Mihir Sharma, M.A.


Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Academic Career
- since 2018: Junior Fellow, Bayreuth International Graduate School for African Studies (BIGSAS)
- since Oct. 2017: Research associate in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm, University of Bayreuth)
- Nov. 2016 - Sep. 2017: Member and Doctoral Student, Anthropology of Global Inequalities with Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2015: M.A. Medical Anthropology, 2015, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- 2012: B.A. Anthropology, Connecticut College, U.S.A.
Work experience
- Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2016: Teacher for social and cultural anthropology, English language and literatures, and theory of knowledge, UWC Robert Bosch College, Freiburg, Germany

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research areas
- Regions
Germany, U.S.A. - Topics of interest
social movements, race, anti-racism, activism, political subjectivity, critical medical anthropology, environmentalism, economic anthropology

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Publications
2020
Randall, Clark; Sharma, Mihir
Cori Bush: “I’m Coming With the Whole Activist Community, Not Just By Myself”
in Jacobin (2020) issue 8
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/cori-bush-misso ...
Sharma, Mihir; Randall, Clark
St. Louis’s Shameful Workhouse Jail Must Be Shut Down
in Jacobin (2020) issue 7
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/close-workhouse-st- ...
2020
Sharma, Mihir; Liebelt, Claudia
Cultures of Hygiene : Interview with Claudia Liebelt
in Allegra Lab : Anthropology for Radical Optimism
24. Juni 2020
https://allegralaboratory.net/cultures-of-hygiene- ...
2020
Sharma, Mihir
Die notwendige Abschaffung der Polizei
Analyse & Kritik : Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis
in Analyse & Kritik : Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis. (15. Juni 2020)
https://www.akweb.de/ausgaben/661/die-notwendige-a ...
2019
Sharma, Mihir
An open letter on the unthought contradictions of doing climate activism
in Stillpoint Magazine (2019) issue 3
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/an-open-letter- ...

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Mihir Sharma, M.A.
research associate
University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II
Room: 00.21
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
Twitter: @mihirzabaan
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4120
E-mail: mihir.sharma@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Anthropology | Universität Bayreuth