Sidharthan Maunaguru

Sidharthan Maunaguru is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Chair of Tamil Studies at Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC. He has a graduate appointment with Department of Anthropology at the St. George Campus. His research focuses on anthropology of war, violence, migration, politics, religion, sovereignty, conscience, ethics and future/s. Sidharthan has worked and held fellowships at University of Edinburgh, Johns Hopkins University, Collegium Helveticum, ETH, University of Zurich and National University of Singapore. He has published in number of peer-reviewed journals including Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Modern Asian Studies, and Comparative Studies on Society and History. He is the author of Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War. Sidharthan is currently working on the notions of futures along with the two connected concepts of uncertainty and unknown. His work often includes multi-site fieldwork on Tamil communities and intersects with anthropology, history, and philosophy.