Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

Title

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology
South Asian Studies

Expertise

Urban Studies, Political Anthropology, Political Ecology, citizenship and democracy; South Asia

Degrees

University of California at Santa Cruz, Ph.D.

University of California at Santa Cruz, M.A.

Harvard University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	janjaria@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2221
Office:	Brown Social Science Center, 209

Awards and Honors

Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Fellowship (2009)

Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2007)

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Junior Fellowship for Dissertation Research (2005)

Courses Taught

ANTH	1a	Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies
ANTH	81a	Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Methods and Practice of Anthropological Research
ANTH	129b	Global, Transnational, and Diasporic Communities
ANTH	134a	South Asian Culture and Society
ANTH	151b	Nature, Culture, Power: Anthropology of the Environment
ANTH	158a	Urban Anthropology

Scholarship

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "The Fractured Spaces of Entrepreneurialism in Post-Liberalization India." Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India. Ed. Nandini Gooptu. Routledge, 2013 (forthcoming)

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City." The Slumdog Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Ajay Gehlawat. Anthem Press, 2013. 53-68.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan." by Mathew Hull. American Ethnologist vol. 40 2013: 587-588.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Is There a Culture of the Indian Street?." Seminar. vol. 50 Dérive: Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung. 2013.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Review." Rev. of Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry, by Tejaswini Ganti. American Ethnologist vol. 40 of 1 2013: 228-230.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Colin Mcfarlane, ed. Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Routledge, 2011.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Colin Mcfarlane. "Conceptualising the City in South Asia." Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Ed. Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin Mcfarlane. New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2011. 1-22.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Ordinary States: Everyday Corruption and the Politics of Space in Mumbai." American Ethnologist 38. 1 (2011): 58-72.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "Slumdog Millionaire and Epistemologies of the City." Economic and Political Weekly 45. 24 (2010): 41-46.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Guardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space and Middle Class Activism in Mumbai." City and Community 8. 4 (2009): 391-406.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. "Text, Genre, Society: Hindi Youth Films and Postcolonial Desire." Journal of South Asian Popular Culture 6. 2 (2008): 125-140.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "On Street Life and Urban Disasters: Lessons from the ‘Third World'." What is a City?: Rethinking the urban after Hurricane Katrina.. Ed. Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 186-202.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "The Mall and the Street: Practices of Public Consumption in Mumbai." Lived Experiences of Public Consumption: Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents. Ed. Daniel Thomas Cook. New York: Palgrave, 2008. 203-220.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Bombay to Mumbai: The City in Transition." Rev. of Bombay to Mumbai: The City in Transition, by Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos.. Contributions to Indian Sociology vol. 40 of 3 2006: 407-409.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai." Economic and Political Weekly 41. 21 (2006): 2140-2146.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Urban Calamities: A view from Mumbai." Space and Culture 9. 1 (2006): 80-82.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro and Ulka Anjaria. ""Modernity's Split Subject"." Rev. of Seven Summers; The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus; Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian Modern., by Mulk Raj Ananad. Biblio vol. 10 November-December: 6-7.

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Packaging a Dream." Rev. of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and globalization in contemporary India, by William Mazzarella. Biblio vol. 10 2005: 28-29.