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Area and Focus of Research

 

Doctoral Programme

 

Research Projects

 

Affiliates

 

Malcolm Adiseshiah Visiting Professor

 

Malcolm Adiseshiah Award

 
 

 
 

Affiliates

   

Affiliates

The Institute has been an important host to a number of visiting faculty and doctoral and post-doctoral affiliates. This, and its collaboration on important research projects and other academic programmes such as sponsoring seminars by them and conducting sponsored seminars, have resulted in mutually beneficial interaction and association with prestigious academic and development institutions in India and abroad.

 


Ms. Wee Teng Soh, Ph.D. Student, University of North Carolina, USA.  Title: The Regional History and Development of Organic Farming In Tamil Nadu. Duration (16-7-2009 to 15.7.2010) Guide: K. Nagaraj.

Mr. Matthew H. Baxter, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA Title: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi: A Study in Comparative Political Theory. Duration (5.1.09 to 4.10.09) Guide: A.R. Venkatachalapathy.

Ms. Kitana S. Ananda, Colombia University, New York, USA Title: Home, Family and Politics after a Ceasefire: Becoming Tamil Subjects in Diaspora. Duration (7.1.2009 to 6.07.2009) Guide: A.R. Venkatachalapathy.

Mr. Leonardo Niccolai, Ph.D. Student, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, U.K. Title: Development with Identity: Using Traditional Knowledge in Promotion of Sustainable Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation in Nilgiris Biosphere. Duration (24.12.2008 to 23.06.2009) Guide: Ajit Menon.

Ms. Annika Wetlesen, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway Title: Implementation of labour standards: Experiences from the construction industry in Chennai, India. Duration (16.12.08 to 15.06.09) Guide: M. Vijayabaskar.

Dr. Grace Carswell, Department of Geography, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Title: Transforming Livelihoods: Migration,work and poverty in the Tiruppur garment cluster, India. Duration (6.11.08 to 5.5.09) Guide: P. Radhakrishnan.

Dr. Geert De Neve, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Title: Transforming Livelihoods: Migration,work and poverty in the Tiruppur garment cluster, India. Duration( 6.11.08 to 5.5.09) Guide: P. Radhakrishnan.

Ms. Giulia Battaglia, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Title: Media activism and documentary film making in south India. Duration (15.4.08 to 14.4.09) Guide:  A. R. Venkatachalapathy.

Ms.Roos Gerritson, CNWS, School of Asia, African and Amerindian Studies, The Netherlands. From Movie Star to Public Star: The Entanglement of Cinema and Politics in South India. Duration (7.12.07 to 6.11.08) Guide:  A. R. Venkatachalapathy.

Ms.Sudha Narayan, Ph.D.Student, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, U.S.A. Title: Choosing Farmers: Selection and Screening Mechanisms in Contract Farming Systems in India. Duration (2.1.08 to 30.9.08) Guide: K. Nagaraj.

Ms. Victoria Loblay,6/5, Imperial Ave, Bondi, NSW,Australia Title: Arresting Amnicentesis: The Impact of regulating pre-natal diagnostic technology in Tamil Nadu, South India. Duration ( 31.3.08 to 31.8.08) Guide:  S. Anandhi.


2003-2004

Dr. Balakrishna Rajagopal, Ford International Professor of Law and Development, Massachuselts Institute of Technology (10-12-2003)

Dr. Cecilia C. Van Hollen, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, Guide: Prof. Padmini Swaminathan (3-12-2003).

Mr. Darshan Ambalavanar, Harvard University, Arumuga Navalar and Modernity in South Asia, Guide : Dr. A. R. Venkatachalapathy (28-7-2003).

Dr. Filippo Osella, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex and Dr. Caroline Osella, Lecturer in Sociology & Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, Guide : Prof. V. K. Natraj (21-10-2002).

Mr. Francis P. Cody, Fulbright Scholar and Doctoral candidate, University of Michigan, Language Literacy and Power in Tamilnadu, India, Guide : Dr. A. R. Venkatachalapathy (13-8-2002).

Dr. Gunnel Cederl, Uppsala University, Claims and Right: The Politics of Forest in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, Guide: Prof. S. Subramanian (6-10-2003)

Ms. Krishten C. Bloomer, studying Ph.D. at University of Chicago, De-centering the subject: Women and Popular Catholicism in Tamilnadu, Guide: Dr. A. R. Venkatachalapathy (5-2-2004).

Dr. Nitish Jha, formerly Post doctoral Scientist at the International Management Institute, South Africa, Guide : Prof. S. Janakarajan (5-5-2004).

Ms. Pushpa Arabindo, M.Phil/Ph.D. Student in Urban Planning at the department of the Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (10-10-2003)

 


2002-2003

Dr. Caroline Osella, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, U.K., Consumption in India: Commercialisation, Social Mobility and Changing Identities, Guide : Prof. V. K. Natraj

Dr. Flilippo Osella, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex, Guide : Prof. V. K. Natraj

Mr. Darshan Ambalavanar, Harvard University, Arumuga Navalar and Modernity in South Asia, Guide : Dr. A. R. Venkatachalapathy

Mr. Francis P. Cody, Fulbright Scholar and Doctoral candidate, University of Michigan, Language Literacy and Power in Tamilnadu, India, Guide : Dr. A. R. Venkatachalapathy

 


2001-2002

Nicholas Nisbett, University of Sussex, U.K., Information and Communication Technology in Community Development, Guide : Prof. Nirmal Sengupta

Caroline Osella, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, U.K., Consumption in India: Commercialisation, Social Mobility and Changing Identities, Guide : Prof. V.K. Natraj

S.M. Abdul Khader Fakhri, Independent Scholar, Chennai, Caste, Ethnicity and nation in the politics of the Muslims in Tamilnadu, India 1930-1967(rewriting), Guide : Prof. Padmini Swaminathan

Martin Rogers, University of Sussex, U.K., Men and the Performing Arts and media in Chennai, Guide: Dr. Ananta Kumar Giri