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Nikhil Anand

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anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info

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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Next week! CASI is delighted to welcome Nandita Das as its 2026 Saluja Global Fellow. Do sign up below to register for her lecture on March 19.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We are happy to announce the new editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology! Bridget Guarasci and Sarah E. Vaughn, Amelia Moore, Eleana Kim and Ryo Morimoto will serve from 2026 to 2029! Journal submissions are open!
Image with the Cultural Anthropology logo and headshots of the new editors: Bridget Guarasci, Sarah E. Vaughn, Amelia Moore, Eleana Kim and Ryo Morimoto, listed along with their university affiliations.
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor
With 64% of the city’s residents relying on buses and trains so overloaded that up to 10 passengers die a day, anger is rising over a taxpayer-funded road most will never use
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
*POSTDOC ANNOUNCEMENT* @casipenn.bsky.social @upenn.edu We invite recent PhDs in the social sciences, whose work focuses on contemporary India, to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship position for the 2026-2027 academic year. Review of applications begins Feb 2. More at the link below 👇
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CASI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)
Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Academic Year OpeningThe Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications to fill a postdoctoral fellowship positio...
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Center for the Advanced Study of India @casipenn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
CASI is thrilled to announce that Gareth Nellis will be our new Director as of July 1, 2026! He will also serve as Penn SAS Associate Professor of Political Science and hold the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India. Please join us in welcoming him to Penn!
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Center for the Advanced Study of India @casipenn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In this CASI Deep Dive IiT Interview, Managing Editor @rohanvenkat.bsky.social speaks to recent CASI-Khemka Distinguished Lecturer @ndubash.bsky.social (Princeton University) about "The 'Domestication' of Climate Change Policy in India" casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/casi-dee...
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CASI Deep Dive: Navroz K. Dubash on the “Domestication” of Climate Change Policy in India | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)
For decades now, questions about how the Indian government should address climate change have tended to fall into a simplistic binary: “climate vs. development,” as if each policy falls neatly on eith...
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Happy to announce that Gareth Nellis will be the incoming Director of @casipenn.bsky.social starting this July :) www.sas.upenn.edu/news/gareth-...
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Gareth Nellis Named Director of Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India
Nellis, who joins Penn from the University of California, San Diego, specializes in comparative politics, South Asia, and intergroup relations.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 to Leniqueca Welcome for winning this year's SCA Cultural Horizons Prize for her article, "On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad"
On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad

By Leniqueca A. Welcome

In this article, I place in conversation multiple forms of violence against those who occupy the category of poor black woman in Trinidad: the abuse and premature death of these women at the hands of their partners or strangers, the physical and discursive violence against black women by the state, the theft of their children due to inter/intra-community and police violence, and the grief black women are often forced to carry. I show how these different forms of violence converge on and in black women’s bodies and, rather than being distinct in causation and effect, constitute multiple iterations of the ongoing colonialist extraction of black women’s lives for the creation of different forms of masculinist state and economic power. Ultimately, I show how masculine and feminine subjectivities are produced in tandem with racialized positionings through violence and comprehensively document what is gendered violence and how it is embodied.
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds #openaccess 1/6 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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After Coasts: Cartography, Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
As cities and nation-states design massive coastal development projects, I show in this review how these projects require and produce emptied and flattened surfaces necessary for the workings of colon...
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨ newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
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Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@casipenn.bsky.social and the Department of Anthropology @upenn.bsky.social seek to hire a Climate Postdoc for the 2025-26 academic year. Scholars working on environment-society relations, cities and urbanization, and climate change in India, apply! casi.sas.upenn.edu/postdoctoral...
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CASI Postdoctoral Climate Fellowship (2025-26 Academic Year)
The Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania invite applications to fill a postdoctoral fellowship position for the 2025-26 ac...
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Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you would like to write for India in Transition, a publication from the University of Pennsylvania's @casipenn.bsky.social, see our guidelines here – casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/submissi... And get in touch with me!
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Submissions to India in Transition
If you would like your article to be considered for publication in India in Transition (IiT), please follow these formatting and submission guidelines.
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Interested in supporting academic and outreach programs focused on the study of India @upenn.bsky.social? Consider applying to join the super team @casipenn.bsky.social as Assistant Director!
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
For those preparing PhD applications to Geography + Anthropology programs in the US in this application cycle, This guide, prepared by two members of Penn EnviroLab, might be helpful. upenn.app.box.com/s/a2xbf7xg31...
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PhD Application Guidelines.pdf | Powered by Box
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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Ideational geographies workshop
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I created this @dukepress.bsky.social starter pack, since it seemed like time! I'm sure I have missed some people so write me and I will add you in. go.bsky.app/D2cEz4t
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Here’s my guide to applying to graduate school. Ostensibly it’s for anthropology, but I think it’s generally applicable—I’d be happy to learn if it doesn’t work for other disciplines! matthewwolfmeyer.com/2012/08/12/s...
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So You’re Applying to Graduate School (in Anthropology)
Applying to graduate school can seem daunting, but if you take it step by step it doesn't need to be so. But this means starting the process early -- like a year before you plan on applying -- and mak...
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This book looks terrific. Look forward to reading 😊
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Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Finally made the move over. Hello Blue Skyers! Will be posting/ reading about #anthropology, #environment, #climatechange, #water and #cities here.
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