Tag Archives: urban
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), […]
Incompleteness
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 […]
Remittance and Resilience: New Geographies of Transnational Urbanism in the Global South
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 […]
New Directions in the Study of the Arab World
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 […]
“INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE” SYLLABUS
In Spring 2024, I had the opportunity to teach an upper-level undergraduate course, “International Development in Comparative Perspective”, in the International Studies Major at UW-Madison. Please find below a brief description and the the syllabus for the course. While the world has been increasingly shrinking since the advent of globalization in the 1970-80s, the onset […]
Whitbeck Graduate Dissertator Award 2024
I’m happy to have been awarded the Whitbeck Graduate Dissertator Award 2024 from the Department of Geography at UW-Madison to support me through the final stages of writing my PhD dissertation titled, “Infrastructural Entanglements: Money, Mediation, and Materiality in Transnational India”. Ray Hughes Whitbeck, Professor of Geography
Siddharth Menon 