2015-2016: Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
2013-2014: Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, Hostos Community College, CUNY.
2008- 2010: Graduate Teaching Fellow, Baruch College, CUNY.
2007: Assistant Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, India.
2003- 2006: Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Rajasthan, India.
2002-2003: Commissioned Author for ActionAid Asia, Bangkok, Thailand.
2001- 2002: Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Rajasthan, India.
1998-99: National Campaign for People's Right to Information, India.

2021-22 Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Manchester, UK.
2021-22 with Andrés León Araya, Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant for book workshop on ‘Anthropology of Land,’ USA.
2018-2019. Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
2017-2018. Wenner-Gren Foundation Engaged Anthropology Grant, USA.
2015 Public Policy Scholarship at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, Chennai, India.
2013-14 Writing Across the Curriculum At-Large Fellowship at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
2013-14 Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
2012-13 Center for Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
2012-13 Land Deals Politics Initiative Small Grant, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
2011-12 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, USA.
2011-12 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, USA.
2009 CUNY Graduate Center Summer Pre-dissertation Research Grant, USA.
2007-12 Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.
2004 Independent Research Fellow, Sarai, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Books:

Book Chapters:

2022. ‘Dholera: The Emperor’s New City.’ In Kennedy, L. and A. Sood (eds.) India's Greenfield Urban Future. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited.
2020. ‘Make in India: Hindu Nationalism, Global Capital and “Jobless Growth.”’ In Maskovsky, J. and S. Bjork-James (eds.) Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.
2019. ‘Land-grabs and Dispossession in India: The Laws of Value.’ In Cullet, P. and S. Koonan (eds.) Research Handbook on Environment, Law and Poverty. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2018. 'India's Land Impasse: Infrastructure, Resistance and Rent.' Lawson, V. and S. Elwoood (eds.). Relational Poverty Politics: Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
2017. ‘Infrastructures of Growth, Corridors of Power: The Making of the Special Economic Zones Act 2005.’ Political Economy of Contemporary India. In Motiram, S. and R. Nagaraj (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2005. with Nikhil Dey. ‘Bare Acts and Collective Explorations: The MKSS Experience with the Right to Information.’ Sarai Reader 2005. Sarai: Delhi.

Research Papers:

2016. With Simi Sunny. 'Land-pooling for Dholera Smart City.' Socio-Legal Review. 12 (2): 1-17.
2016. 'Dholera: The Emperor's New City.' Economic and Political Weekly. 51(17): 59- 67.
2016. 'India's Land Impasse.' SEMINAR. 682: 48-52.
2015. ‘The Goan Impasse: Land Rights and Resistance to SEZs in Goa.’ Journal of Peasant Studies. 42(3): 765-90.
2013. ‘The Goan Impasse: Land Rights and Resistance to SEZs in Goa.’ LDPI Working Paper Series. Available at http://www.iss.nl/research/networks_and_projects/land_deal_politics_ldpi/
2013. ‘Limits to Absolute Power: Eminent Domain and the Right to Land in India.’ Economic and Political Weekly. 48(19): 40-52.
2012. With Sujith Koonan. ‘Delhi Water Supply Reforms: Public-Private Partnerships or Privatisation?’ Economic and Political Weekly. 47(17): 32-9.
2010. ‘Special Economic Zones in India: Reconfiguring Displacement in a Neoliberal Order?’ City and Society. 22(2): 166-82.
2008. ‘Special Economic Zones in India.’ Economic and Political Weekly. 43(28): 25- 9.
2007. ‘‘Swa’-jal-dhara or ‘Pay’-jal-dhara—Sector Reform and the Right to Drinking Water in Rajasthan and Maharashtra.’ Law, Environment and Development Journal. 3(2): 103-25.
2007. ‘Swajaldhara or “Pay”-jal-dhara: Right to Drinking Water in Rajasthan.’ Economic and Political Weekly. 42(52): 102-10.
2007. ‘In Search of the ‘Un’common Woman in Laxman’s Cartoons.’ Economic and Political Weekly. 42(6): 484-6.

Book Reviews:

2020. [Review of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, by M. Finkelstein]. American Ethnologist. DOI: 10.1111/amet.12952]
2018. [Review of On Pauperism in Present and Past, by J. Breman]. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 52(1): 102-105.
2014. ‘On the Land Question in 21st Century India.’ [Review of The Price of Land: Acquisition Conflict Consequence, by S. Chakravorty]. Economic and Political Weekly. 49(10): 30-3.

Reports:

2015. Dholera Smart City: Urban Infrastructure or Rentier Growth? Policy Report No. 13. Chennai: The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy.
2001. with Vimal Bhai. Testimonies from the Ground: A Report on the Tehri Dam. Delhi: South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and People.
1998. with S. Parasuraman et. al. Socio-Economic Effects of the Maheshwar Hydro- Electric Project on River Narmada. Mumbai: TISS.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles:

2022. ‘Protests Over Land Mount Against Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway.’ The Wire. February 5.
2017. 'This Land is Their Land.' The Hindu. January 31.
2015. Why Dholera's Farmers are Resisting Giving Up Their Land for a Shining, Smart City.' The Wire. December 18.
2015. ‘Revisiting the SEZ Story.’ The Hindu Businessline Ink. April 11.
2015. ‘Growth for few, Loss for Many.’ The Hindu. March 28.
2015. ‘Kiske Aayenge Acche Din? [Good Days for Whom?]’ Rashtriya Sahara Hastkshep. February 28.
2013. ‘A Historic Act Replaced.’ Yojana. November.
2008. ‘The Discourse on Displacement and Development.’ Newsletter of the Society for Applied Anthropology. 19(3): 14-5.

Faculty Profile

Dr. Preeti Sampat