PhD Candidate, York University
Contributor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
About Aarushie
Aarushie Sharma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto. She earlier worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hindu College, University of Delhi. Her doctoral research is based on an ethnographic study of sewage work and infrastructure in Delhi, with a particular focus on the politics of caste and contractualization in contemporary India. Her previous work on toilets and sanitation has appeared in Economic & Political Weekly and Conversations in Development Studies. In 2023, she was awarded the International Development Research Centre’s International Doctoral Research Award (IDRC-IDRA). Her areas of interest include anthropology of work, urban infrastructures, and caste, gender, and kinship in South Asia. Alongside her doctoral research, she is interested in the study of ethnographic film. At York Anthropology, she curates Ethnographic Lens, a seminar series on film and multimodality.