In the two decades of academic work, Sheetal has developed research and teaching interests in new institutional economics, the history of economic thought, economic history, development, political economy, and mathematics. Her funded research projects on public policy for development have broadened her horizons and sharpened her analytical skills, which she hopes to hone further through interdisciplinary explorations. She has developed innovative pedagogical tools that help students understand the relevance of economics to their lives. Going forward, she wishes to contribute to strengthening university education by combining economics with history, ethics, and logic.

Ph.D
Domain: Economics
University: University of California, Riverside;

M.A.
Domain: Development Economics
University: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

B.A.
Domain: Economics
University: Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University

UG courses since 2010:

• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Statistics for Economics
• Economics Laboratory
• Political Economy
• Environmental Economics
• Economic History
• Development Economics
• Trade, Globalisation and Development
• Mathematics for Economics

PG courses since 2006:

• New Institutional Economics
• History of Economic Thought
• Game Theory
• Political Economy
• Development Economics

• History of Economic Thought
• Development Policy

• Information and Price Convergence: Government Telegraphs in British India, with Kuehlwein and Andrabi, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol 60, Issue 3, 2023.
• Post Offices and British Indian Grain Price Convergence, with Michael Kuehlwein and Tahir Andrabi, Economic History of Developing Regions, 35(1), pp23-49, 2020.
• Two Sides of the Colonial Coin: British and Indian women’s engagements with colonialism and patriarchy, Economics and its History, Routledge, eds Ajit Sinha and Alex Thomas, 2019.
• Indian Women’s Agency through Indian Women’s Literature, Routledge Handbook of History of Women’s Economic Thought, eds Kirsten Madden and Robert Dimand, 2018
• Re-evaluating Asoka: A Relational Contract Theoretical Explanation for Economic Transformation, with Gerard Rassendren, Journal of Dharma: Dharmaram Journal of Religions and Philosophies 42(2), 2017.

• Title : Impact of Ahaar Anudaan Yojana on Nutrition and Healthcare among Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Madhya Pradesh
  Role : Principal Investigator
  Funded by : Atal Bihari Bajpayee Institute for Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in 2021
• Title : Impact of MGNREGS in Preventing Distress Migration from North Karnataka
  Role : Principal Investigator
  Funded by : Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Development, Gov of Karnataka in 2022

• Cash Transfer Programmes and Women’s Nutrition in Tribal Madhya Pradesh: A Case of Ahar Anudan Yojana
  Winter School, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, December 2024
• Pedagogical Experiments in History of Economic Thought [with Dr. Radhika Lobo]
  ISHET Annual International Conference, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, October 2024
• Beginning and Evolution of the Concept of Opportunity Cost
  History of Economic Thought Conference, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, August 2023
• Impact of MGNREGS on Distress Migration from Kalburgi district, North Karnataka
  57th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometrics Society, Hyderabad, January 2023
• Beginning and Evolution of the Concept of Opportunity Cost and Clarity in the Concept of Opportunity Cost
  46th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference [Virtual], 18th – 21st May 2021
• Opportunity Cost: Beginning, Evolution, and a Much-Needed Clarification
  Young Scholars Initiative Virtual Plenary; History of Economic Thought Working Group, 13th November 2020
• The Economics and Economic Thought of Colonial Indian Nationalism and Beginning and Evolution of the Idea of Opportunity Cost
  43rd Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, 30th May – 2nd June 2018, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
• Two Sides of the Colonial Coin: British and Indian Women’s Engagements with Colonialism and Patriarchy
  Economics and its History, workshop by Azim Premji University, November 2016
• Edicts of Emperor Asoka and the Economic Theory of Contracts and A History of Indian Women’s Economic Thought from 600 BC to Mughal Times
  History of Economics Society, 43rd Annual Meeting, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2016
• Post Office Allocation in India during the Raj: Where and Why? and Communication vs Transportation: The Relative Contributions of Railways and Post Offices to British Indian Grain Price Convergence
  Economic History Society Annual Conference, Oxford, UK; 2012
• Post Office Allocation in India during the Raj: Where and Why?
  All-UC Group for Economic History Conference, Riverside, California; January 2012
• The Post Office and Price Convergence in British India
  All-UC Group for Economic History Conference, Irvine, California; December 2011
• Post Office Allocation in India during the Raj: Where and Why?
  All-UC Group for Economic History Graduate Students’ Workshop, Davis, California; October 2011
• British Motivations behind Post Office Allocation in India in the Late Nineteenth Century [Poster]
  Economic History Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts; September 2011
• British Motivations behind Post Office Placements in India, 1850 - 1911
  Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference, Berkeley, California; February 2011