(Visiting Phd Fellow, September 2026 – present)

BIOGRAPHY:

Anshul Rai Sharma is a PhD Candidate in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research asks how urban resettlement sites are produced as spaces in which rights, civic services and tenurial security are held in indefinite suspension for minoritised groups, especially Dalits and lower-caste Muslims, and how those groups contest that suspension through legal action and everyday practices of inhabitation.

His dissertation fieldwork will pursue these questions through archival and legal research, and ethnography in resettlement sites across Bengaluru and Delhi.

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Publications:

• Sharma, Anshul Rai  “From World City Dreams to Everyday Struggles: Reading Contemporary Bengaluru”, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online], 35-36 | 2026, Online since 15 June 2026, URL: http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/10822; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/16e54
• Sharma, Anshul Rai. Review of Affordable Housing in Charlotte: What One City’s History Tells Us About America’s Pressing Problem, by Tom Hanchett. Southeastern Geographer 66, no. 2 (2026): 184-187. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2026.a991484.
• Sharma, Anshul Rai. 2026. “Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century: Mingwei Huang. Durham, NC, and London, UK: Duke University Press, 2024. Ix and 289 Pp., Maps, Photographs, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliographical References, Index. $28.95 Paper (ISBN 978-1-4780-3103-1); $107.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-1-4780-2679-2); $24.95 Electronic (ISBN 978-1-4780-5999-8).” The AAG Review of Books 14 (3): 31–33. doi:10.1080/2325548X.2026.2628768
• Sharma, Anshul Rai. 2026. “Listening to the Preacher: Martin Luther King Jr. on Collective Morality.” Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine. URL: https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2026/01/15/listening-preacher-martin-luther-king-jr-collective-morality