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Mihir Sharma is a Research Fellow and Research Associate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, working under Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm since October 2017. He is also a Junior Fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School for African Studies (BIGSAS) since 2018. His academic work centers on Epistemologies of the Global South, critically examining knowledge production from non-Western perspectives and challenging Eurocentric academic frameworks.
His educational background includes:
- M.A. in Medical Anthropology from Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (2015)
- B.A. in Anthropology from Connecticut College, U.S.A. (2012)
Sharma's research explores the intersections of social movements, race, and political subjectivity within critical frameworks. He critically examines anti-racism activism, environmentalism, and economic anthropology through decolonial lenses. His work particularly focuses on transnational solidarity movements, bureaucratic violence against migrant communities, and the political subjectivities emerging from marginalized populations. He brings a medical anthropology perspective to understanding health disparities and pandemic responses within structural inequality contexts.
His recent publications demonstrate consistent engagement with contemporary political struggles, particularly around police abolition, migrant rights, and climate justice. Sharma's work bridges academic analysis with activist praxis, often published in left-leaning political journals like Analyse & Kritik and Jacobin. He frequently collaborates with activists and scholars to produce work that directly addresses current social justice issues, showing strong commitment to politically engaged scholarship that refuses the separation of academic inquiry from real-world political struggles.
Sharma maintains an active public presence through Twitter (@mihirzabaan) and engages with broader audiences through interviews and public-facing political commentary. His work represents a growing trend of scholar-activists who challenge traditional academic boundaries while maintaining rigorous anthropological analysis of power structures.
