Akhil Kang

Cornell University, United States

Akhil Kang is a PhD Candidate at the Anthropology department at Cornell University where they are studying upper caste victimhood and woundedness. They are academically and politically invested in shifting the anthropological gaze away from the marginalized and towards the elite. They are an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including critical caste and dalit studies; feminist and queer studies; affect and media studies; biopolitics and postcoloniality. Their project has received support from the Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. They worked as a human rights lawyer in Delhi before pursuing their PhD.

Presentation(s):

• Marginalized Tribal and other "Minority" Communities: Conflict and Resistance II

  Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

• When the Margins study back: studying upper caste victimhood

  Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)