معرفی
Mudit Trivedi serves as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, specializing in archaeological approaches to religious subjectivity, material culture, and political economy with primary focus on South Asia.
His research program critically examines:
- Archaeology of conversion to Islam through material media analysis
- Ethical relations, hierarchies, and gendered pious praxis in historical contexts
- Secular modern commitments within archaeological methodology
- Disciplinary entanglement with property law and colonial legal infrastructures
- Archaeometric analysis of glass artifacts and craft production
Trivedi's publication trends reveal interdisciplinary synthesis of anthropological theory, archaeological method, and South Asian historical studies. His work consistently challenges liberal frameworks in archaeology while developing new approaches to studying religious conversion through architectural, spatial, and elemental compositional datasets. Key thematic threads connect material culture studies with ethical theory and political economy across medieval and colonial contexts.
He co-directs a long-term archaeological project at Indor, Rajasthan investigating conversion to Islam, and has co-edited a special issue of the Medieval History Journal on 'Archaeologies of the Medieval in South Asia'.
