Professor Alpa Shah

Professor of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology, LSE

Professor Alpa Shah is Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at LSE.  She also leads a research theme at the LSE International Inequalities Institute on "Global Economies of Care".

Her book, Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas, was winner of the 2020 Association of Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize, shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the New India Foundation Book Prize. It was also a 2018 Book of the Year for the New Statesman, History Workshop, Scroll India, a Hindu Year in Review Book, a Hong Kong Free Press Best Human Rights Book and a Public Anthropologist Must Read.

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