Shalini Randeria
CURRICULUM VITAE
Rector, IWM, Institute of Human Sciences/Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen, Vienna (since 1.1.2015)
Research Director, IHEID, The Graduate Institute of International and Development
Studies and Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Geneva
Tel: +43 1 313 58 203 (IWM Vienna); +41 (0) 22 908 62 58 (IHEID Geneva)
E-Mail: randeria@iwm.at (IWM Vienna); shalini.randeria@graduateinstitute.ch (IHEID Geneva)
Fields of specialisation
Anthropology of law: transnationalisation of law; legal pluralism; informal justice/non-state institutions in the area of family law
Anthropology of globalization and development
Anthropology of state and public policy: reproductive rights, population policy and gender, environmental justice, displacement, privatization of common property resources
Civil society, social movements and NGOs
Multiple modernities and post-coloniality Regional Focus: South Asia
Professional Experience and Employment
since Jan. 2015 Rector, Institute of Human Sciences/Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen, Vienna
since Jan. 2015 Research Director, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
since Sept. 2012 Professor, Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
2003 – 2012 Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
since 2010 Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
2014 – 2018 Mercator Fellow (visiting professorship at the Free University, Berlin as part of the SFB 700 Governance in Spaces of Limited Statehood)
2006 – 2007 Research Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
2002 – 2003 Professor and Founding Chair of Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU, Central European University, Budapest
2001 – 2002 Max Weber Professor (Visiting Professorship), University of Munich
2001 – 2003 Member Working group on “Civil society: historical and comparative perspectives”, Social Science Research Centre (WZB) Berlin
1993 – 1999 Assistant Professor of sociology, Free University of Berlin
1986 – 1993 Lecturer in social anthropology and modern Indian languages, Free University of Berlin (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben)
1981-1982 Lecturer in sociology, University of Bombay
1980-1981 Lecturer in sociology, University of Delhi
Education
2002 Habilitation in Sociology and Anthropology, Free University Berlin (“Local Refractions of global governance: legal plurality, international institutions, the post-colonial state and NGOs in India”)
1992 Ph.D. Social Anthropology, Free University of Berlin (“Politics of Exchange and Representation among the Dalits of Gujarat/western India” summa cum laude)
1980 M. Phil. Sociology, Oxford University (with distinction)
1977 M.A. Sociology/Social Anthropology, University of Delhi (with distinction)
1974 B.A. Psychology, University of Delhi (with distinction)
Fellowships and Awards
2010-2011 Fellow, Lichtenbergkolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), University of Göttingen
2011 Peter-Ustinov Professor, University of Vienna (Visiting Professorship)
2008 Visiting Professor, EHESS, Paris
2008 Nominated to the Chancellor’s Chair as recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm (declined)
1999 – 2001 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin
1991 – 1992 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin
1982 – 1985 Doctoral Scholarship, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
1977- 1980 First woman Rhodes-Scholar, University of Oxford
1977 Kunda Datar Silver Medal for the highest grades MA Sociology, Delhi University
Language Skills
English, German, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi (native competence in speaking, reading and writing) Bengali, Urdu (native competence in speaking); French (reading competence)