special reference to the Lower Son Valley, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh’.
- Dr. Shriya Raina defended her thesis titled ‘Dialectics of Intimacy: A Study in Select Graphic Narratives’.
- Dr. Vaibhav Pathak defended his PhD titled ‘Literature and Science: A Study of Select Science Plays’.
- Dr. Rashid Ali defended his PhD titled ‘Ritual as Communication and Religious Multiplicity: A Comparative Study of Imambada’.
- Dr. Anubhav Preet Kaur defended her PhD titled ‘Multidisciplinary perspectives on Early-to-Middle Pleistocene (2.58-0.63 Ma) contexts in the Siwalik Hills and implications for hominin adaptations in northern India’.
- Dr. Amitoj Kaur Chandi defended her PhD titled ‘Punjabi Cosmopolis: Interrogating Literary Historiography in Punjabi’.
- Dr. Nidhin Johnny defended his PhD titled ‘Wounds Speak: Trauma in the Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz’.
- Dr. Ansad C defended his PhD titled ‘Caste, Culture and Communalism: An ethnohistorical study of Araya fisher communities in the coastal Malabar regions of Kerala’.
- Dr. Ravindra Deora defended his PhD titled ‘A multidimensional approach in the study of Palaeolithic occurrences in the Thar Desert: Implication of predictive and analytical modelling in site distribution patterns and lithic material variability’.
- Dr. Shilpi Rajpal, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department from October 2015 to October 2017 is currently Postdoctoral Fellow in a new interdisciplinary project ‘Decolonising Madness’ funded by European Research Council at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Dr. Ranjana Saha, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department from May 2018 to April 2020 is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Manipal Centre for Humanities.
- Dr. Shaheen K.T., Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department 2020-21 is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Kannur University, Kerala.