Aufgabengebiet
Forschungsschwerpunkt: Grenzgebiete, Handel, Souveränität, politische Ökonomie, Warentausch, Mobilität, soziale Bewegungen.
Regionaler Schwerpunkt: Himalaya-Gebiet, Indien, Pakistan, Kashmir, Manipur und Myanmar.
Kontakt
Institut für Ethnologie
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 München
Raum:
U 112
Arbeitsgruppe
Remoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World
Leitung: Dr. Martin Saxer
www.highlandasia.net
Projektpräsentation siehe YouTube Video
Academic Career
Since 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow ERC Starting Grant Project: Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.
2016: PhD, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
2006: Masters in Sociology, University of Delhi.
2004: Bachelors (Hons) in English, University of Delhi.
Awards & Grants
2014: Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
2012: Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2011: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship.
2007: Sarai Independent Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
2006: Gold Medal for Highest Marks in the MA examination in Sociology, Delhi University.
2004: Muriel Wasi Award for first position in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, for English (Hons)
Professional Appointments
2007-2008: Research Associate, National Knowledge Commission, Government of India
2007: Visiting Instructor, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College, Delhi University
Talks
Nov 2016: “Ajal and the Politics of Untimely Death in Kashmir”, Annual Meeting of Middle
East Studies Association, Boston
Oct 2016: “Occupying the Frontier”, Annual Meeting on South Asia, Madison-Wisconsin
May 2016: “Frontier Geographies: Transections and Transactions”. Workshop on Genealogies of
Financialization: Reframing Sovereignty in Asia, SSRC Inter Asia Connections V, Seoul.
Nov 2015: “Durations of Credit: Mobility and Morality in the Wholesale Market” Panel on
Moralizing Economies, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver.
Oct 2015: “Precarious Settlements: Trust and Doubt in the Marketplace” Annual Meeting on
South Asia, Madison-Wisconsin
May 2015: “Knots of Trade”. Precarious Exchange: Materiality, Network, Value, South Asia by the Bay, University of California, Berkeley
April 2015: “Ellipses of Exchange”. Modern South Asia Workshop, Yale University, New Haven.
Nov 2014: “Bartering Across Borders: Notes on the Cross Border Trade at the Line of Control”.
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC
May 2014: “The Turning Wheel – Credit Cycles in Srinagar’s Wholesale Hub” Society for
Cultural Anthropology (SCA), Biannual Meeting, Detroit.
Jan 2011: “Cities, Markets and Political Movements”, Indian Institute of Human Settlements
(IIHS), New Delhi, India.