{"id":11782,"date":"2023-04-03T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=11782"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:04:28","slug":"dr-sanam-roohi","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-sanam-roohi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sanam Roohi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>04\/2023-09\/2023<br \/>\nIncoming International Fellow<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI), Essen, Germany<\/p>\n<p>09\/2020-01\/2023<br \/>\nAlexander von Humboldt (AvH) Postdoctoral Fellow<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany<\/p>\n<p>08\/2020-till date<br \/>\nAssociate editor<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) journal<\/p>\n<p>09\/2018-08\/2020<br \/>\nMarie Curie COFUND Fellow<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany<\/p>\n<p>09\/2016-04\/2018<br \/>\nAssistant Professor <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>St. Joseph&#8217;s University, Bangalore, India<\/p>\n<p>08\/2010-12\/2016<br \/>\nPhD in Anthropology<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (funded by WOTRO under the Provincial\u00a0Globalisation Programme, in collaboration with National Institute of Advanced\u00a0Studies or NIAS, Bangalore, India<\/p>\n<p>08\/2004-05\/2006<br \/>\nM.A. Political Science<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transnational migration-social mobility nexus; Global interconnections and the flow of care resources; Everyday gendered violence under populist regimes; Social media publics and transnational political mobilisation, Pandemic and citizen welfare; STEM educational mobility<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roohi, S. 2023.\u00a0<em>Nammakam, wasta<\/em> and the engineering of differential mobility capital\u00a0between South Asia and the Gulf. <em>Mobilities.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Roohi, S. 2022.\u00a0<em>No one is self-made<\/em>: Evolving narratives and practices of giving and shaping of\u00a0Transnational Kamma caste subjectivities. <em>Ethnography.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Roohi, S. 2020. Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent\u00a0Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh. <em>Journal of<\/em> <em>Contemporary Asia.<\/em> 50:5,\u00a0723-742.<\/li>\n<li>Roohi, S. et. al. (equal author). 2019. Collective Discussion: Piecing Up Feminist Peace\u00a0Research, <em>International Political Sociology<\/em>. 13 <em>(1)<\/em>: \u00a086-107.<\/li>\n<li>Roohi, S. 2018. Efficient Donors, Meritorious Receivers: Professionalizing Transnational\u00a0Philanthropy in Coastal Andhra. <em>Modern Asian Studies<\/em>. 52(1): 214-37.<\/li>\n<li>Roohi, S. 2017.\u00a0Caste, Kinship and the Realization of <em>American Dream<\/em>: Coastal Andhra Migrants\u00a0in the United States. <em>Journal of Ethnic and<\/em> <em>Migration Studies. <\/em><em>43<\/em>(16): 2756-70.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/roohi.curriculum-vitae_april-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extended CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":11975,"template":"","person_category":[288,664,437],"class_list":["post-11782","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni","person_category-cohort-6","person_category-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/11782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=11782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}