RAJEEV KADAMBI

Department of Political Science Brown Box 1844, 36 Prospect Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912 [email protected] Mobile: 617-874-7636

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate (Political Theory). Expected date of completion: May 1, 2019 Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Dissertation: Politics as a Quest for the Spiritual: Reading Gandhian, Buddhist, and Humanist Ethical Frameworks Committee: Sharon Krause (Chair), Leela Gandhi, Anthony Bogues, and Uday Singh Mehta

MA. (2014), Brown University

LL.M. (2010), Boston College Law School, Boston, U.S.A.

B.A., B.L. (Hons.) (2004), National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), University of Law, Telangana,

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Political Theory; Comparative Political Theory; Ancient and Modern Political Thought; Postcolonial Theory; Ethics; South Asian Political Thought; Africana Political Thought; Critical Theory; South Asian Religion and Politics; and Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

ACADEMIC & RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS Academic Assistant Professor & Assistant Director Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence, Jindal Global Law School, India (2011-2012)

Lecturer-in-Law, School of Law, , India (2008-2009)

Research Visiting Scholar, , India (2013)

Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Developing Society (CSDS), India (2013)

Research Fellow, Azim Premji University, India (2011)

Visiting Scholar, Boston College Law School, U.S.A. (2010- 2011)

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Research Scholar, Center for Disability Studies, , India (2010- 2011)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Associate-litigation, Dua Associates, India (2004-2007)

PUBLICATIONS

Articles & Essays “Ambedkar’s Reframing of the ‘Political’ as Ethical Practice” 4 (2) Studies in Indian Politics (2016) (peer-reviewed)

“Need to Change the Classroom: Reconciling Inquiry and Teaching” 9 Socio-Legal Review, 122 (2013) (by invitation) (student edited and peer-reviewed)

“Jurisprudence of Rescue in Tort Law,” 1 Scientia Juris 159 (2011) (peer-reviewed)

“One Such Pattern in the Indian Legal Academy,” 20 Education and Law Journal 129 (2010) (peer-reviewed)

“Law as a Medium of Democratic Discourse,” 3 NUJS Law Review 265 (2010) (student edited and peer-reviewed)

“Right to Vote as a Fundamental Right: ‘Mistaking the Woods for Trees,’” 3 Indian Journal of Constitutional Law 181 (2009) (student edited and peer-reviewed)

Book Reviews O. Chinnappa Reddy, The Court and the Constitution of India: Summits and Shallows (OUP, 2009), 43 The George Washington International Law Review 813 (2011)

Stan Van Hooft & Wim Vanderkerckhove (eds.), Questioning Cosmopolitanism (Springer 2010), 10 Political Studies Review 119 (2011)

Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (OUP, 2009), 24 Emory International Law Review 949 (2010)

Work in Progress “The Violence of Nonviolence: Ahimsa as a Mode of Ethical Being” (draft) “Politics as Quest for the Spiritual: Reading Gandhi with Foucault on Ethics” (draft) “Pathologies of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: M.N. Roy on Politics and Ethics” (draft) “Gandhi on the Meaning of Work” (draft)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor

Brown University, U.S.A. Introduction to South Asia (Seminar Course, Fall 2018) Page 2 of 5

NALSAR University of Law, India Ideas of Freedom: Recovering the Self and Society (Seminar Course, 2014)

Jindal Global Law School, India Constitutional Law-1 (2012 & 2011) Constitutional Law- II (2011) Comparative Constitutional Law (Seminar Course, 2011)

Christ University, India Tort Law (2009) Jurisprudence (2008) Legal Research & Writing (2008)

Teaching Assistant at Brown University Introduction to Political Thought (Spring 2017) Politics, Economy, and Society of India (Spring 2014 & 2015) Constitutional Law (Fall 2014 & 2016) Politics, State, and Markets (Fall 2013)

FELLOWSHIPS & RESEARCH GRANTS

2018 Graduate Prize Teaching Fellowship, Center for Contemporary South Asia 2018 Research Grant, Cogut Institute for the Humanities 2017 Graduate Fellow, Cogut Institute for the Humanities 2016 Graduate Fellow, Center for Contemporary South Asia 2015 Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Department of Political Science 2013 Graduate Fellow, Brown-India Initiative

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

U.S.A. 2018 “The Violence of Nonviolence: Ahimsa as a Mode of Ethical Being,” Graduate Political Theory Colloquium, Department of Political Science, Brown University

2018 “The Violence of Nonviolence: Ahimsa as a Mode of Ethical Being,” Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University

2017 “Pathologies of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: M.N. Roy on Politics and Ethics,” Cogut Institute of Humanities, Brown University

2017 “Pathologies of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: M.N. Roy on Politics and Ethics,” Graduate Political Philosophy Workshop (GPPW), Brown University

2013 “The Intersectional Constitution of the Duty to Provide Support: Examining the Indian Construction of Legal Capacity with Support for Persons with Disabilities,” Graduate Political Philosophy Workshop (GPPW), Brown University

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2013 “The Intersectional Constitution of the Duty to Provide Support: Examining the Indian Construction of Legal Capacity with Support for Persons with Disabilities,” Second Annual Younger Comparativists Committee Conference (YCC), Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University

2013 “Gandhian Praxis of Freedom,” Graduate Student Workshop, Brown-India, Brown University

India

2018 “Scholar as Spiritual Aspirant,” Panel on Research Methods, NALSAR University of Law

2018 “Research Methods,” Panel on Research Methods, NALSAR University of Law

2016 “Ambedkar’s Redefinition of the ‘Political’ as Ethical Practice,” Azim Premji University

2014 “Gandhian Conception of Work,” NALSAR Law University

2013 “Gandhian Conception of Work,” Azim Premji University

2013 “Gandhian Praxis of Freedom,” Center for Law and Policy Research (CLPR)

REFERENCES

1.Sharon Krause Professor of Political Science Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (401) 863-6095 [email protected]

2. Leela Gandhi Professor of English & Humanities Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (401) 863-3735 [email protected]

3. Uday Singh Mehta Professor of Political Science The Graduate Center, CUNY New York, 10016 (212) 817 8670 [email protected]

4. Anthony Bogues Professor of Africana Studies Page 4 of 5

Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, 02912 (401) 863-1782 [email protected]

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