People
Academic - Director
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Director of South Asian Studies; University Lecturer in the Political Economy and Human Development of IndiaI began as an economist and then my job titles just got longer and longer.
Academic - Staff
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Research FellowI joined SIAS in October 2011, where I am a researcher on the ESRC/DfID funded project: ‘The Materiality of Rice’, led by Professor Barbara Harriss-White. I am also a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, and convene and lecture the geography MSc elective, Global Environmental Change and Food Security.
Both food and a healthy environment are essential for human existence. Food production at the scale required to feed the present population inevitably damages the environment. This damage is at such a scale to seriously threaten human existence.
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Lecturer in Modern Indian StudiesI completed my doctoral studies in anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2008. I also undertook a postdoctoral research (2008-2011) in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. My work, through long-term empirical fieldwork and critical engagement with social theory, develops theoretical and empirical insights into the political economy of poverty, violence and development in India in the context of the growing Maoist insurgency and counterinsurgency.
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Lecturer in Modern Indian Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for the MSc in Contemporary IndiaI trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh, University College London and the London School of Economics, where I completed my PhD. Before joining the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme in Oxford in 2008, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the LSE and taught at Goldsmiths and the LSE.
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Lecturer in Modern Indian StudiesKate undertook her doctoral research at the Australian National University’s School of International, Political & Strategic Studies. Her dissertation focuses upon Indian understandings of ‘greatness’ in the international sphere and the reflection of these understandings in India’s international behaviour. By adopting a deep-constructivist, anthropologically-informed approach in the deconstruction of India’s aspirational role in global affairs, it both critiques and builds upon existing conceptions of great powers in International Relations Theory.
Academic - Affiliate
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Senior Research Fellow, Area Studies; Co-ordinator South Asian Research ClusterI joined SIAS in 2007 but I joined Oxford in 1987 after 7 years teaching social science to medical doctors at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. My interests are Political economy; agriculture, energy and food; aspects of deprivation; India’s informal capitalism; rural and local development; low carbon transition. I used to teach Indian political economy on the MSc in Contemporary India. (Before that – M Phil in Development Studies: core course, options in gender and development, Indian political economy, health and development, rural development)