Alpa Shah

Short Biography

Alpa Shah is an anthropologist of India whose research explores the anthropology of the state, politics and revolutionary movements; democracy, development and environment; as well as indigeneity, indigenous rights and migration. She has authored papers in some of these areas for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Critique of Anthropology and Contributions to Indian Sociology. She is currently writing a monograph on indigenous politics in Jharkhand, India for which she has been awarded a Wenner Gren Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Fellowship. Before coming to Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she currently teaches, she received generous funding from the Economic and Social Research Council for doctoral and postdoctoral work. She holds a B.A. (Hons) degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge (1994–97), an M.Sc. (1998) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (1999–2003) from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, University of London.