Dr. Pradhan completed his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. from the School of International Studies, JNU and awarded with NET (UGC) and Doctoral Fellowship from ICSSR (Government of India). Before joining the University, he served as Junior Project Fellow in the NCERT and Assistant Professor in Political Science in the Department of Arts, Mody Institute of Technology & Science (Rajasthan). He has, till date, total number of 13 publications in various reputed national, international and refereed journals such as World Affairs, The Indian Journal of Social Work, Jadavpur Journal of International Relations and Asian Studies.

Moreover, some of his research papers are under consideration by different renowned journals like, The Journal of Asian Studies [University of California (Routledge Pub.)] and International Studies [JNU (Sage Pub.)]. He has keen interest and great inclination in the areas of Gender and Gender Politics, Local Administration, Political Theory, Theories of International Relations, International Political Economy, Peace & Conflict, Bilateral Relations, Foreign Policy, Indian Diaspora and Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from it, he has presented research papers on international relations in various international seminars/conferences.