Mallika Shakya is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University. She works on two distinct themes: (i) social embedding of industrialisation in capital city and border towns, and (ii) poetic imagination of nation and border in Southasia. Her book “Death of an Industry: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her writings have been published in leading academic journals focusing on economic anthropology and South Asian studies. She serves in the editorial committees of three journals, namely, Dialectical Anthropology, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) and Society and Culture in South Asia (SCSA). She periodically appears in mainstream visual and print media in Nepal and India speaking on social inclusion and justice. She is interested in interdisciplinary research methods and has been collaborating with poets and fiction- writers, film-makers and artists, and medical professionals especially in her research on the borders within Southasia.

Research Project (Ongoing)

Anti-Microbial Resistance and Labour Migrant across Health Boundaries in Northern South Asia (2021-2026). With Aarhus University, University of Delhi and BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. Funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) [Grant received 1.5 million Euros; SAU share 120,000 Euros]