Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Nayanika Mathur is a Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She is additionally a Research Fellow on a Leverhulme-funded project exploring the relationship between conspiracy and democracy at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. Her first book, Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy, and the Developmental State in Himalayan India (Cambridge University Press 2016), makes an ethnographic case for re-assessing the nature and performance of the Indian state.
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2016–presentLecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sussex
Education
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2010University of Cambridge, PhD in Social Anthropology
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