In Spring 2025, I had the opportunity to teach an upper-level undergraduate course, “How to do Undergraduate Research in International Studies”, in the International Studies Major at UW-Madison. Please find below a brief description and the the syllabus for the course.
I was selected to participate in the sixth Summer Institute in Urban Studies in Brussels, Belgium from July 7-11, 2025. It was jointly organized by the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp), Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Stadsacademie (Ghent University), KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (KU Leuven) and The University of Manchester. Many thanks to the local organizing committee, Dr. Kevin Ward, […]
I had the opportunity to participate in the double panel session titled, “Labor Geographies and the State“, at the Global Conference on Economic Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA on June 6, 2025. Many thanks to the organizers, Dr. Madhumita Dutta (Ohio State), Dr. Siobhán McGrath (Clark), and Eunyeong Song (Clark), for organizing it […]
Reinforcing Infrastructures: Capital, Nature, and the Translocal Relationalities of Urbanizing India
Below is the abstract and link to my PhD dissertation (2025) from the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. I am grateful to my PhD adviser, Prof. Stephen Young (Geography), and my PhD committee members, Prof. Kris Olds (Geography), Prof. Matt Turner (Geography), Prof. Mou Banerji (History), and Prof. Claire Wendland (Anthropology), […]
Out now in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research where I examine how sand extraction from the Western Ghat mountains for elite urban infrastructure projects in south India is re-empowering a historically dominant set of rural upper-caste actors who have now begun to extend their political economic power into cities thus furthering uneven […]
Out now in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space where I discuss how remittances from Dubai-based Indian diasporas are being financialized for elite infrastructure projects in Indian cities thus furthering uneven urban development. Details below: Menon, S. (2025). Dubai diasporas, transnational remittances and intimate infrastructures of finance in India. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 57(6): 719–738. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X251344129 […]
I’m happy to have a chapter in the book, The Social Properties of Concrete, which brings together 40 scholars from across the world to think about how the world’s most ubiquitous material after water – concrete – shapes everyday social life. Many thanks to the editors, Eli Elinoff and Kali Rubaii, for steering this incredible […]
Below is the conference panel that Dr. Andre Ortega and I co-organized at the 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit. Many thanks to Dr. Michelle Buckley for serving as discussant and to the participants for engaging in thoughtful discussions on transnational urbanism in the Global South. Organizers: Siddharth Menon, University of […]
I was selected to participate in the fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Workshop under the theme “New Directions in the Study of the Arab World” at the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. My thanks go to Dr. Erin Pettigrew, Dr. Nathalie Peutz, and Raya Lakova for […]
Siddharth Menon 