Malavika Binny

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 Doctorate granted under the guidance of Prof. R.Mahalakshmi and Prof. Pius Malekandathil at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the topic: Bodies, Power and Identities in Premodern Kerala.
 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kannur University
 Recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholarship at The Leiden Institute of History, Leiden University, The Netherlands, under the Erasmus Mundus - IBIES Programme, 2014-2015
 Awarded Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai Young Historian Prize (2017) instituted by the Kerala History Congress at the Third Kerala History Congress for the paper ‘Of Texts and Practice and Also of Discourse and Deviance; An Outline of the Regulation of Bodies in Medieval Kerala’
• Assistant Professor, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Basic Science, SRM University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, 2019-2022
• Faculty Coordinator, Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences, SRM University-AP, 2020-2022.
• Former Assistant Professor , Christ University, Bengaluru, 2016-17
• Assistant Professor (Adhoc), Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University, Jan-April 2018.
• Teaching Assistant for the course 'Ancient Societies' at the Centre for Historical Studies, 2013.
• Guest Lecturer at Bharat Matha College, Ernakulam (Monsoon semester, 2015).
• Presently working on a project to translate Unnuneelisandesham for DC Books, Kottayam.
• Completed an ethno-archaeological survey of Jewish spaces in Kerala,India
• Photo-documentation of Mattancherry (Dutch) palace and Padmanabhapuram Palace, Thakkala, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Archival work at State Archives in Kerala, India, Nationaal Archief , The Hague, Netherlands and The National Museum of Natural History, Paris.

Experience

  • –present
    Researcher , Jawaharlal Nehru University

Education

  • 2013 
    Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.Phil
  • 2011 
    Jawaharlal Nehru University, MA

Publications

  • 2016
    The Investigator, Ayurveda: The Non Man and Embodiment
  • 2016
    Café Dissensus, JNU and Its Tradition(s) of Dissent
  • 2016
    Itinerario:International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Book Review, Shu Jyuan Deiwiks, Bernhard Führer and Therese Geulen, eds. Europe Meets China—China Meets Europe
  • 2015
    Global Histories, Plants,Power and Knowledge; An Exploration of the Imperial Networks and the Circuits of Botanical Knowledge Systems on the Western Coast of India
  • 2015
    Itinerario:International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Book Review, Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester, eds. The East India Company and The Natural World

Grants and Contracts

  • 2016
    Senior Research Fellowship
    Role:
    PhD Scholar
    Funding Source:
    Union Grants Commission, Government of India
  • 2015
    Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellowship
    Role:
    Visiting PhD Scholar
    Funding Source:
    European Union
  • 2011
    Junior Research Fellowship
    Role:
    Research Scholar
    Funding Source:
    Union Grants Commission,India

Professional Memberships

  • Indian History Congress
  • Kerala History Congress
  • IAWAWSA ;International Association of Women Archaeologists Working in South Asia

Contact Malavika for

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  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision