Our Team
Mary Ann Chacko
Dr Mary Ann Chacko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Her research interests include critical childhood and youth studies, the role of police in schools, gender, citizenship, and qualitative methods, especially ethnography . She has a doctorate in Curriculum Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is the lead at SASEI.
Sreejith Murali
Sreejith Murali is a doctoral candidate at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. His research interests include sociology of education, educational inequality and policy. He is a Research Assistant with SASEI.
Deepti Sreeram
Deepti Sreeram is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University, Sonepat. Her research interests include anthropology of education, critical university studies and quality.
Rashmi Kumari
Rashmi Kumari has a PhD in Childhood Studies from Rutgers University. Her doctoral dissertation titled, Shaping Indigenous Youths as National Subjection: Role of Education in Central India, is an ethnographic study of how developmental interventions especially education mark the lives of Indigenous children and youth in the context of violence. Rashmi analyses the role of education, and digital media in Indigenous youths’ political and cultural movements. Examining the everyday digital cultures among Indigenous youths, her research complicates the discussion around the categories of age, indigeneity, and gender.