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Kalyanakrishnan (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan (Ph.D., Yale 1996) is Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Co-Director, Program in Agrarian Studies; and Chair, South Asian Studies Council, in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. With Professor Michael Dove, he coordinates the combined PhD Program in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Sivaramakrishnan’s research interests span environmental history, political anthropology, cultural geography, development studies, and science studies. He has published widely in the leading journals of all these disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields, with a regional focus on south Asia, especially India.
Over the last fifteen years much of Sivaramakrishnan’s research program has dealt with the colonial and contemporary history and anthropology of forests and wildlife conservation in eastern India. Sivaramakrishnan is the author of Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India (Stanford University Press 1999 & 2002); and the co-editor of Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India (Duke University Press 2000), Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India (Stanford University Press 2003), and Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia (University of Washington Press 2006).
He has also written extensively on political anthropology, environmental history and rural development. Sivaramakrishnan is currently working on several projects including inter-disciplinary study of the Indian state, essays on Indian environmental history, comparative study of postcolonial nature conservation in the tropical world, and new research on law, civil society, and environmental sustainability in India.
Sivaramakrishnan is Associate Editor of Conservation & Society, serves on the Editorial Board of Environment & History, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Peasant Studies. He is currently the Vice-President, and the President-Elect, of the Association for Asian Studies.
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