Our Team
Mary Ann Chacko
Founder and Lead
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.
Rashmi Kumari
Rashmi Kumari is an Assistant Professor at The Indira Mahindra School of Education, Mahindra University, Hyderabad. She 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.
Sreejith Murali
Associate Editor
Sreejith was part of the founding team of SASEI and has led the effort of putting together the resource library on the website, and is currently part of the core team . As the associate editor, he is part of the editorial team and supports in commissioning them. This role also involves website maintenance, content updating and administration, in addition to handling communications. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. His interests are in educational inequality, middle class making and 20th century history of education.
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.
Simran Luthra
Editor
Simran Luthra holds a PhD in Education from the School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. Her doctoral thesis titled Global Education and Local Context: A Study of International Schools in Pune is a Cultural Political Economy (CPE) analysis of international schools in Pune, exploring aspects such as school choice, teacher experiences and identity, marketing, and a spatial mapping of international schools from an urban studies perspective. A former Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Stanford University (2013-14), Simran has over a decade of experience in the field of education. She currently serves as visiting faculty at Fergusson College, Pune.