Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan is ‘Bliss Carnochan International Visitor’ at the Stanford Humanities Center
September 25, 2023
We are happy to share that NLS faculty member Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan has been selected as a ‘Bliss Carnochan International Visitor’ at the Stanford Humanities Center. Dr. Manoharan is Assistant Professor, Social Sciences at NLSIU.
About the Residency
The fellowships target scholars whose work is exceptional and of particular interest to departments, research centers, and other academic units on campus, and who fit within the mission of the Humanities Center. The purpose of these month-long residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of Stanford. For the year 2023-24, six academics from across different locations were nominated as International Visitors. Karthick was nominated by the Center for South Asia at Stanford University.
Professor W. Bliss Carnochan was a leading scholar of 18th-century English literature and former director of the Stanford Humanities Center. He was the Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities in the School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S), Emeritus, who passed away in 2022.
During the course of this residency, Karthick will be working on new material relating to certain neglected thinkers in the intellectual history of the Dravidian Movement. “I am very excited about this opportunity to do new work and present the same at such a prestigious institution like Stanford University. Stanford has excellent resources that I hope to make ample use of for my research, which I am sure will also open up newer trajectories. I also look forward to making connections with the people here and fostering future interactions at NLSIU,” said Karthick, ahead of his residency which starts September 25, 2023.
About Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan
Karthick was previously Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton where he worked on the research project “Freedom from Caste: The Political Thought of Periyar E.V. Ramasamy in a Global Context.” He is the author of Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (Orient BlackSwan, 2022), Frantz Fanon: Identity and Resistance (Orient BlackSwan, 2022) and the co-editor of Rethinking Social Justice (Orient BlackSwan, 2020). He received his PhD from the Department of Government, University of Essex.
Read more about his work here.