Dr A. Sharma, Postdoctoral fellow

I am a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the History department at FASoS. I study the evolution of indigenous natural resource – particularly water – commons in the context of colonial and post-colonial state formation, development, and climate change in the Himalaya. My current Marie Curie project (acronym INTERSPECBORD) examines how interspecies politics historically shape the mobility and identities of human and animal bodies in South Asian Himalayan borderlands from the colonial period in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. 

I recieved my MSc in Development Studies at SOAS (2011), University of London, U.K. and my PhD in History from KU Leuven, in Belgium. I recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Flemish research council (FWO) at KU Leuven (2020-24), and the Yale University’s Agrarian Studies research group, in the U.S. (2021-22).