P.C. Saidalavi

I am a cultural anthropologist with a background in Sociology, literary and cultural studies.

I work as an assistant professor at the department of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR. I joined the department in August 2022. 

I finished my PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in September 2022. My thesis looked at the social hierarchy among Muslims in Malabar, South India. It won the prestigious Raymond Firth Thesis Prize in Anthropology from the Australian National University in 2022.

My work centres around issues of hierarchy and caste, labour and technology, and studies of religions in South Asia. If you would like to do a PhD under my supervision in any of my areas of interest, please feel free to get in touch.

You can contact me through e-mail.