Who are We?

Ethnographic Marginalia is founded and managed by Sneha Annavarapu and Alex Diamond.

Sneha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at National University of Singapore. An urban ethnographer by training, Sneha’s wide-ranging research interests center around urbanization, governance, class relations, and gender in contemporary India. In her research, she has examined state-citizen relations through the lens of road safety; the politics of women’s safety in taxicabs in Hyderabad; the historical evolution of middle-class attitudes towards public kissing in Mumbai; how ideologies of good citizenship are embodied in gendered consumption practices at wellness centers in Chennai. Sneha has published articles in academic journals such as Social Change, Social Problems, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Journal of Consumer Culture and teaches in the areas of feminist geography, transnational urbanisms, sociological theory, and qualitative sociology.

Alex is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. His ethnographic research follows the implementation of Colombia’s landmark peace deal, analyzing how the rural village of Briceño has experienced a broader regional transition driven by related processes of state formation, the development of mining and energy megaprojects, and a coca substitution program. Alex has published academic articles in Social Problems and Qualitative Sociology, as well as a number of publicly available pieces in Contexts, the North American Congress on Latin America, Jacobin, El Espectador, and Colombia Reports. He also seeks to incorporate audiovisual work into his research in the form of photography and an in-production documentary film titled “An Uncomfortable Peace.”