Nayanika Mathur
Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College
I am an Anthropologist of South Asia with wide-ranging research and teaching interests in the anthropology of politics, development, environment, law, human-animal studies, and research methods. I was educated at the Universities of Delhi (B.A. and M.A.) and Cambridge (MPhil and PhD). Before joining Oxford in October 2017 I held postdoctoral research fellowships awarded by the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy at the University of Cambridge.
For some of my work on the climate crisis and theorising the Anthropocene, see:
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/predation
Faculty page: https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-nayanika-mathur
Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
