Nishaant Choksi
Nishaant Choksi
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
- BA: University of Chicago, 2004
- MA: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2009
- PhD: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2014
Email: nishaant.choksi -AT- iitgn.ac.in
Website : http://www.nishaantchoksi.people.iitgn.ac.in/
Office:
4/333 B
VOIP:
2541
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Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (July 2018 to present)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University/Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2016 - 2018)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo University/JSPS (2014 - 2015)
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Selected Publications
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Script as constellation among Munda speakers: the case of Santali. South Asian History and Culture. Special issue on on the politics of writing in South Asia. (2018).
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Expressives in Hindi film song in Journal of Indian Folklore Research 16. [in Japanese, English to appear in forthcoming Nishaant Choksi and Nathan Badenoch, eds. Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area] (2017).
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From language to script: graphic practice and the politics of authority in Santali language media, eastern India. Modern Asian Studies 51(5).(2017).
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Surface politics: scaling multiscriptality in an Indian village market. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 25(1): 1-24.(2015).
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