Education, Research and Teaching Interests

Education

University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences, Chicago, IL Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, 2002.

University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences, Chicago, IL M.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, 1996.

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA B.A. summa cum laude . In Anthropology with Highest Honors, 1989.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Cities and Globalization
• Territorial Sovereignty and Citizenship
• Development and Forced Migration
• Memory and Material Culture
• Infrastructure and Urbanization
• Modern Social and Political Theory
• Anthropology and Contemporary Art
• Modern South Asia

Academic and Professional Positions, University Service

Academic and Professional Positions

New School for Social Research, New York, Spring 2005-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Graduate Program in International Affairs

New School for Social Research, New York, Spring 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology

Yale University, New Haven, 2002-2004 Post-Doctoral Associate, Yale Center for International and Area Studies & Research Director, Center for Cities and Globalization, YCIAS

Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), Mumbai, 2003-2005 Co-Director and Research Associate

University of Chicago, Chicago,1999-2002 Coordinator, The Globalization Project and The Regional Worlds Program (funded by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations)

Courses Taught

University of Chicago

• Ethnic Violence in Global Perspective (Joint Instructor with Arjun Appadurai), 2002
• Languages of Civilization: Social Experience and Political Movements in Contemporary South Asia, 2002
• Wealth, Power and Virtue (Undergraduate Social Science Core Curriculum), 2001

Yale University

• Globalization and South Asian Cities, 2003

The New School

• Cities: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, Spring 2004 (Anthropology)
• Globalization and Violence, Spring 2005 (Anthropology)
• Anthropology of Global Flows Spring 2005 (Anthropology and International Affairs)
• Anthropology of Global Flows, Fall 2005 (Anthropology and International Affairs)
• Foundation Course, Urban Concentrators, Fall 2005 (International Affairs)
• Beyond Human Rights: New Ethnographies of Ethics, Spring 2006
• The Urban Beyond: Contemporary Landscapes and the Technological Sublime, Spring 2006
• Cities and Globalization, Fall 2006
• Violence and Non-Violence, Fall 2006

University Service

New School for Social Research

• Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2006
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2005
• Ph. D. Admissions Committee, Spring 2006

Graduate Program in International Affairs

• Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2006
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2005
• Organizer, Faculty Speaker Series, Spring 2005, Fall 2005 & Spring 2006
• Faculty Coordinator, Summer Field Research Program for GPIA Master’s students in Mumbai, Summer 2005

India-China Institute

• Consultant, India-China Institute Collaborative Project with PIIM (Parsons Institute for
• Information Mapping), Spring 2006
• Organizer, Authors and Artists’ Dialogue between Sudarshan Shetty and Xu Bing, Spring 2006

Habitat School Project

• Invited Faculty, Habitat School-Mumbai discussions, Spring 2006

Publications

Books

"Heritage, Habitat and Diversity, "contributing editor, volume prepared for UNESCO, Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogues.

"Ruins and Recollections: On the Subjects of Displacement", University of Chicago Doctoral Dissertation in Anthropology, Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International 2002.

Articels in Professional Journals

“Risk and the City: Bombay, Mumbai and other Theoretical Departures,” in India Review, Volume 5 (2), April 2006.

Book Chapters

“Geographies of Inequality: Scale and Mobility in Defining the Commons,” in The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists, eds. Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray, Blackwell (forthcoming)

Review Essays

“Slum as Theory: the South/Asian City and Globalization. Review Essay of Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002), Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Proletariat,” in New Left Review 26, 2004, Okwui Enwezor, “Terminal Modernity: Rem Koolhaas’ Discourse on Entropy” in V. Patteew (ed.), What is OMA: Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2003, Arjun Appadurai, “Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics,” in Environment and Urbanization 13.2, 2002 and Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed, New York: Columbia University Press” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 30.1, March 2006.

Book Reviews

2006 “Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005),” Constructs: Yale Architecture, Spring 2006.

Catalogue Essays

Statics, a solo exhibition by Sudarshan Shetty (August 2004)

Shift, a collaborative exhibition by Sudarshan Shetty, Shantanu Poredi and Manisha Aggrawal (November, 2004)

“Making up the City,” essay in exhibition book of Last Mile, photographs by Satya Pemmaraju (August, 2006)

Work in Progress

“Black Friday: On how to read a bombing” (article in progress)

“The Cinema of Catastrophe” (article in progress for Urban Charisma, volume under preparation, edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Oskar Verkaaik)

“Post-Industrial Transitions: Mumbai in the Age of Global Capital” (article in progress for The Mumbai Reader, eds. Rahul Mehrotra and Pankaj Joshi, for the Venice Architecture Biennale, Mumbai Pavilion)

“Ludic Landscapes: Capital Space and the Comedies of Speculation” (article in progress for Perspecta 39, The Yale Journal of Architecture)

Ruins and Recollections: South Asian Displacements in the 20th Century (book manuscript in preparation, based on dissertation)

Grants and Awards

India China Institute, The New School, Faculty Fellowship (Summer 2006)

Ford Foundation grant as Co-Principal Investigator (with Arjun Appadurai) for a three-year project titled “Cities, Citizenship and Globalization: An Experiment in Global Capacity Building” (2003-06).

Council for the Advanced Study of Peace and International Cooperation (CASPICMacArthur) Dissertation Fellowship (2000-01).

Committee on Southern Asian Studies (University of Chicago) Dissertation Fellowship (1995-98).

American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship for Research in India (1994-95).

University Fellowship, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago (1989-94).

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society (1989).

Harry and Betty Shapiro Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in Anthropology (1989).

Saval-Sachar Undergraduate Research Travel Award (1988).

Wien International Scholar, Brandeis University (1986-89).

Professional Affilations and Languages

Professional Affiliations

Member, American Anthropological Association

Member and former General Secretary, Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization

Research Associate and former Co-Director, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research, Mumbai

Languages

Telugu: Native Language

Hindi: Medium level of reading

Marathi: Medium level of reading

French: Medium level of reading