Aditi completed her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her thesis examined the endurance of trade and commerce amidst political indeterminacy and military occupation in Kashmir. Combining ethnographic and archival work, her research focuses on the relationship between commerce and sovereignty in the northern and eastern highland frontiers of South Asia as manifested in trade networks, the history of economic regulation, patterns of mobility, and material practices of exchange.

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Academic Biography

since 2019: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
2016–2019: Postdoctoral Fellow ERC Starting Grant Project: Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.
2008–2016: Doctoral Studies, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
2004–2006: Masters in Sociology, University of Delhi.
2001–2004: Bachelors (Hons) in English, University of Delhi.

Awards and Grants

2014: Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University.
2012: Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.
2011: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship.
2007: Sarai Independent Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
2006: Gold Medal for Highest Marks in the MA examination in Sociology, Delhi University.
2004: Muriel Wasi Award for first position in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, for English (Hons).

Professional Appointments

2007–2008: Research Associate, National Knowledge Commission, Government of India.
Spring 2007: Visiting Instructor for “Gender & Society”, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College, Delhi University.

Contact:
Highland Asia Research Group
LMU, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich, Germany
martin.saxer@lmu.de | +49 89 2180 9639

Aditi Saraf

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