Visakh M.S is a PhD scholar in Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He is currently working on his PhD thesis titled ‘Islamic Traditionalism in a Globalizing World: The Study of Sunni Muslim Identity Formation in Contemporary Kerala, South India.’ His research interests include Sociology/Anthropology of religion, Islam, sociological theory and identity politics. He was a visiting Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California Berkeley from August 2016- May 2017.
Lectures:
- Configuring Religious Authority: Embodied Knowledge, Neoliberal Developmentalism and the Place of Ulama in Sunni Muslim Self- Fashioning, Kerala, South India