Dr Krupa Rajangam
Visiting Faculty
Teaching
Courses
Education
PhD, Conservation Studies
Profile
As independent researcher and practitioner-academic my focus is socially-engaged humanities. Beyond India, my work experience—including internships, professional, and research roles—spans a range of global locations. Most recent was as a Fulbright Scholar at UPenn, USA. I am Founder-Director of the non-institutional collective, Saythu…Linking People and Heritage, Bengaluru, India.
Research
As social geographer I draw on anthropology and geography to assess all aspects of heritage conservation-management on-ground, whether tangible-intangible, nature-culture, urban-rural. My interest beyond questions of heritage politics is rooted in practice and centered on questions of how and why certain groups and individuals are unintentionally marginalized (spatially, socially, environmentally) from conservation landscapes that are their homes. My professional, research, and teaching interests overlap in advocating for interdisciplinary community-centric pedagogies driven by critical theory. I run a field-school in southern Tamil Nadu where we iterate and refine this approach for a range of learners.