VYJAYANTHI VENUTURUPALLI RAO
Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research 180 Varick Street New York, NY 10014 [email protected] [email protected]
EDUCATION
2002 University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences, Chicago, IL Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
1996 University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences, Chicago, IL M.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
1989 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA B.A. summa cum laude, with Highest Honors in Anthropology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, Spring 2016-Present Lecturer in Urban Studies
The New School, New York, 2005-2015 New School for Social Research, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, 2005-2015 Eugene Lang College, Assistant Professor in Anthropology Fall 2010-2015 Graduate Program in International Affairs, 2005-2010
Yale University, New Haven, 2002-2004 Post-Doctoral Associate, Yale Center for International and Area Studies & Research Director, Center for Cities and Globalization, YCIAS
OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research, New York Director, 2015-Present
Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, New York Visiting Scholar, 2014-15
Centre d’Etudes d’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France Associate Member, 2013-Present
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany, July 2010-Present Senior Research Partner, Comparative Study of Urban Aspirations in Mega-Cities Project
Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR) Mumbai 2001- 2014 Research Associate and Co-Director (2003-05)
Malmo Art Academy (Lund University) and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Malmo (Sweden) and Copenhagen (Denmark), Fall 2008 Visiting Instructor, Critical Studies Seminar
University of Chicago, Chicago, 1999-2002 Coordinator, The Globalization Project and The Regional Worlds Program (funded by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations)
REVIEWS, PANELS, CONSULTANCIES AND BOARDS
Center for Architecture, American Institute of Architects, New York Spring 2010-Spring 2011 Advisory Board Member and Contributor, Jugaad Urbanism Exhibition.
UCL Urban Laboratory, University College London, London, UK 2010-Present International Advisory Board.
Vera List Centre for Art and Politics, The New School Consultant and Collaborator on Vera List Center Fellows’ project 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, 2007 (Premiered at Document 12, Permanent Collection, MOMA, New York)
India-China Institute and Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, The New School Consultant and Collaborator on ICI-PIIM collaborative project on mapping Bombay and Shanghai, 2006
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
Participating Artist, Kochi-Muzhiris Biennale 2016 Developed Concept and Content for On Stage: Sathenagar Here as part of Samooha, an artist collective
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Individual Research and Development Grant (2014-15)
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India-China Institute Research Fellowship, The New School (2013-14)
Social Innovation Collaboratory Team Grant, Office of the Provost, The New School (2013-15)
Directrice d’etudes invitee, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d’etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris, France, (June 2012)
Eric Wolf Memorial Lecture, “Slum as Theory: A Speculative World History” at the University of Vienna (November 2011)
Faculty Development Grant, The New School, Office of the Provost (2008-2009)
Faculty Fellowship, India China Institute, The New School (2006-2008)
Co-PI, Ford Foundation Grant with Arjun Appadurai Three-year project titled “Cities, Citizenship and Globalization: An Experiment in Global Capacity Building”: $500,000 (2003-06). Grant funded Fellowships for Visiting Scholars and Students at The New School and a Conference titled “Urban Futures.”
Dissertation Fellowship Council for the Advanced Study of Peace and International Cooperation (CASPIC-MacArthur) (2000-01)
Dissertation Fellowship, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago (1995-1998)
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship for Research in India (1994-1995)
University Fellowship, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago (1989-94)
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society (1989) Harry and Betty Shapiro Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in Anthropology (1989)
Saval-Sachar Undergraduate Research Travel Award (1988) Wien International Scholarship, Brandeis University (1986-89)
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Informal Urbanism and Social Movements Urban Anthropology and Architecture Anthropology of Design and Contemporary Art Fieldwork and Ethnographic Methods
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Material Culture, Infrastructure and Technologies Memory and Heritage Development and Forced Migration Modern South Asia
PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
Commissioned Artist Project: “On Stage: Sathenagar Here,” Concept and Production of multi-media and multi-disciplinary artistic project as part of Samooha, an artist Collective for the Kochi-Muzhiris Biennale, 3rd Edition, Kochi, India (2016)
Edited Volumes: Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures in Rio de Janeiro Co-Editor, with Bruno Carvalho and Mariana Cavalcanti. New York: UR Books (2016)
Speculation.Now: Essays and Artwork. Editor, with Prem Krishnamurthy and Carin Kuoni. Durham: Duke University Press (2015)
Book Manuscripts: Speculative City: Architecture and the Arts of Dwelling in Global Mumbai.
50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning and City Making, Mumbai 1995-2015.
Peer Reviewed Articles: “Building Stories: Unsettling Family in Mumbai.” Harvard Design Magazine. No. 41 (2015): F/W 10-18.
Simone, AbdouMaliq and Vyjayanthi. Rao. “Securing the Majority: Living through Uncertainty in Jakarta.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 36. no. 2 (2012): 315- 335.
“Hindu Modern: Considering Gandhian Aesthetics.” Public Culture. 23. no. 2 (2011): 377-394.
“A New Urban Type? Gangsters, Terrorists and Global Cities,” Critique of Anthropology. 31. no. 1 (2011): 3-20.
“Slum as Theory.” Editoriale Lotus. 143 (2010): 10-17.
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“On-site and Off-Line: Producing Global Space,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 68. no. 4. (2009): 586-588.
“Embracing Urbanism: City as Archive.” New Literary History. 40. no. 2 (2009): 371-383.
“The Future in Crisis: Mumbai’s 21st Century,” in “Writing the Lines of Connection: Unveiling the Strange Language of Urbanization.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 32. no. 4 (2009): 989-1027.
“How to Read a Bomb: Scenes from Bombay’s Black Friday.” Public Culture. 19 no. 3 (2007): 567-592.
“Venture Capital.” with visual materials by Satya Pemmaraju and Robert Gerard Pietrusko Public Culture. 19. no. 3 (2007): 593-609.
“Proximate Distances: The Phenomenology of Density in Mumbai.” Built Environment. 33. no. 2 (2007): 227-248.
“Slum as Theory: The South/Asian City and Globalization,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Volume 30. no. 1 (2006): 225-232.
“Risk and the City: Bombay, Mumbai and other Theoretical Departures.” India Review. 5. no. 2 (2006): 220-232.
Book Chapters: “City Beyond Epithets: Olympic Urbanism Across the Globe.” In Occupy All Streets: Olympic Urbanism and Contested Futures. Edited by Bruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli. New York: UR Books, 2016.
Material Visions: Mumbai Development Plan 2034 and The Unfolding City. In Mumbai Reader 2016. Edited by Pankaj Joshi and Rahul Mehrotra. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2016.
Rao, Vyjayanthi and Vineet Diwadkar. From Informality to Parametricism. In Informal Market Worlds Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure. Edited by Peter Mortenbock, Helge Mooshammer, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. Amsterdam: NAi Publishers, 2015.
Infra-City: Speculations on Flux and History in Infrastructure Making. In Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context. Edited by Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane. New York: Routledge, 2014.
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The Future in Ruins. Imperial Debris. Edited by Ann L. Stoler. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Slum as Theory: Mega-Cities and Urban Models. in Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory. Edited by Stephen Cairns, Greig Crysler and Hilde Heynen. New York: Sage Publications, 2012.
Diversity, Density, Conviviality: Propositions for Urban Development. The Mumbai Reader ’10. Edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Pankaj Joshi. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2011.
Mill, Market, Milieu: Redevelopment and Rights to the City. Chawls of Mumbai: Galleries of Life. Edited by Neera Adarkar. Mumbai: ImprintOne, 2011.
Interventions into the Development Plan: Some Conceptual Notes. The Mumbai Reader ‘08. Edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Pankaj Joshi. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2009.
Rao, Vyjayanthi and Arjun Appadurai. Geographies of Inequality: Scale and Mobility in Defining the Commons. The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists. Edited by Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray. London: Blackwell-Wiley, 2008.
Macklin, Colleen and Rao, Vyjayanthi. Human Factors. Design Dictionary: perspectives on design terminology. Edited by Michael Erlhoff and Tim Marshall. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2008.
Pirating Utopia: Mumbai and the End of Planning. The Mumbai Reader ‘07. Edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Pankaj Joshi. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2008.
City as Archive: Contemporary Urban Transformations and the Possibility of Politics. Education and Urban Life. 20 Years of Educating Cities. Edited by Lali Bosch. Barcelona: International Association of Educating Cities, 2008.
Post-Industrial Transitions. Cities of the South: Citizenship and Exclusion in the 21st Century. Edited by Barbara Drieskens, Franck Mermier and Heiko Wimmen. London: Saqi Books, 2007.
Research Reports, Reviews, Reprints, Interviews and Commentaries:
Rao, Vyjayanthi et. al. “Deep Streets: Slow Violence and Speculation in Remaking Dharavi” Submission for Remaking Dharavi Competition hosted by the Urban Design Research Institute (Judges’ Honorable Mention), 2014.
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Slum as Theory. reprinted from Editoriale Lotus article. The Mumbai Reader ‘09. Edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Pankaj Joshi Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2010.
“Urbanism beyond Architecture: African cities as Infrastructure, Conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone and Filip de Boeck.” reprinted in African Studies Reader. 1 no. 1 (2009): 23-40, 2010.
“Invisible Urbanism/Africa, Conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone and Filip de Boeck.” Perspecta, Yale Journal of Architecture. 39 (2007): 78-91, 2007.
“Review essay of Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.” Constructs: Yale Architecture. Spring (2006).
Rao, Vyjayanthi. Heritage, Habitat and Diversity. Volume edited for UNESCO, Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogues, 2005.
Other Publications:
“How we brought an urban settlement from Mumbai alive at the Kochi Muziris Biennale: A reflection on Samooha Artist Collective,” Daily O, last modified December 23, 2016, http://www.dailyo.in/arts/kochi-muzhiris-biennale-dalit-writing-fort-kochi-urban- expression-mumbai/story/1/14696.html.
“A Place in Time: Conversations with the Curator, Sudarshan Shetty speaks to Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli,” Critical Collective, last modified November 28, 2016, http://www.criticalcollective.in/NoticeboardInner.aspx?Id=136.
“Ecologies of Citizenship: Otherness in the City,” The Goethe Institute’s Weltstadt Series, New York Zeitung, last modified, April 25, 2014, http://blog.goethe.de/weltstadt/uploads/140425_NYC_WeltstadtZeitung1.pdf.
“Territory: Non-Aligned Designs.” bilingual article, translated into Croatian and with an introduction by Aleksandra Wagner, Covjek i Prostor (Journal of the Croatian Society of Architects). 01-02 (2007): 36-43.
Catalogue Essays:
A Story, A Song. Catalogue Essay for film and solo exhibition by Sudarshan Shetty. Rolls Royce Arts Programme, 2016.
Shunya Ghar/Empty is this House. Catalogue Essay and Dialogues for Shunya Ghar, a film and solo exhibition by Sudarshan Shetty. New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art, 2016.
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Between Art and Anthropology. The More I Die, the Lighter I Get, Artist Monograph on Sudarshan Shetty. New York: Tilton Gallery & Bangalore: Gallery SKE, 2010.
This too shall pass. Catalogue Essay for Sudarshan Shetty Solo Exhibition. Mumbai: Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, 2010.
Transforming Indian Sculpture. Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists. Edited by Gayatri Sinha. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2010.
Proximate Distances: Paradoxes of Conviviality in Urban India. What Makes India Urban? Exhibition Catalogue. Berlin: Aedes, 2009.
Sudarshan Shetty: Object Lessons. India Contemporary show catalogue. The Hague: GEM Museum, 2009.
Making up the City. Last Mile, digital images by Satya Pemmaraju. Mumbai: Project 88 and Gallery SKE, 2006.
Love, solo exhibition by Sudarshan Shetty. Mumbai: Bodhi Art Gallery, 2006.
Post-Industrial Transitions: The Speculative Futures of Citizenship in Mumbai. The Mumbai Reader. Edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Pankaj Joshi, for the Venice Architecture Biennale, Mumbai Pavilion. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute, 2006.
Shift, catalogue essay for collaborative exhibition by Sudarshan Shetty, Shantanu Poredi and Manisha Agrawal. Mumbai: Chatterjee and Lal, 2004.
Dissertation (unpublished): Ruins and Recollections: On the Subjects of Displacement. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI. 2002.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
“Un-making the City: Artistic Intervention as Decolonial Tool,” Invited Talk as part of “That Around Which the Universe Revolves: On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space,” organized by Savvy Contemporary Laboratory of Form-Ideas (Berlin) and Kampnagel Center for Performing Arts, Hamburg (October 2017).
“Artifact and Memory: In Conversation with Artist Sudarshan Shetty,” Invited Talk at Conference “The Art of Independence: Visions of the Past and Future in India and Pakistan,” organized by Oxford University and Courtauld Institute for Art, Oxford and London, U.K. (October 2017).
“Impossible Objects: New terms for Urban Intelligence” Invited Panelist for Smart Cities:
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Impossible Objects, Political Objects and Measuring Objects conference organized by The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (April 2017).
“Occupy All Streets: panel discussion,” Invited Panel organized by the City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center (December 2016).
“Occupy All Streets: an editor’s view,” Invited Talk organized by Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies (November 2016).
“Beneath “the endless tent of the sky”: Earth, Water and Sky in Mumbai’s Housing Landscapes,” Invited Talk at “Landscapes of Housing” Conference organized by Dumbarton Oakes and Harvard-Mellon Initiative, Cambridge, MA (October 2016).
“Partitioning Earth and Sky: Vertical Urbanism in Mumbai,” Invited Talk at “The Center Cannot Hold” Conference, UCL at Calvert22 Gallery, London, UK (June 2016).
“What is urban about violence and what is violent about urbanism?” Invited Talk at “The Nexus of Urbanization, Violence and Conflict: Linking SDGs 11 and 16” at The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York (April 2016).
Invited Panelist, Wien Alumni Network’s Distinguished Alumni Panel on “Human Migration in the 21st Century,” New York (March 2016).
“Scenes from a Speculative City,” Invited Talk at Decoding Space - Doctor of Design Conference, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (March 2016).
“Loophole Planning and Infrastructure Making in Contemporary Mumbai,” Invited Talk to the Urbanism Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines Working Group at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (March 2016).
“Ten Connections to the City of the Future,” Invited Talk at “City Futures” Conference at The University of Pennsylvania School of Design (November 2015).
“Informal Public Demands” panel discussion at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (October 2015).
“Speculation, Now” Presented as part of the panel, “Speculative Tense: A Dialogue on Futures” at The New Museum, New York (July 2015).
“Ruins and the Future” Keynote Address to the McGill Anthropology Graduate Student Association Conference (April 2015).
“Ghostly Matter: a brief history of waste in Mumbai” Invited Talk at “Producing Waste, Producing Space” Conference at Princeton University School of Architecture (March 2015).
"Building Stories: Speculation and Reconstruction in Contemporary Mumbai," Presented at Harvard University Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series (November 2014).
“Building Stories,” Seminar presentation to the Anthropology Department, University of
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California at Irvine (May 2014).
“Radical Speculation,” Presented at Lebbeus Woods: A Celebration at The Cooper Union (April 2014).
“Ecologies of Citizenship: Otherness in the City,” Presented at City-Making and Citizenship conference at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York (March 2014).
“Urban Echo Chamber: The Mumbai Attacks as Mobile Events,” Presented at Violence, Insurgencies, Deceptions: Conceptualizing Urban Life in South Asia, Asia Research Institute, Singapore (May 2013).
“From Spectacle to Speculation” Invited Lecture at The Cooper Union Interdisciplinary Seminar, New York (April 2013).
“Slum Urbanism,” Presented at Learning from/Transforming Slums Conference at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (February 2013).
“Event, Mediation, Public: Citizenship and Spectacle in Mumbai,” Presented at the Anthropology Program Colloquia, CUNY, New York (February 2012).
“Speculative Cities: Structure and Infrastructure,” Presented at “Techniques of the City” Conference at Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, CA (March 2012).
“Setting into Motion: Landscapes of Mobility” Presented at “Unpacking the Nano” Symposium at Cornell University, Art, Architecture and Planning School (March 2011).
“Speculative Seas,” presented at “Sea of Marble” Symposium at Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, funded by Istanbul European Cultural Capital 2010, Istanbul, Turkey (December 2010).
“Circulating Ethnography: Public Culture in the Global City,” Presented at Presidential Panel at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans (November 2010).
“On Speculation,” Presentation and Public Debate with Vishaan Chakrabarti, Mark Halliday Professor of Real Estate Development at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (October 2010).
Moderator, UN-Habitat Forum on Urban Diversity, at the UN-Habitat Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010, Shanghai, PRC (October 2010).
“The City as Stage: Speculative Violence and the Violence of Speculation,” Presented at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany (September 2010).
“Regulation and Speculation: Comparative Tales from Mumbai,” Presented at the Colloquium on African Cities, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt (May 2010).
“After Industry: Life and its Milieus,” Presented at Landscapes of Modernity: Public Culture in South Asia, A Symposium in Honor of Carol A. Breckenridge, The New School (May 2010).
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“Mapping Asia/Mapping the Global,” Presented at the Experts Forum, ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain (February 2010).
“Hindu Modern: Considering Gandhian Aesthetics,” Presented at the Public Culture/Hind Swaraj Conference, Mumbai, India (December 2009).
“Reclaiming Mumbai,” Presented at the Cities in Development Seminar jointly organized by the Architecture Faculty and the Anthropology Department of Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium (December 2009).
“Emerging Exchanges: New Architectures of India,” The Architecture League and Parsons The New School for Design (April 2009).
“Concurrent Urbanities,” Presented at Symposium organized by Parsons The New School for Design (April 2009).
“Limited Access: Urbanism Inc.,” Participant in Panel Discussion organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (March 2009).
“Image Wars: Conflict, Media, Globalization,” Participant in Symposium organized in conjunction with Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s exhibition Zones of Conflict (January 2009).
“Speculative Designs: Urban Games and Social Transformation,” panel presentation for Design, Social Change and Social Science: Catalyzing Interactions” at The New School (February 2008).
“Broadcasting Beijing: An Ethnography of the CCTV Building, Beijing,” presentation for Vexed Urbanism: A Symposium on Design and the Social at The New School (February 2008).
“Phantom Debris and the Future in Ruins,” Presented at “Scarred Landscapes/Imperial Debris: Reflections on the Ruins of Empire,” workshop at The New School, New York (October 2006).
“Facts-in-Ruins: Archaeology, Memory and Development,” Presented in the Peripheral Visions in Ethnography and History Lecture Series, Department of Anthropology, The New School, New York (September 2006).
“The Makeshift Temple,” (co-authored with Faisal Devji), Presented at “Non-Violence: The Social Life of a Concept,” conference at The New School, New York (May 2006).
“Seeing the Visible: Speculative Futures,” Presented at “Cities in a World of Migration: India and China in Global Perspective,” conference at The New School, New York (April 2006).
“Contemporaneity and Difference: A Dialogue on Indian and Chinese Visual Arts with Artists Sudarshan Shetty and Xu Bing,” panel at The New School, New York (April 2006).
“The Crisis of the Future and the Future as Crisis: Comedies of Speculation,” Presented at “Urban Futures” Workshop, The New School, New York (March 2006).
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“Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land, and the Political Agency of the Artist – A Public Workshop,” presented at Apex Art Gallery, organized by The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School (November 2007).
“Mobile Media and New Research Paradigms,” presentation for MAKE: A Studio-Based Research Symposium at Parsons The New School for Design (October 2007).
“Slum as Theory: Density and Development,” presentation on Urban Metabolism panel, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco (April 2007).
“Comedies of Speculation: Making Mumbai a World Class City,” Presented in Lectures in Planning Series, Columbia University (April 2007).
“Art and Research Communities,” Presented at “ReForming India: Artistic Collectives Bend International Art Practices,” curated by Nina Moentman at The Vera List Centre for Art and Politics, The New School, New York (April 2007).
“Mumbai’s Global Transition,” Presented at the Urban Anthropology Seminar at Katholieke University Leuven (December 2006).
“Farmers, Bombers and Suicide in the Global Age,” Presented at “Global Lies/Local Violence” at the Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona (November 2006).
“Ruins and Recollections: Memory, Historicity and Development,” Presented at The South Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York (November 2006).
“Post-Industrial Transitions: Citizenship and Historicity in Mumbai’s ‘World-Class’ Makeover,” Presentation at University of Toronto’s Center for International Studies Development Seminar Series, University of Toronto, Toronto (February 2006).
“Transit City/Transient Citizenship: The Mumbai Makeover Project,” Presented at “Cities and Globalization: Challenges to Citizenship,” organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, the Institut Francais du Proche Orient and American University, Beirut, Beirut (December 2005)
“Planning and the Built Environment,” Presented at “Mumbai Futures” conference, PUKAR, Mumbai, India (August 2005).
“Systemic Terror, or City as Stage,” Presented at “Urban Traumas” symposium, Centro do Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain (July 2004)
“Enclaves and the Limits of the City,” Presented at Interracio 2004 (organized by CERC, Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain (May 2004).
“Catastrophic Commemorations: Infrastructure as Archive,” Presented at Urban Vulnerabilities and Network Failure conference at University of Salford, Manchester, UK (April 2004).
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“Hindu Modern: Modernist Memorials, Nationalist Architectures and Figures of Gandhi in Contemporary India,” Presented at Yale University’s South Asian Studies Council’s annual conference on Gandhi, New Haven (April 2004).
“Cities and Securities,” presented at the Summer School on Globalization of the Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization, Johannesburg, South Africa (February 2004).
“Catastrophic Commemorations: Infrastructure as Archive in the Age of Emergency” Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings (November 2003).
“Geographies of Inequality: Scale and Mobility as Features of the Commons,” paper co- authored with Dr. Arjun Appadurai, presented at “Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists” conference organized by University of California, Berkeley in Goa, India (August 2003).
TEACHING
Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, CUNY
Urban Studies Courses · Cities and Globalization · An Anthropological Approach to Design Agency · Reading Chicago: from Urban Planning to Social Engineering
The New School [New School for Social Research (NSSR), Lang (Undergraduate College), New School for Public Engagement (NSPE) & Parsons The New School for Design
Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research · “Beyond Human Rights: New Ethnographies of Ethics” · “Limits of Ethics: Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Ethnography” · “Anthropology as a History of the Present” · “Critical Foundations of Anthropological Theory” · “Doctoral Pro-seminar in Anthropological Methods” · “Aesthetic Entanglements” · “Anthropology of Global Flows” · “The Urban Beyond: Contemporary Landscapes and the Technological Sublime” · “Cities and Globalization” · “Gandhi and his Interlocutors” (Joint Instructor with Faisal Devji)
Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School for Public Engagement · “Global Flows” · “Urban Foundation Course” (Joint Instructor with Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman)
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Eugene Lang College and University Wide Undergraduate Courses, The New School: · “Violence and Non-Violence” (Joint Instructor with Faisal Devji) · “Cities and Globalization” · “Anthropology, Art and Design”
Parsons, The New School for Design · “Collaborative Studio: Mobile Media” (Joint Instructor with Colleen Macklin) · “War, Trade and Desire: Conflicting Architectures of Global Cities” (Joint Instructor with Brian McGrath) · “Global Exchange” (Joint Instructor with Brian McGrath and Jane Pirone) · “Design and Ethnography” (Joint Instructor with Colleen Macklin and Jamer Hunt)
Yale University · Globalization and South Asian Cities, 2003
University of Chicago
· Ethnic Violence in Global Perspective (Joint Instructor with Arjun Appadurai), 2002 · Languages of Civilization: Social Experience and Political Movements in Contemporary South Asia, 2002 · Wealth, Power and Virtue (Undergraduate Social Science Core Curriculum), 2001
ACADEMIC SERVICE Manuscript Reviewer for International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Cultural Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Historical Sociology, Samaj (Journal of the Centre d’Etudes de Asie du Sud, ESHSS), Footprint (Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands).
External Critic for Columbia University’s Graduate School of Art, Architecture and Planning, Yale University School of Architecture and the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, CUNY, New York.
Grant Reviewer for SSHRC (Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), NSF.
CONFERENCES, STUDIOS, WORKSHOPS ORGANIZATION
Conferences Organized:
2004 “Enclave,” at Yale University, New Haven, March (Co-organizer, with Keller Easterling)
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2004 “Risk, Rationality and City-Life,” Second Summer School of the Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization, at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, February (Member, International Organizing Committee)
2003 “African Cities: Remaking the Urban World,” at Yale University, New Haven, December (Co-convener with AbdouMaliq Simone)
2003 “Cities and Universities: New Knowledge Networks in the Era of Globalization,” at Yale University, New Haven, May (Co-organizer, with Arjun Appadurai)
2001 “Genealogies of Modernity,” First Summer School of the Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization, at the University of Amsterdam, August-September (Member, International Organizing Committee)
2000 “Mobile Geographies, Plural Histories: Rethinking Area Studies,” at the University of Chicago, May (Conference Coordinator)
The New School:
2013 “(New) Public Goods: Design, Aesthetics and Politics,” at Parsons The New School for Design, October (Co-organizer, with Eduardo Stazowski, Scott Brown and Virginia Tassinari)
2011 “Concurrent Urbanities II,” Symposium at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York (co-organizer, with Miodrag Mitrasinovic).
2010 “Landscapes of Modernity: Public Culture in South Asia, A Symposium in Honor of Carol A. Breckenridge,” held at the The New School, New York, May 10, 2010 (Co- organizer, with Ashok Gurung, The India-China Institute and Asian Connections).
2008 “Design, Social Change and Social Science,” at The New School, New York, February 25, 2008.
2006 “Urban Futures”, at The New School, New York, March 30, 31 and April 1 (Co-organizer, with Carol A. Breckenridge)
Studios Organized (The New School):
2008 Global Exchange Laboratory Monsoon Mobile Studio, Mumbai, (http://pukarmobilestudio.wordpress.com/)
Workshops Organized (The New School): 2010 “Speculation,” Interdisciplinary Workshop co-organized with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
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2008 “Visualization as Ethnographic Method,” Workshop on Visualization with Robert G. Pietrusko and Stuart Smith, Moderated by Vyjayanthi Rao and Organized with Brian McGrath and Jane Pirone.
2008 “Global Flows and Climate Change” with SPURSE and La Fantastica, organized by Brian McGrath, Jane Pirone and Vyjayanthi Rao.
LANGUAGES Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, French
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Jetprole and Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India: Research for dissertation “Ruins and Recollections” on displacement, development and archaeological heritage conservation. 1995-98. Mumbai, India: Research for book manuscript Speculative City: Infrastructure and Complexity in Global Mumbai. 2005-2010. Shanghai and Beijing, China: Preliminary research for a comparative project on Indian and Chinese urbanism. Fall 2009. Cairo, Egypt: Preliminary research for a comparative project on Indian and African urbanism. Summer 2010.
REFERENCES: Available on Request
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