Akhil Gupta

PROFESSOR

Ph.D. Stanford University Dept. of Engineering-Economic Systems, 1988

(Spring 2013 Office Hours: Th 2:00-3:45 pm)

Class Websites

Office: 382 HAINES HALL
Phone: 310-794-7969
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: akgupta@anthro.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Political Economy; Postcolonialism; Globalization; Environmental Anthropology

Research Interests

Ethnography of information technology, the state and development, anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, space and place, history of anthropology, applied anthropology; India and South Asia.

Selected Publications

2012 Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Duke Univ. Press.
2010 The Indian State After Liberalization, (edited with K. Sivaramakrishnan), Routledge.
2006 The Anthropology of the State: A Reader (edited with Aradhana Sharma), Blackwell.
2002 Caste and Outcast (edited with Gordon Chang and Purnima Mankekar), Stanford Univ. Press.
1998 Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India, Duke University Press.
1997 Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (edited with James Ferguson), Duke University Press.
1997 Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (edited with James Ferguson), Univ. of California Press.

Grants

2009 American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship

Awards

2009 Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris. May-June.
2008 Visiting Professor, Danish Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography, August-September.
2007 Goel Lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

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