Ashish Krishna
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Sports studies
- Gender and sport
- Media studies
- Sport history
- Logical reasoning
Biography
Ashish is a part of the Undergraduate Programme.
He has a PhD from the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS Pilani, Goa campus and a Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Ashish is passionate about integrating sport and physical culture studies into academic curricula. He is enthusiastic about the transformative potential of sport and bats for inclusive sporting spaces and cultures. He is keen on leveraging the potential of sport as a conduit for social change and teaching essential life skills to students.
In his full-time and part-time teaching roles, Ashish has taught in various colleges across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Ashish’s research focus is at the intersection of sport, gender and postcolonialism. He has research publications to his credit in international journals and edited volumes in the field of the sociology of sport and the history of sport.
Publications:
Krishna, A. (2024). Sporting Diaspora: Reconstructing Goan Field Hockey History Through the Exploits of Lusitanians Sporting Club, 1909 – 1964. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 1 – 22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2024.2363792
Krishna, A. (2024) [forthcoming]. Parenthetical Team Names, Perpetual Peripheries and Bodily Resistance…In The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations (pp. 165 – 184). Research in the Sociology of Sport, Emerald Publishing.
Krishna, A. (2017). How Football Shaped the Society in Bengal and Goa in the Twentieth Century. In Explorations in Critical Humanities: A Collection of Essays, Viva Books.
Conference Presentations:
Krishna, A. (2017, November). Role of Football in the Social Integration of Rohingya Refugees in India: An Exploration in Strengths and Hope [Paper Presentation]. Annual International Conference, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Windsor, Canada.
Krishna, A. (2021, May). A Whole Lot of Bull: Analyzing the Coverage of Jallikattu [Paper Presentation]. Sport, Animals, and Ethics. University of New Brunswick, Canada and Miami University, Ohio, USA.
Krishna, A. (2023, October). From Triumph to Decline: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Football in Goa (1975−1991) [Paper Presentation]. CIRCLE Graduate South Asia Virtual Conference, University of Guelph, Canada