Research Interests

• Anthropology of Work
• Anthropology of Body and Gender
• Medical Anthropology

  Office Location

• Room no – 339A
• E-mail: mathangi[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
• Phone : +91 (44) 2257 4530

 Book

• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi (2018) 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

 Journal Publications

• Mani, V., & Krishnamurthy, M. (2021). The Work of Sporting Bodies: Football and Masculinity in North Kerala. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 7(1), 147-169.
• Coelho, Karen and Mathangi Krishnamurthy. (2020). The Habitus of Agglomeration: Crowding and (Non)Compliance in an Indian City. Anthropology Now; 12(2); 26-38.
• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. (2020). Navigating the Body Multiple: Biomedicine, Genetics and Sex/Gender in the Lives of CAH Patients. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (2020) 14:1–14.
• Mani, Veena and Mathangi Krishnamurthy. (2018) Making a Locality: The Politics of Land and Football in North Kerala. Leisure Studies; 37 (6); pp.721-734
• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. (2005). Rebels or Resources: A Study of Identity Management in Indian Call Centers. Anthropology of Work Review; 25 (3-4), pp. 9-18.

 Essays in Edited Volumes

• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. 2018. How to do things with Bits and Bytes. In Silicon Plateau Vol.2; (eds.) Ghidini, M., Kelton, T. pp.53-64. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
• Mani, V. and Krishnamurthy, M. (2016), “Sociology of Sport: India”, Sociology of Sport: A Global Subdiscipline in Review (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476- 285420160000009003
• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. 2011. Furtive tongues: Examining the language politics of Indian call center workers. In Chutnefying English: The Cultural Politics of Hinglish; (eds.) Snell, Rupert and Rita Kothari; pp. 82-97. Penguin: India.

Invited Publications

• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. (2018). Do Poor Women Love Differently? (Commentary). Current Anthropology; 59(5), pp.563-64.
• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi (2018) 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. (2009) 1-800 Worlds: Embodiment and Experience in the Indian Call Center Economy. In Section News, Society for the Anthropology of Work, Angela Jancius (ed.). Anthropology News; 50(5), pp.55-56.
• Krishnamurthy, Mathangi. (2005). Outsourced Identities: The Fragmentations of the Cross-Border Economy. SAGAR: A South Asia Graduate Research Journal (Now, A South Asia Research Journal); 14., pp.23-38.

Book Reviews

• “We Looked for Scientists…”. Nanoscale: Society’s deep impact on science, technology and innovation in India. Sekhsaria, Pankaj. AuthorsUpFront. Dialogue: Sciences, Scientists, and Society; 2 December 2020.
• Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global. Aneesh, A. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Anthropological Quarterly, Summer 2016, 89(3), pp.981-985.
• Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class. Radhakrishnan, Smitha. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. Anthropology of Work Review, September 2011, 32(2), pp. 117-119.
• Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experience. Narayan, Anjana and Bandana Purkayastha (eds.).Virginia: Kumarian Press, 2009. Journal of South Asian Diaspora, September 2009, 1(2), pp. 193-95.
• Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry. Biao, Xiang. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. American Ethnologist, August 2008, 35(3), pp. 3017-3021.
• The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City. Wilson, Ara. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Anthropology of Work Review, Fall 2005; 26(2), pp. 38-40.

Non-fiction and Popular Press

• Culture Mulch: A monthly anthropology and popular culture column; The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
• Is a brick art? Is the brickmaker an artist? The Hindu, May 5, 2018; Chennai.
• The Pleasures of Misrecognition. 3 Quarks Daily, Mar 19, 2018.
• I Want to Make Friendship With You. 3 Quarks Daily, Dec 19, 2016.
• On Sepulchral Culture. 3 Quarks Daily, Jan 18, 2016.
• An Anthropologist among Sartorialists. 3 Quarks Daily, Nov 24, 2014.

• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology
• Society for the Anthropology of Work
• Society for Feminist Anthropology
• Centre for Technology and Policy (CTaP), IIT Madras

• WLI Initiative Grant 2021 Project Title: A Gender Audit of IIT Madras
• Exploratory Research Proposal Grant 2019 Project Title: Rasayani: An Ethnography of Industrial Subjectivity
• Young Faculty Research Award 2016 IIT Madras
• Wellcome Trust Small Grant 2013 Project Title: Future Bodies: The Politics and Ethics of Diagnostic Testing and Genetic Engineering in India.
• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010 Project: World Citizenship
• University Endowed Dissertation Writing Fellowship 2008 Writing Grant to support Doctoral Research
• American Association of University Women International Dissertation Fellowship 2007 Fieldwork support for doctoral research
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant 2006 Fieldwork support for doctoral research

Invited Lectures/ Presentations

• Engendering the Body: A Broad Review of the Body in Feminist Theory. Musings on the Body; Aug 13-14, 2020, Dept. of English; Assam University, Silchar.
• John and Jane and their Ethnographic Counterparts. Seminar at KREA University; November 21, 2019.
• The Ethnographic Turn in Indian Contemporary Art. RE-LOOK (43) – Lectures on Indian Art, 1Shanthi Road; curated by Pushpamala; November 11, 2019; Bengaluru.
• Sexing the Body Multiple: CAH and the Category of Intersex; ‘The Performing Body’; Feb 1-2, 2019; IIT Hyderabad.
• 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy; Depts. Of Anthropology, Sociology and Business and Economics; The International Studies Program; Southwestern University; November 29, 2018.
• Navigating the Body Multiple; Seminar talk at The University of Texas at Austin; November 26, 2018
• 2017. Social Dimensions of Technology Transitions; Tandem Research – Policy Lab 03 for a workshop entitled “The Future of Work in India: Technology Foresight Group”; September 2017.
• 2017. Fixing Unruly Bodies: Practising Care for CAH patients, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, for a workshop entitled, “Framing Technology and Care in Asian Contexts”, May 2017.
• Keynote Address: Working through Gender: A Performance in Three Acts. Social Issues in Global India; Nov 16-17, 2017, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities.
• 2017. Water-Worlds: Image and Representation in the Chennai floods of 2015,The University of Texas at Austin, and The Center for International and Regional Studies/Georgetown-Doha, for a workshop entitled, “Climate Vulnerability in South Asia’s Coastal Cities”, January 2017
• 2013. 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the New Indian Middle-Classes; Seminar at the Centre for South Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh, June 2013.
• New Technologies, Old Divides: The political economy of technology and outsourcing; September 25, 2008; CSL Colloquium, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Paper Presentations

• The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Embodiment, Figuration and Experience; Association of Asian Studies (AAS)-in-Asia Annual Conference, July 1-4, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Ethnographic Attunements; Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 15-19, 2018, New Orleans, LA
• How to do things with Bits and Bytes; Media Morphologies: Infrastructures and Technologies in Art, Cinema and Popular Culture, September 1-2 2011, De Nieuwe Oogst Rotterdam
• The Management of Sleep; Association for Asian Studies and International Convention for Asia Scholars Joint Conference, March 31-April 3, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Waking Life/Working Life: The Sleepless Subjects of the Indian Call Center; Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 17-21, 2010, New Orleans, LA

Ongoing Research and Ethnographic Consultancy and Workshops Select clients

• ABC Heinz
• Okapi
• IKEA
• Third Eye Design