Kumar received an MA in Sociology at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, 1972; an MPhil. in Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, 1975; and a PhD in Sociologists at the University of Chicago, 1986.[4] He was a lecturer in Sociology at BHU from 1979 to 1989, an Associate Professor of Sociology at JNU from 1990 to 1998, and has been a Professor of Sociology at JNU since 1998. Also taught as India Chair in Germany (Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg), GSP Scholar at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany),[4] and was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Tufts University from January to May 2013.[5] International Faculty at Innsbruck University (Austria), GSP faculty at FLACSO (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Visiting professor at NEHU (Shillong) and Kashmir University (Srinagar).
Political career
Kumar was a National Executive Committee member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).[6] He contested on AAP ticket the Indian Lok Sabha elections of 2014 from the North East Delhi parliamentary constituency and came 2nd. Later on he was expelled from AAP for "Anti-Party activities" than finally along with Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Ajit Jha formed a new political organization called Swaraj Abhiyan and currently is a National convenor of Swaraj Abhiyan.[7][8]
^Kumar 2013, p. 11: Anand Kumar is a retired Professor of Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Ex-founding member of the Aam Aadmi Party.
^"AAP promises to launch Delhi University East campus", India Today Online, 31 March 2014, archived from the original on 17 April 2015, retrieved 1 April 2014, Anand Kumar, a former academic who is the party's candidate from northeast Delhi, told IANS that the northeast district was a vulnerable area where people "feel betrayed and neglected" due to issues of poor governance.