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Career Highlights
Career Highlights
1. Invited as Outstanding Alumnus: Greenway Modern School, Delhi (India).
2. SEMPRE Conference Award 2025 by The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
3. Division 39 Scholars Award 2025 given by the American Psychological Association (APA).
4. Excellence in Research Award 2024 by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad.
5. Emerging Psychologists’ Programme 2024 winner of the International Congress of Psychology (ICP) 2024.
6. Division 36 Social Justice Task Force Research Grant 2024 given by the American Psychological Association.
7. Emerging Scholar Award 2024 by Religion in Society Research Network, USA, for the Fourteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society.
8. Student Diversity Award 2023 from the American Psychological Association (Division 29).
9. APS Student Research Grant 2023 by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), USA.
10. Winner of the Excellence in Research Award 2022 by the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
11. Winner of the Asian Student Membership Scholarship by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), USA.
12. Winner of the Student Research Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 36).
1. Invited as Outstanding Alumnus: Greenway Modern School, Delhi (India).
2. SEMPRE Conference Award 2025 by The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE)
3. Division 39 Scholars Award 2025 given by the American Psychological Association (APA).
4. Excellence in Research Award 2024 by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad.
5. Emerging Psychologists’ Programme 2024 winner of the International Congress of Psychology (ICP) 2024.
6. Division 36 Social Justice Task Force Research Grant 2024 given by the American Psychological Association.
7. Emerging Scholar Award 2024 by Religion in Society Research Network, USA, for the Fourteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society.
8. Student Diversity Award 2023 from the American Psychological Association (Division 29).
9. APS Student Research Grant 2023 by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), USA.
10. Winner of the Excellence in Research Award 2022 by the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
11. Winner of the Asian Student Membership Scholarship by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), USA.
12. Winner of the Student Research Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 36).
13. Winner of the Stephen Mitchell Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 39).
14. Winner of the Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Award by the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA, London).
Vineet Gairola is a Ph.D. candidate in Psychology at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, researching the ritual journeys of Devī-Devtās (Hindu deities) in the Garhwal Himalaya and the transformative experience of divine embodiment/divinization of bakkyās (oracles/diviners) through ethnography. During his Ph.D. tenure, Vineet has received 21 awards, delivered 25 international conference presentations, and published 49 works, including 32 book reviews, 4 book chapters, and 5 articles in esteemed journals. He is the Book Review Editor of Springer’s Journal of Dharma Studies (2025-Present), the International Relations Committee (IRC) member of the American Psychological Association (Division 39), and the Student Development Committee member of the Psychotherapy Division of APA, Div 29. Vineet was selected for the Emerging Psychologists Programme (EPP) as one of the top 40 Emerging Psychologists by the International Congress of Psychology (ICP, Prague). He is the winner of the Division 39 Scholars Award 2025 by the American Psychological Association (APA, Div 39), the Excellence in Research Award by IIT Hyderabad (2022 and 2024), the Social Justice Task Force Research Grant from Division 36 of the APA, the Student Grant Competition by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Dr. Lillian Comas-Diaz Student Diversity Paper Award 2023 from APA (Division 29), the Stephen Mitchell Award given by the APA (Division 39), the Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Award by the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), the Student Research Award 2021 from APA Division 36. He has taken part in more than 25 International Conferences and has published 32 book reviews and other works in Himalaya, Journal of Dharma Studies, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Contemporary South Asia, International Journal of Hindu Studies, Fieldwork in Religion, Religions of South Asia, Religion, Journal of Asian Studies, International Journal of Asian Studies, among others with book chapters published by Springer and Routledge. Additionally, he is a dancer and a musician for the past 20 years and has a band named Araadhak.
LinkedIn: Vineet Gairola, Doctoral Researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Contact
Contact
Department of Liberal Arts
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad,
Kandi 502285
Telanagana, India.
Email: la21resch01001@iith.ac.in
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