Souvanik Mullick

Souvanik Mullick is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and Humanities, Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology (Yale University, 2023) and law degrees from the University of Michigan Law School (LL.M, 2013) and West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (BA LL.B, 2010).

His research focuses on state, law, cities, labor, and politics, with a particular emphasis on how working-class engagement shapes democratic processes in South Asian urban contexts. Current projects include a book manuscript analyzing small transport operators in Delhi, exploring their role in sustaining democracy through legal and political negotiations.

Recent work includes an article in Anthropology of Work Review (2023), examining transport workers as democratic actors. Funded by the NSF, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and Yale Macmillan Center, his research bridges anthropology, law, and urban studies.

Prior to Princeton, he held a fellowship at Gottingen University (2023-2024), collaborating with the International Center for Advanced Studies consortium.