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Faculty Prof. Vishnupad

Prof. Vishnupad

Professor & Dean

Department of Media Studies, Sociology and Anthropology

Contact Details

vishnupad.m@srmap.edu.in

Office Location

Easwari School of Liberal Arts Media Studies Faculty Prof. Vishnupad

Faculty Information

Education

2011
PhD (Anthropology)
Columbia University
USA
1999
MA (Sociology)
SUNY- Binghamton
USA
1994
MA (Political Science)
Delhi University
India
1992
BA (Political Science)
Delhi University
India

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Experience

  • 2017-2023: Associate Professor, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
  • 2012- 2017- Assistant Professor, School of Development (SOD), and School of Policy and Governance (SPG), Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
  • 2007-2011- Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  • 1996-2007- Teaching, Research and Graduate Assistant for various courses and professors in SUNY, Binghamton, and Columbia University

Research Interest

  • Experience of sociality in post-liberalisation India
  • New Social Media, IT technologies, governance practices
  • Secular question in India
  • Continental philosophy and Freudo-Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Awards

  • 2006-7. ISERP Fellowship (Mellon Graduate Fellows Program) Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University, NY.
  • 2006. GSAS Fellowship, (Andrew Mellon Foundation, John W. Kluge Endowment), Columbia University, NY.
  • 2003-4. Columbia University Dissertation Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, NY. (Dissertation Fieldwork research fund)
  • 1999-2004, 2005-6. Columbia University President’s Fellowship for Ph.D. Anthropology Department, Columbia University, NY.
  • 1995-96. SUNY Research Foundation Fellowship, Sociology Department, SUNY Binghamton.

Memberships

  • American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Publications

  • Liberal Secularity and the Indian State: Notes on the Sabrimala Judgement

    Prof. Vishnupad

    Source Title: Liberalism and its Encounters in India: Some Interdisciplinary Approaches,

    View abstract ⏷

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Interests

  • Continental philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis
  • Political anthropology new media and Indian politics
  • The Secular Question

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Education
1992
BA (Political Science)
Delhi University
India
1994
MA (Political Science)
Delhi University
India
1999
MA (Sociology)
SUNY- Binghamton
USA
2011
PhD (Anthropology)
Columbia University
USA
Experience
  • 2017-2023: Associate Professor, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
  • 2012- 2017- Assistant Professor, School of Development (SOD), and School of Policy and Governance (SPG), Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
  • 2007-2011- Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  • 1996-2007- Teaching, Research and Graduate Assistant for various courses and professors in SUNY, Binghamton, and Columbia University
Research Interests
  • Experience of sociality in post-liberalisation India
  • New Social Media, IT technologies, governance practices
  • Secular question in India
  • Continental philosophy and Freudo-Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Awards & Fellowships
  • 2006-7. ISERP Fellowship (Mellon Graduate Fellows Program) Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University, NY.
  • 2006. GSAS Fellowship, (Andrew Mellon Foundation, John W. Kluge Endowment), Columbia University, NY.
  • 2003-4. Columbia University Dissertation Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, NY. (Dissertation Fieldwork research fund)
  • 1999-2004, 2005-6. Columbia University President’s Fellowship for Ph.D. Anthropology Department, Columbia University, NY.
  • 1995-96. SUNY Research Foundation Fellowship, Sociology Department, SUNY Binghamton.
Memberships
  • American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Publications

  • Liberal Secularity and the Indian State: Notes on the Sabrimala Judgement

    Prof. Vishnupad

    Source Title: Liberalism and its Encounters in India: Some Interdisciplinary Approaches,

    View abstract ⏷

    -
Contact Details

vishnupad.m@srmap.edu.in

Scholars
Interests

  • Continental philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis
  • Political anthropology new media and Indian politics
  • The Secular Question

Education
1992
BA (Political Science)
Delhi University
India
1994
MA (Political Science)
Delhi University
India
1999
MA (Sociology)
SUNY- Binghamton
USA
2011
PhD (Anthropology)
Columbia University
USA
Experience
  • 2017-2023: Associate Professor, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
  • 2012- 2017- Assistant Professor, School of Development (SOD), and School of Policy and Governance (SPG), Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
  • 2007-2011- Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
  • 1996-2007- Teaching, Research and Graduate Assistant for various courses and professors in SUNY, Binghamton, and Columbia University
Research Interests
  • Experience of sociality in post-liberalisation India
  • New Social Media, IT technologies, governance practices
  • Secular question in India
  • Continental philosophy and Freudo-Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Awards & Fellowships
  • 2006-7. ISERP Fellowship (Mellon Graduate Fellows Program) Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University, NY.
  • 2006. GSAS Fellowship, (Andrew Mellon Foundation, John W. Kluge Endowment), Columbia University, NY.
  • 2003-4. Columbia University Dissertation Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, NY. (Dissertation Fieldwork research fund)
  • 1999-2004, 2005-6. Columbia University President’s Fellowship for Ph.D. Anthropology Department, Columbia University, NY.
  • 1995-96. SUNY Research Foundation Fellowship, Sociology Department, SUNY Binghamton.
Memberships
  • American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Publications

  • Liberal Secularity and the Indian State: Notes on the Sabrimala Judgement

    Prof. Vishnupad

    Source Title: Liberalism and its Encounters in India: Some Interdisciplinary Approaches,

    View abstract ⏷

    -
Contact Details

vishnupad.m@srmap.edu.in

Scholars