Jean-Thomas Martelli (he/him · 4/24 · pdf)
Education
| 2012 – 2018 | PhD in Political Science and Sociology, King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Title: “JNU is not Just Where you go, it’s What you Become”: Everyday Political Socialization and Left Activism at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Supervisors: Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot & Prof. Louise Tillin. |
| 2010 – 2012 | Joint MA in Global Studies, Erasmus Mundus Global Studies (EMGS) Programme, University of Roskilde, Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Wrocław. |
| 2006 – 2012 | BA and MA in Political Science and International Affairs, Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence. Associate Degree in Political Science and Government, University of Ottawa. |
Academic positions
| 2023 – | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris. Research foci in political representation: populist claims, entering politics, the fashioning of dissent, party-led political consultancy, and generational student politics in saffron India. |
| 2023 – | Scientific Secretary, French Association of Political Science / Association Française de Science Politique (AFSP). |
| 2022 – 2023 | Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University. |
| 2022 – 2023 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. |
| 2018 – 2022 | Head Researcher, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Politics and Society Division, New Delhi (French National Scientific Research Council unit, UMIFRE 20 MEAE-CNRS). |
| 2017 – 2018 | Postdoctoral fellow at CERI-Sciences Po Paris (UMR7050) as part of the research project “Indian Subcontinent’s Shared Sacred Sites: Religious Interactions and Relations with the Other” (I-SHARE) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). |
| 2016 – 2018 | Sessional Lecturer, Sciences Po Paris. |
Peer-reviewed articles
| 2023 | “The sound, the Fury and the Silences: The Politics of Influence in Digital India,” introduction to the guest edited special section of Global Politics, 14(5): 880–886 (with Aasim Khan and Ralph Schroeder), 2023, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13308. 🔗 |
| 2023 | “Populist Careers as Autonomy-making: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Political Entry in North India,” Polity, 55(4):784-811, DOI: 10.1086/726339. 🔗 |
| 2023 | “Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence from India,” Political Psychology 44(5):1141–60, DOI: 10.1111/pops.12881 (with Christophe Jaffrelot). 🔗 |
| 2023 | “Populism à la Carte: The paradoxical political communication of Narendra Modi on Twitter,” Global Policy, 14(5):899-911, 2023, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13173 (with Vihang Jumle). 🔗 |
| 2022 | “Chat-Hi: Exploring Indian National Identity Through Machine-Generated Text,” Leonardo 55(1):1-20, DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02141 (with Salil Parekh). 🔗 |
| 2021 | “The Politics of our Selves: Left Self-fashioning and the Production of Representative Claims in Everyday Indian Campus Politics,” Modern Asian Studies 55(6):1972-45, DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X2000013X. 🔗 |
| 2021 | “Les campus comme bastion d’opposition contre la communalisation de l’Inde : deux cas d’étude à New Delhi,” Sociétés contemporaines 121(1):171-183, DOI: 10.3917/soco.121.0171 (with Kristina Garalytė and the collective individual Camille Noûs). 🔗 |
| 2020 | “Can the Popular Disembody Populism? Students and the Reappropriation of the Nationalist Floating Signifier in Contemporary Indian Politics,” Studies in Indian Politics 9(1):7-20, DOI: 10.1177/2321023021999140. 🔗 |
| 2020 | “Populaire contre Populisme. Les dharnas étudiantes comme force d’opposition en Inde,” Mouvements 3, Essay section: 1-21, DOI: 10.3917/mouv.103.0091. 🔗 |
| 2019 | “Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in South Asia,” Introduction to the guest edited special issue of SAMAJ: Student Politics in South Asia 22(4):1-45, DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6486 (with Kristina Garalytė). 🔗 |
| 2019 | “The Spillovers of Competition: Value-based Activism and the Democratization of Dissent in an Indian Campus,” SAMAJ 22(4):1-40, DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6501. 🔗 |
| 2019 | “How Campuses Mediate a Nationwide Upsurge against India’s Communalization. An Account from Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi,” Postscript of the special issue SAMAJ, Student Politics in South Asia 22(4):1-10, DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6516 (with Kristina Garalytė). 🔗 |
| 2018 | “From one Participant Cohort to the Other: Surveying Political Incubation in an Indian University,” India Review 17(3):263-300, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2018.1473319 (with Barış Arı). 🔗 |
| 2018 | “Diversity, Democracy, and Dissent: A Study on Student Politics in JNU,” Economic and Political Weekly 53, Issue 11:3597-06 (with Khaliq Parkar). 🔗 |
| 2016 | “Historicising Student Activism and their Discourses: A Textometric Analysis,” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data-JADT: 311-323, 7–10 June 2016, Nice. ISBN:978-2-7466-9067-7. 🔗 |
Collections edited
| 2023 | Digital Politics in India: A Global Perspective, special section of Global Policy 14(5), 2023 (with Aasim Khan and Ralph Schroeder). 🔗 |
| Fourth quarter 2024 | Student Politics: Movements and Mobilisation in Contemporary India, Orient Blackswan, accepted manuscript, final editing of the introduction underway (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| 2019 | “Student Politics in South Asia,” special issue of SAMAJ 22(4), DOI: 10.4000/samaj.5852 (with Kristina Garalytė). 🔗 |
Book chapters
| 2024 | “On the Meaning of Student Elections: The case of an Indian Campus,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education, edited by Manja Klemenčič, pp.241-26, London: Bloomsbury, 2024. |
| Fourth quarter 2024 | “Student Elections as ‘Educational Festivals’: Electoral Party Identification in an Indian Campus,” in Critical Pedagogy and the Cultures of Learning in India, edited by Suresh Babu and Arunima Naithani, New Delhi: SAGE, accepted chapter manuscript. |
| Fourth quarter 2024 | “Student Politics in India: An Overview,” in Student Politics: Movements and Mobilisation in Contemporary India, edited by Khaliq Parkar and Jean-Thomas Martelli, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, accepted chapter manuscript (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| Fourth quarter 2024 | “Altbach in India: Revisiting Altbach’s Theory of Student Activism in Light of New Research on Contemporary Student Politics,” in Student Politics: Movements and Mobilisation in Contemporary India, edited by Khaliq Parkar and Jean-Thomas Martelli, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, accepted chapter manuscript (with Avarna Ojha). |
Book reviews
| June 2023 | “Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas,” Book review, Books & Ideas / La Vie des Idées, 5 June 2023. |
| January 2019 | “Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World,” Book review, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 27(1):137-138, 30 January, DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2019.1573885. |
Work in progress
| In the Shadow of Saffron India: Student Activism, the Azadi Generation and the Politics of Becoming, book manuscript under review. |
| “Above Politics: Populist Authority as ‘Guruhood’ in Indian Politics,” Politics and Religion, APSA, PRJ-D-22-00007, under review (with Christophe Jaffrelot). 🔗 |
| “Entrer en populisme : Etude biographique d’une carrière populiste comme stratégie d’autonomisation en Inde,” article in preparation. |
| “Au-dessus de la politique : Autorité populiste et l’espace d’énonciation du gourou en Inde contemporaine,” article in preparation. |
| “The Politics of Depression in Hopeless Times: The Case of Anti-establishment Student Activism in Contemporary India,” article in preparation (with Shreyasi Biswas and Mehak Ahmed). |
| “The Surrogate Party: How Consulting Agencies Represent in the Name of the Indian Political Party,” fieldwork underway. |
| “Does Islamophobia drive Engagement? The Case of The Debate on YouTube,” data collection stage (with Vihang Jumle and Vedant Jumle). |
| “Vernacular Hindutva? The Official Discourse of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in English and Hindi, a Comparative Study, 1999-2022,” data collection stage. |
Curatorship
| Nov. 2019 – Jan. 2020 | Curation of the exhibition Memories of Change on the historical legacies of student politics at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Supported by the Fonds d’Alembert, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS80) and the International Centre of Advanced Studies (ICAS:MP). 🔗 |
Dataset creation
| October 2020 – | Database of Indian Political Speeches (DIPS), an archive of speeches, addresses and texts of Indian Prime Ministers, historical figures, administrative documents, religious gurus and parliamentary Q&As (1888 – 2020, ~130 million words). Harvard dataverse DOI: 10.7910/DVN/R59EUT. 🔗 |
| January 2015 – | Pamphlet Repository for Changing Activism (PaRChA), an online platform of digitised prints (+70 000 pamphlets and documents) produced by Indian student organisations. Harvard dataverse DOI: 10.7910/DVN/R59EUT. 🔗 |
| April 2018 | Indian Politics Tweets (IPT), a database of political tweets, including those of political figures (e.g. Modi, +16 000 tweets) and student activists. Harvard dataverse DOI: 10.7910/DVN/CAPZIF. 🔗 |
Development of research tools
| 2021 – 2022 | Pre-alpha development stage of the R package seaglass, a wrapper of five functions for interpretive text analysis optimised for big data. 🔗 |
Public engagement
| April 2022 | “India’s stance on invasion of Ukraine is troubling,” Indian Express, Op-ed Section: 15-16, 22 March 2022 (with Christophe Jaffrelot). 🔗 |
| April 2020 | “The Populist Moment,” Indian Express, Op-ed Section: 16-17, 29 April 2020 (with Christophe Jaffrelot). 🔗 |
| April 2020 | “Popular contra populista: los estudiantes, la improbable oposición en India,” Revista Común, perspectivas: 1-15, 17 April 2020 (translated from English by Annia García). 🔗 |
| January 2020 | “The Public University as a Political Space,” The Ganatantra podcast, Season 2, Episode 19, 22 January 2020 (Interview with Sarayu Natarajan and Alok Prasanna Kumar). 🔗 |
| October 2019 | “Modi II: succès électoral et premières mesures phares,” La revue du Comité Inde des Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France (CCEF), No.2: 12-14, 3 October 2019 (with Julien Levesque). 🔗 |
| August 2017 | “Reading Modi, through his speeches,” Indian Express, Explained Section: 13-14, 15 August 2017 (with Christophe Jaffrelot). 🔗 |
| July 2017 | “Waiting for the liberal Indian enfant terrible,” IAPS Dialogue: The online magazine of the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies: 1-7, 14 July 2017. 🔗 |
| March 2016 | “Republic of JNU,” Tehelka, Volume 13, Issue 8: 7-11, 5 March (with Shafi Rahman). 🔗 |
| March 2016 | “Universités: un monde enchantier Les campus au cœur des luttes sociales,” France Culture, Culturesmonde, 2 March 2016 (Interview with Xavier Martinet). |
Research funding, grants, honours and awards
| 2022 – 2023 | Principal Investigator. Collaborative Research Project: The Languages of Democratic Decline in India. Funders: France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (FSCIS), Stanford University (with Co-PI Thomas Blom Hansen), 2022-2023. Amount: 20,000 USD. 🔗 |
| 2020 – 2021 | Faculty Participant. Research Project: Challenging inequalities: An Indo-European perspective (ANR-18-EQUI-0003). Funders: Agence Française de la Recherche, the Indian Council for Social Sciences Research, the British Economic and Social Research Council and the Research Council of Norway (framework of the Indo-European Research plateform EqUIP). Amount: 175,000 EUR. |
| 2019 – 2020 | Principal Investigator. Research Project: Intermediary Actors of Indian Politics (IAIP). Research partners: CNRS80, D’Alembert Fund (France), ICAS:MP (Germany), King’s College London (UK), Ashoka University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) (with Julien Levesque). Amount: 8,000 EUR. |
| 2018 – 2019 | Visiting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (declined). |
| 2018 | Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) (declined). |
| 2018 | Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) (shortlisted, declined interview). |
| 2017 | Research Grant, National Scientific Research Council (CNRS). Pilot project on populist political narratives in the South Asian context. Project in collaboration with Sciences Po Paris, Ashoka University and the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT Ahmedabad). |
| 2015 | Visiting Grant, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi. |
| 2012 | Excellence Grant, Erasmus Mundus Global Studies (EMGS), Leipzig University. |
Teaching experience
| Spring 2024 | What India Tells us About the World, MA first year, Department of Applied Foreign Languages, University of Lille, Roubaix campus, Spring 2024. |
| Spring 2024 | Democracy in the Digital Age: Case Studies from India, MA first year, Euro-Asia programme in Paris, Sciences Po Paris (English medium, taught jointly with Nicolas Belorgey), Spring 2024. |
| Spring 2024 | Political Representation in South Asia, BA second year, Euro-Asia programme in Le Havre, Sciences Po Paris (English medium), Spring 2024. |
| Monsoon 2021 & 2022 | Course SOC218: Mixed methods in the Social Sciences, BA second year, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, IIIT Delhi. |
| Winter 2021 | Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry: Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis in R, BA and MA students, Institut français de Pondychéry, Social dynamics, labour and health division. |
| Summer 2021 | Summer school workshop: Text mining and archival curation: Computational approaches to the social sciences, B.Tech third year, Computer Science programme, IIIT Hyderabad. |
| Fall 2017 & 2018 | Course CSPO15341: Contemporary Indian Politics, term 2, BA 2nd year, Euro-Asia programme in Le Havre, Sciences Po Paris (English medium, taught jointly with Xavier Houdoy). 🔗 |
| Spring 2016 | Seminar ASPO1130A: Political Science, term 2, BA 1st year, Euro-American programme in Reims, Sciences Po Paris (English medium). 🔗 |
| Fall 2016 | Course CSPO1090A: Indian Democracy: Founding Elements, Evolutions and Challenges, term 1, BA 2nd year, Euro-Asia programme in Le Havre, Sciences Po Paris (English medium, taught jointly with Xavier Houdoy). 🔗 |
| Fall 2016 & 2017 | Seminar ASPO1460A: Understanding International Politics, term 1, BA 2nd year, tutorial seminar, Euro-American programme in Reims, Sciences Po Paris (English medium). 🔗 |
| Fall 2015 | Ethnography section of the module: Applied Research Methods 7YYI0018, term 1, MRes and MA in “Contemporary India,” King’s India Institute, King’s College London. 🔗 |
Supervision
| October 2020 | Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Analysing the Online Political Battlefield in India, Master thesis: 1-86, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 14 October 2020 (with Radhika Krishnan). |
| September 2020 | Political Professsionalisation and Populist Trajectories in Contemporary India, Master thesis: 1-140, EHESS, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 4 September 2020 (with Loraine Kennedy). |
Select conferences and seminars
| April 2024 | “Style matters: Narendra Modi’s populist discourse and Indian democracy,” South Asia Institute Lecture Series, 2 April 2024, Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris. |
| September 2023 | “Does Islamophobia drive Engagement? The case of The Debate on YouTube,” APSA Annual Conference, 2 September 2023, Convention Center, Los Angeles. |
| December 2022 | “Populist careers as autonomy-making: a longitudinal ethnography of political entry in North India,” IIAS Lunch Lecture, 01 December 2023, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden. |
| August 2022 | “The Surrogate Party: Insights into the Vernacularization of an Indian Political Consulting Agency,” CPR-CSH-CSDS Joint Worshop: Democracy beyond elections: A critical survey, 29 August 2022, Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. |
| August 2022 | “Anti-Muslim Ideology as Entertainment Nationalism on Indian TV: The Case of the Debate (2017-2022),” AWL-SSH Annual Symposium on Disruption and Its Discontents: Ethics, Politics, and Epistemology of Disruptive Technology, 19-20 August 2022, IIIT-Delhi, New Delhi. |
| October 2021 | “Computational analysis of Modi’s Twitter and social media uses,” Lecture Series, 13 October 2021, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, Oxford. |
| October 2021 | “Deenbandhu? Populism, commonness and mimesis: a computational study of Indian political speeches,” Authoritarianism and Populism Research Group, 12 October 2021, Global Institutes, King’s College London, London. |
| October 2021 | “The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India,” South Asian Intellectual History Seminar, 11 October 2021, Centre for Intellectual History, University of Oxford, Oxford. |
| September 2021 | “Vers une approche du populisme comme représentation mimétique ? Une étude computationnelle des discours de Narendra Modi,” Democratic Decline Seminar Series, 21 September 2021, Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris (with Christophe Jaffrelot). |
| February 2021 | “Guru ki baat: Representation as connect in Modi’s Maan ki baats,” CSH Seminar and Lecture Series, 1 February 2021, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. |
| July 2020 | “Politicians, Gurus or Technocrats? Insights from Prime Ministers’ Speeches in Contemporary India,” virtual workshop, 17 July 2020, Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University, Sonipat. |
| October 2020 | “Mapping Urban Protest Cultures in India: Campus Spaces as Generational Communities,” guest lecture, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, 28 October 2020, IIIT-D, R&D Block, New Delhi. |
| May 2020 | “Talking Harmony, Spreading Hate: Intertextuality and Populist Mimesis in Narendra Modi Speeches,” Workshop on The Politics of Social Media in South Asia, Oxford Internet Institute, 18 May 2020, University of Oxford, Oxford (cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak). |
| January 2020 | “Student Politics in South Asia: Generational Communities?,” conference: Childhood, Youth, and Identity in South Asia, Shiv Nadar University, 6-7 January 2020, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SoHSS), Noida. |
| November 2019 | “The Politics of our Selves: Left Self-fashioning and the Production of Representative Claims in Everyday Indian Campus Politics,” joint workshop of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) and the Centres de Sciences Humaines (CSH), 29-30 novembre 2019, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. |
| November 2019 | “Discussing MoC: A Conversation with Snigdha Poonam and Anand Kumar,” round table of the exhibition Memories of Change, 11 November 2019, India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi. |
| October 2019 | “The Spillovers of Competition: Value-based Activism and the Democratization of Dissent in an Indian Campus,” conference: Great Transition in India, 10 October 2019, Institute of Indian Studies, HUFS, Seoul. |
| September 2019 | “Populism as Imitation: Theoretical Insights from India,” ECPR General Conference, University of Wrocław, 4 September 2019, Wrocław. |
| August 2019 | “Altbach in India: Revisiting Altbach’s theory of student activism in light of new research on contemporary student politics in the Global South,” CHER 32nd Annual Conference, 30 August 2019, INCHER-Kassel, Kassel (with Thierry Luescher). |
| January 2019 | “‘Aping the People’: A Text Analysis of Populist Mimesis in Narendra Modi Speeches,” seminar series of the NUS South Asian Studies Programme, 25 January 2019, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore |
| November 2018 | “From Resonant to Dissonant: Campus Spaces and the Rejuvenation of Political Narratives at Jawaharlal Nehru University (1964-2018),” SAMAJ seminar, 19-20 November 2018, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), Sciences Po Paris, Paris. |
| October 2018 | “The Metamorphoses of Political Narratives in India: Two Exploratory Case Studies,” CSH Seminar and Lecture Series, Centre of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), New Delhi. |
| October 2018 | “From Resonant to Dissonant: Campus Spaces and the Changing Political Narratives at Jawaharlal Nehru University (1964-2018),” 47th Annual Conference on South Asia at UW-Madison, 11-14 October 2018, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison. |
| August 2018 | “Globalization and its Vernacularisation in Contemporary India,” guest speaker, Global Studies Summer School, 12 August 2018, Felsted International School, Dunmow, United Kingdom. |
| July 2018 | “Junctures and Identities of the Prime Ministerial Discourse in Contemporary India: An Exploratory Textual Analysis (1947-2017),” 2018 Conference of the Association for Asian Stud es (AAS-in-Asia), 5-8 July 2018, Ashoka University, New Delhi. |
| June 2018 | “Achieving Political Representation: The Practice of Biographic Reconfiguration in Leftist Indian Politics,” 43rd Regular Conference of the Korean Society for Indian Studies, 9 June 2018, Tongmyong University, Busan |
| June 2018 | “Unfinished Democratic Upsurges: Mapping Political Rejuvenation and Student Politics in ‘New’ India,” Contemporary Currents and New Research in Indian Politics: Looking Ahead to the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, workshop of the King’s India Institute, 7 June 2018, King’s College London, London. |
| May 2018 | “La mobilisation sur les campus enInde: la gauche face à la question des castes,” Alternative Workshops of the EHESS, 25May 2018, Paris (with Kristina Garalytė). |
| May 2018 | “Contemporary Student Politics in India,” guest lecture (online), 24 May 2018, School of Social Sciences, University of Minnesota, United States (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| December 2017 | “Mapping Contemporary Hindu Right Discourses in India: Exploratory Evidences from Prime Ministerial and Student Activist Lexical Worlds,” Special International Conference, 70 years of Independence: India in Asia, 8-9 December 2017, Seoul National University, Seoul. |
| November 2017 | “Continuities and Legacies in Student Politicisation: the Case of India,” The Contentious Politics of Higher Education: Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism, Conference at COSMOS: The Centre on Social Movement Studies, 15-16 November 2017, Scuola Nazionale Superiore, Florence. |
| June 2017 | “Campus as a Political Sounding Board: Exploring the Changing Language of Welfare and Warfare in Student Politics,” 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC), 26-28 June 2017, Sciences Po Paris. |
| June 2017 | “The Campus as a Site of Politics? Literature Review and Theoretical Considerations,” 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC), 26-28June 2017, Sciences Po Paris (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| June 2017 | “Subculture or Culture Légitime? Niche Institutionalisation of Gender Issues in an Indian Campus,” 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC), 26-28June 2017, Sciences Po Paris (with Caroline Michon). |
| June 2017 | “Islam and Politics in India: An Introductory Overview,” guest lecture, Seoul National University, 8 June, Seoul National University, South Korea. |
| June 2017 | Panel Discussant. “Ideas of India, Past and Present,” 42nd Regular Conference of the Korean Society for Indian Studies, 10 June, Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS), South Korea. |
| April 2017 | “Ascetics in a Secular Uniform? Indian Marxism and the Practice of Declassing in an Elite Campus,” British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference (BASAS), 19-21 April 2017, University of Nottingham. |
| July 2016 | “‘Your PhD is About Me, but you Have Lost Your Subject’: A Note on Political Defection in an Indian University,” 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), 27-30 July 2017, University of Warsaw, Warszawa |
| May 2016 | “La méthode du voyageur : pratiques ethnographiques et pluralisme méthodologique dans l’étude du fait politique sur les campus indiens,” Le Terrain en Sciences Sociales: Nouvelles Pratiques et Nouvelles Limites d’une Pratique en Mutation, 30-31 May 2016,Université Paris VIII, France. |
| April 2016 | “‘The Political Festival’: Electoral Party Identification in an Indian Campus,” British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference (BASAS), 6-8 April 2016, University of Cambridge (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| March 2016 | “Radically Representative: Democratic Inclusiveness and Dissent in the Central University,” guest lecture, 8 March 2016, Symbiosis International University, School for Liberal Arts, Pune (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| June 2015 | “The Broker and the Revolutionary: Initiatory Politics in an Indian Campus,” Noria Graduate Conference on South Asia, 17-19 June 2015, Centre de recherchesinternationales (CERI), Paris. |
| May 2015 | “The Lobbyist and the Revolutionary: Initiatory Politics in an Indian Campus,” 9th European PhD workshop in South Asia Studies, 18-19 May 2015, Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Höllviken. |
| May 2015 | “From Mobilisation to Demobilisation; Life and Death of Political Socialisation in an Indian Campus,” PhD seminar, 6 May 2015, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), New Delhi. |
| March 2015 | “A Three-Level Understanding of Countercultural Political Socialisation in an Indian Campus,” Research Scholars Workshop (RSW), 26-27 March 2015, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi. |
| March 2015 | “Women in Social Movements, the Case of Campus Politics in Delhi,” 17th Workshop for Young Scholars, 9-12 March 2015, Association des Jeunes Etudes Indiennes (AJEI), Banaras Hindu University, Varansasi. |
| July 2014 | “Reborn as Maoist: An Ethnographic Perspective on Radical Youth Activism in an Indian Campus,” 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference, 3-5 July 2014, European Consortium for Political Research, University of Innsbruck. |
| September 2013 | “In the Maoist Incubator: A Review of Youth Radical Activism in Indian Campuses,” 1st Global Conference: Revolt and Revolution, 4-6 November 2013, Inter-Disciplinary.net, Athens. |
| June 2013 | “Forging Political Ethoses With Hammers and Sickles; a Glimpse into JNU Left-wing Activism on Campus,” King’s India Institute Graduate Forum, 6 June 2013, King’s College London, London. |
Service to the profession
| 2018 – 2022 | Coordinator of the CSH Lecture and Seminar Series. The bi-monthly event showcases interdisciplinary scholarship engaging with modern and contemporary South Asia. |
| 2018 – 2022 | Library acquisition commissioner of the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH). |
| 2017 – 2021 | Peer reviewer for the Journal of Communication Inquiry, the Irish Journal of South Asian Studies, the Journal of Historical Sociology, SAMAJ, Modern Asian Studies, Etudes du CERI, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. |
| 2017 – 2018 | Admission reviewer for BA international applicants to Sciences Po Paris. |
| 2015 – 2020 | Editor of the Noria South Asia Publication Programme. |
Co-organised workshops and panels
| September 2023 | “Entrepreneurial Propaganda: Politics of Information in Digital India,” full paper panel at APSA Annual Conference, 2 September 2023, Convention Center, Los Angeles. |
| June 2023 | “Outsourcing Democracy: What does Advisory do to Political Parties and Governance in South Asia?,” symposium of the Centre for South Asia (CSA), Stanford University, 2 June 2023, CSA, Stanford. |
| August 2022 | “Democracy beyond elections: A critical survey,” joint conference of the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), 29 August 2022, CPR, New Delhi (with Laurence Gautier, Rahul Verma and Hilal Ahmed). |
| August 2022 | “Adda: Researching Consultancy Practices,” symposium of the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), 23 August 2022, CSH, New Delhi (with Uttara Purandare). |
| August 2021 | “The Broken Mirror: Making Sense of Indian Politics on Social Media,” joint workshop of the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), 30-31 August 2021, CSH, New Delhi (with Aasim Khan). |
| October 2019 | “From Caste Patriotism to Caste Activism: Caste Associations as Political Intermediaries in India,” joint workshop of the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) and the School of Social Sciences of Jawaharal Nehru University (JNU), 3-4 October 2019, CSH, New Delhi (with Julien Levesque and Surinder Jodhka). |
| April 2019 | “Mediated Campaigns and Unmediated Politics in Millennial India,” joint workshop of the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), 26 April 2019, CSH, Delhi (with Aasim Khan). |
| November 2018 | “South Asia from the lens of Student Politics,” SAMAJ two-day workshop, 8 May 2018, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Sciences Po Paris, Paris(with Kristina Garalytė). |
| October 2018 | “Rejuvenating politics? Student politics and the history of youth’s political selves in South Asia,” 47th Annual Conference on South Asia, University Wisconsin-Madison, Madison (with Laurence Gautier). |
| July 2018 | “Studying Up: Power, Politics, and Practice in Elite Education,” 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), 24-27 July 2018, Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Paris (with Anna Ruddock). |
| July 2018 | “Retrieving the 1950s as a Transitional Moment in India’s Foreign and Domestic Policy,” 2018 Association for Asian Studies (AAS-in-Asia), 5-8 July 2018, Ashoka University, New Delhi (with Raphaëlle Khan). |
| January 2018 | “South Asia Research Workshop 2018,” Noria South Asia Annual Workshop, 24 January 2018, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris (with Charlotte Thomas, Xavier Houdoy and Roma Casamitjana). |
| June 2017 | “Student Politics: Movements and Mobilization in Contemporary India,” 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC), 26–28 June 2017, Sciences Po Paris (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| February 2016 | “Erosion of democracy? Rising Illiberalisms in South Asia and Europe,” panel discussion, 18 February 2016, King’s College London (KII), London (with Aasim Khan and Raphaëlle Khan). |
Professional affiliation
| 2018 – | Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) |
| 2018 – | Association for Asian Studies (AAS) |
| 2015 – | European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) |
| 2015 – | International Political Science Association (IPSA) |
| 2014 – | The British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) |
| 2013 – | European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) |
Academic training
| Summer 2019 | 52nd Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis ⦁ Course: “Quantitative Text Analysis,” Course: “Advanced Methods for Social Media and Textual Data,” Course: “Mathematics for Social Scientists” |
| Summer 2019 | 52nd Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis ⦁ Course 1B: Quantitative Text Analysis, Course 2P: Web Scraping and Data Management. |
| July 2015 | Summer School in Methods and Techniques, European Consortium for Political Research, University of Ljubljana ⦁ Applied Regression. |
| July 2013 | Summer School in Methods and Techniques, European Consortium for Political Research, University of Ljubljana ⦁ Issues in Political, Policy and Organisation Ethnography and Analysing Political Discourse. |
| Summer 2010 | Intensive Course to Research Methodology, Qualitative Focus, NVivo training ⦁ Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam. |
Data science and programming
| Qualitative tools | Working knowledge of NVivo and MAXQDA: preference given to open source software (oTranscribe) and open formats (CSV, LaTeX, Markdown). |
| Quantitative tools | Advanced knowledge of R programmation and its packages ‘Quanteda’, ‘DTM’, ‘FactoMineR’, ‘Igraph’, ‘irlba’, ’caret’, ’random forest’ and ’parallel’ Basic knowledge of Stata and SPSS. |
| Text analysis | Advanced knowledge of TXM (lexicometry) and Iramuteq (cluster and correspondence analysis) ⦁ Working knowledge of Python programmation and its libraries ‘pandas’, ‘numpy’, ‘tensorflow’, and ‘Word2vec’ ⦁ Working knowledge of Mallet (topic modelling) and Stanford CoreNLP (natural language processing) ⦁ Running text-mining computing on Linux (Ubuntu) Virtual Machine environments hosted on Huma-Num and EC2 (AWS) platforms. |
| Webmaster | Advanced knowledge of HTML5/CSS and its implementation in WordPress and Hugo ⦁ Basic knowledge of PHP. Designed and managed the online content of the following research websites on the research platform Hypothèses: The Indian Subcontinent’s Shared Sacred Sites (I-Share), The Social Profile of India’s National and Provincial Elected Representatives, 1919–2019 (LIA SERUIC/SPINTER), Les nouveaux démagogues (LND), Démocratie autoritaire, populisme, affairisme et ethno-nationalisme. |
Language proficiency
| French | Native |
| Italian | Native |
| English | Fluent |
| Hindi | Spoken: Advanced Written: Intermediate |
| Korean | Spoken: Beginner Written: Beginner |
Referees
| PhD Supervisor | Professor Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique(CNRS),[1] Centre de recherches internationales (CERI),[2] Sciences Po Paris, 56 rue Jacob 75006 Paris, France, Email: jaffrelot12@gmail.com, Telephone: +33(0)158717034 |
| PhD Supervisor | Dr Louise Tillin, Professor and director, King’s India Institute, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom, Email: louise.tillin@kcl.ac.uk, Telephone: +44(0)2078487051 |
| PhD Examiner | Dr Andrew Wyatt, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Senate House, Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TH, United Kingdom, Email: A.K.J.Wyatt@bristol.ac.uk, Telephone: +44(0)1179288477 |
| PhD Examiner | Dr Nicolas Jaoul, Research Fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeuxsociaux (IRIS),[3] École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS),[4] 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France Email: jaoul.nicolas@gmail.com, Telephone: +33(0)149542352 |
[1]National Scientific Research Council (France)
[2]The Centre for International Studies and Research
[3]Interdisciplinary Institute of Social Issues
[4]School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences