
Carol Upadhya, a social anthropologist, has researched and published widely on a range of social transformations related to development, economic change, urbanization, provincial capital, labour and migration in contemporary India.
Prof. Upadhya was Co-director of the Provincial Globalisation and Speculative Urbanism projects at NIAS. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation (USA), Azim Premji Foundation, Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), WOTRO Science for Global Development of the NWO (Netherlands), and the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development (Netherlands).
She has been a visiting scholar at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden; Central European University, Budapest; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany; and the International Institute of Asian Studies, Amsterdam.
Professor Upadhya’s latest publication is a co-edited volume (with Vinay Gidwani and Michael Goldman), Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). She is the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (Routledge, 2018).
Upadhya is Co-editor of the Journal of South Asian Development and serves on the Editorial Board for Contributions to Indian Sociology.