Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Anthropology

Biography:
B.A., Harvard University;M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. Areas of interest include politics of public space in Mumbai; development, consumerism, and postcoloniality in modern India. Recipient, Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007–08); many other grants and fellowships. Has taught anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, Stanford University, Smith College. Contributor to Lived Experiences of Public Consumption: Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina (University of Georgia Press, 2008). (2009– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.