♦ Social-cultural and Political Anthropology
♦ Anthropology of Enlightenment and Reason; Critique and Everyday Life and Death
♦ Islam, Politics, & Muslim Socio-cultural Formations: South Asia, Middle East and the West
♦ Social Theories, Cultural Criticism
♦ Identity, Alterity & Power
♦ Democracy, the Media and Violence
♦ Culture, Religion and Politics of Modern South Asia (especially, postcolonial India)
♦ Nationalism, Transnationalism and Globalization
♦ Religion, the Secular, & Secularization
♦ Intellectual History, Social Movements
♦ Literature, Culture and Society