Dr. Thomas Herzmark

Thomas Herzmark is a postdoctoral research fellow at CeMIS. He is a social anthropologist, ethnographer, and educator trained at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), University of Hyderabad (UoH), India, and at the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests are in economic and political anthropology, and social and cultural change in South Asia. Dr Herzmark’s doctoral research was grounded in long-term participatory fieldwork in rural Andhra Pradesh, India, and documented intergenerational experiences of livelihood transition, affirmative action, and recognition. Before joining CeMIS, Dr Herzmark taught anthropology at LSE, at University College London, and at Brunel University London, and worked on a range of research projects analysing redistribution, financialization and precarity; higher education employment; techno-moral governance and the afterlives of colonialism. His first monograph, based on his doctoral work, explores processes of recognition and identification in India and is currently under contract with Berghahn Books.