Priyam Sinha

Priyam Sinha is a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW), Humboldt University zu Berlin, specializing in media and cultural studies with a regional focus on contemporary Asia—particularly India. His work bridges ethnographic and arts-based methodologies to examine power dynamics in cultural production.

His core research areas include:

• Disability studies
• Production cultures
• Feminist media studies
• Anthropology of the body
• Social media and Internet studies
• Critical media industry and labour studies
• Diaspora studies

Sinha's doctoral thesis, "Disability in New Bollywood: Mapping Production and Circulation of Affect," received the "Best Thesis 2024-25" award from the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is currently transforming this research into a book analyzing prejudices and precarity in Bollywood's disability representation. His postdoctoral project, funded by the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2025), investigates how editing labor is implicitly gendered as "women's work" within media production cultures.

His notable recognitions include:

• Best Thesis 2024-25 (Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
• Humboldt Research Fellow Award (2025)

Sinha's research is supported by the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship, which enables his current investigation into gendered labor hierarchies in global media industries. His personal website provides further details on his publications and projects.