Shalini Randeria#
Copyright: Boris Palefroy
| Membership Number: | 4848 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ceu.edu/about/rector |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since June 2021 President of the Central European University (CEU)
- 2015 - 2021 Rector, Institute for Human Sciences/Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), Vienna
- Since 2017 Director, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Since Sept. 2012 Professor, Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- 2010 - 2015 Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
- 2015 - 2016 Research Director, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- 2014 - 2018 Mercator Fellow, Free University, Berlin (Visiting Professorship as part of the SFB 700 Governance in Spaces of Limited Statehood)
- 2003 - 2012 Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
- 2006 - 2007 Research Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
- 2002 - 2003 Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (CEU), Budapest
- 2001 - 2002 Max Weber Professor (Visiting Professorship), University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Anthropology of globalization and development
- Civil society, social movements and NGOs
- Anthropology of law
- Anthropology of state and public policy
- Multiple modernities and post-coloniality
- Regional Focus: South Asia
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
- 2016 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Applied System
- Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg
- 2016 Associated Fellow, Research Programme “re:work. Work and Lifecycle in Global History”, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2010 – 2011 Fellow, Lichtenbergkolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), University of Göttingen
- 2011 Peter Ustinov Professor, University of Vienna (Visiting Professorship)
- 2008 Visiting Professor, EHESS, Paris
- 2008 Nominated to the Chancellor’s Chair as recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm (declined)
- 1999 - 2001 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin
- 1991 - 1992 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin
- 1982 - 1985 Doctoral Scholarship, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
- 1977 - 1980 First Woman Rhodes-Scholar, University of Oxford
- 1977 Kunda Datar Silver Medal for the Highest Grades MA Sociology, Delhi University
