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Ajantha Subramanian
Professor
Department Chair
On Leave AY 2019-2020

Research and Teaching Interests: Political Economy; Colonialism and Postcoloniality; Political Ecology; Space; Social Movements; Citizenship; South Asia; South Asian diaspora.

Curriculum Vitae

Ajantha Subramanian is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests include political economy, political ecology, colonialism and postcoloniality, space, citizenship, South Asia, and the South Asian diaspora. Her first book Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford University Press, 2009), chronicles the struggles for resource rights by Catholic fishers on India’s southwestern coast, with a focus on how they have used spatial imaginaries and practices to constitute themselves as political subjects. Her second book, The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Harvard University Press, 2019), tracks the relationship between meritocracy and democracy in India on order to understand the production of merit as a form of caste property and its implications for democratic transformation.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Tozzer Anthropology Building 210
21 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Chair Business Contact:
anthrochair@fas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-5820 | Peabody Museum 30A
subram@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-9647

PEOPLE CATEGORY
Faculty
Anthropology Labs, Libraries, & Museums
• Archaeology Multi User Laboratory
• Peabody Museum
• Tozzer Library
• Anthropological Literature E-Resources
• Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
• Semitic Museum
• Sensory Ethnography Lab

Related Departments & Centers
• African and African American Studies
• Asia Center
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• David Rockefeller Center for Latin Am. Studies
• Harvard Divinity School
• Global Health/Social Medicine at HMS
• Humanities Center
• Film Study Center
• Critical Media Practice
• Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
• Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
• Standing Committee on Archaeology
• Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Visual and Environmental Studies
• Weatherhead Center

Related Schools, Offices, & Divisions
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)
• FAS Division of Social Science
• Office for Research at Harvard





Department of Anthropology

Tozzer Anthropology Building
21 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138

Peabody Museum
11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138