Dr. Salah Punathil

Salah Punathil was a guest in 2024. Salah is currently working on a research project titled ‘Racial Capitalism, Sexuality and Labour: Experience of Young North East Women in the Spa Industry in Hyderabad, India’. He is a Sociologist and teaches at the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. He has done his Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2018-2020) at the MPI MMG. He was a DAAD Guest Professor at CeMIS (Centre for Modern Indian Studies), University of Göttingen from 1 November 2023 to 31 January 2024. His research interests include ethnic violence, migration and borderlands, citizenship, Muslims in South Asia and the intersection of archives and ethnography. His book Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India was published by Routledge in 2019. He has published articles in journals such as Citizenship Studies, History and Anthropology, South Asia Research and Contributions to Indian Sociology. He was the recipient of M. N. Srinivas Award for Young Indian Sociologists in 2015 and Chancellor’s Award for Best Faculty at the University of Hyderabad.