Lisa Mitchell
Background
Lisa Mitchell is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of South Asian History and Anthropology in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores language politics, public space, mass democracy, political assembly, and the history of infrastructure and mobility in modern South Asia. She is the author of Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue and Hailing the State: Collective Action, the Pedagogy of Power, and Police in In
Address:
Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 820 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Occupation:
• Professor of South Asian History and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
• Associate Professor, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
Qualification:
• Ph.D. in Teaching and Curriculum / Anthropology: Columbia University
• M.A. in Asian Studies: University of Wisconsin–Madison
• B.A. in History and South Asian Studies: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Lisa Mitchell is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of South Asian History and Anthropology in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores language politics, public space, mass democracy, political assembly, and the history of infrastructure and mobility in modern South Asia. She is the author of Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue and Hailing the State: Collective Action, the Pedagogy of Power, and Police in India.