Doctorate granted under the guidance of Prof. R.Mahalakshmi and Prof. Pius Malekandathil at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the topic: Bodies, Power and Identities in Premodern Kerala.
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kannur University
Recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholarship at The Leiden Institute of History, Leiden University, The Netherlands, under the Erasmus Mundus - IBIES Programme, 2014-2015
Awarded Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai Young Historian Prize (2017) instituted by the Kerala History Congress at the Third Kerala History Congress for the paper ‘Of Texts and Practice and Also of Discourse and Deviance; An Outline of the Regulation of Bodies in Medieval Kerala’
• Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Basic Science, SRM University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, 2019-2022
• Faculty Coordinator, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences, SRM University-AP, 2020-2022.
• Former Assistant Professor , Christ University, Bengaluru, 2016-17
• Assistant Professor (Adhoc), Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University, Jan-April 2018.
• Teaching Assistant for the course 'Ancient Societies' at the Centre for Historical Studies, 2013.
• Guest Lecturer at Bharat Matha College, Ernakulam (Monsoon semester, 2015).
• Presently working on a project to translate Unnuneelisandesham for DC Books, Kottayam.
• Completed an ethno-archaeological survey of Jewish spaces in Kerala,India
• Photo-documentation of Mattancherry (Dutch) palace and Padmanabhapuram Palace, Thakkala, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Archival work at State Archives in Kerala, India, Nationaal Archief , The Hague, Netherlands and The National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
Experience
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–presentResearcher , Jawaharlal Nehru University
Education
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2013Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.Phil
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2011Jawaharlal Nehru University, MA
Publications
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2016The Investigator, Ayurveda: The Non Man and Embodiment
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2016Café Dissensus, JNU and Its Tradition(s) of Dissent
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2016Itinerario:International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Book Review, Shu Jyuan Deiwiks, Bernhard Führer and Therese Geulen, eds. Europe Meets China—China Meets Europe
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2015Global Histories, Plants,Power and Knowledge; An Exploration of the Imperial Networks and the Circuits of Botanical Knowledge Systems on the Western Coast of India
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2015Itinerario:International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Book Review, Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester, eds. The East India Company and The Natural World
Grants and Contracts
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2016Senior Research Fellowship
- Role:
- PhD Scholar
- Funding Source:
- Union Grants Commission, Government of India
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2015Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellowship
- Role:
- Visiting PhD Scholar
- Funding Source:
- European Union
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2011Junior Research Fellowship
- Role:
- Research Scholar
- Funding Source:
- Union Grants Commission,India
Professional Memberships
- Indian History Congress
- Kerala History Congress
- IAWAWSA ;International Association of Women Archaeologists Working in South Asia
- Delhi, India
- Article Feed
- malavika_binny@yahoo.com
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