Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
📍 4F2 AB1
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Research Area
Labour geography, Feminist geography, Ethnographies of infrastructure, Urban Studies
Research Interests
I have been conducting archival and ethnographic research on border infrastructures, tracing circulations of material, labour and ideas that accompany road construction sites in Lahaul- Spiti and Ladakh. This project documents the history of the Hindustan Tibet Road and attempts to piece together what I call a subaltern travelogue. A travelogue that narrates the journeys of those who travel to build the roads we travel on. Broadly, I study social and spatial relations as they unfold in different geographies. My work draws upon the sub disciplines of feminist geography, labour geography, urban studies and ethnographies of infrastructure. Apart from normative academic publications, I am also interested in exploring art based and collaborative ways of doing and sharing research.
My recent work further investigates assemblages apart from roads (particularly water, sanitation and air quality) that produce the urban in uneven ways. This is collaborative work with interdisciplinary teams where we seek to understand infrastructural geographies of fast growing small towns in Punjab and Himachal.
Since 2021 : Book Forum Editor for the Sage journal Dialogues in Human Geography.
Since 2019 : Editorial Board member for Elsevier journal Geoforum.
Since 2019 : Taylor and Francis journal Geopolitics
Advisory Board for Gender, Feminism, and Geography Book Series.
West Virginia University Press.
2006 - 2009 : Assistant Professor. Department of Geographic and Environmental Sciences. University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
2001 - 2007 : PhD (Dual Title in Geography and Women's Studies), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
MS (Architecture), Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1990 - 1995 : B.Architecture. School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
2017 - 2018 : Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship
2005 : Association of American Geographers Dissertation Research Award
2005 : Society of Women Geographers National Fellowship, United States
Reuben Rose-Redwood, CindyAnn Rose-Redwood, Elia Apostolopoulou, Tyler Blackman, Han Cheng, Anindita Datta, Sharon Dias, Federico Ferretti, Wil Patrick, James Riding and others. Re-imagining the futures of geographical thought and praxis. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2024. Anu Sabhlok. The city and its discontents: Chandigarh’s alternative story. Question of Cities, 2023. Preetika Sharma, Kanchan Gandhi and Anu Sabhlok. Queering utopia: Pride walks in modernist Chandigarh. Urban Studies 60(14):2799–2815, 2023. Kesang Thakur and Anu Sabhlok. Tunnel to the future How the Atal Tunnel is reshaping life in Lahaul. Himal Southasian, 2022. Anu Sabhlok. ‘Walking with the Subalterns’: Infrastructural imaginations and ways of dialogic interpretations and representations. Geoforum 117:71–79, 2020. Anu Sabhlok and Noor Sharma. Expeditions Along the Precipice:Circulations that construct India’s Border Roads. Roadsides 2:88–89, 2019. Anu Sabhlok. Seasonal migration and the working-class laboringbody in India. In Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019, pages 106–116. Anu Sabhlok. ‘Main Bhi to Hindostaan Hoon’: gender and nation-state in India’s Border Roads Organisation. Gender, Place & Culture 24(12):1711–1728, 2017. Anu Sabhlok, Hoiwan Cheung and Yogesh Mishra. Narratives of Health and Well-being. Economic & Political Weekly 50(51):71–76, 2015. Mary Brydon-Miller, Michael Kral, Patricia Maguire, Susan Noffke, Anu Sabhlok, N Denzin and Y Lincoln. Jazz and the banyan tree. Handbook of qualitative research, pages 387–400, 2011. Anu Sabhlok. National identity in relief. Geoforum 41(5):743–751, 2010. Gul Aldikacti Marshall and Anu Sabhlok. ‘Not for the sake of work’: Politico-religious women's spatial negotiations in Turkey and India. In Women's Studies International Forum 32(6). 2009, 406–413. Anu Sabhlok. Integrated Disaster Management: an incentive for interstate cooperation amongst states in India. Man and Development 30(34), 2008.