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Anu K. Antony

Assistant Professor, Gr-I

A-313/9, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

About the Faculty

Anu Kottemkerry Antony is a socio-cultural anthropologist working on the themes of religion, labour, subjectivity, gender, everyday religiosity, agency and freedom, anthropology of ethics, transnational migration, post-work and post-secular discourses. She was awarded the 2023-24 Raghunathan Family Fellowship by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University and continues as an associate of Harvard South Asia Institute for the academic year 2024-25. In 2022, she defended her Ph.D. thesis titled Constituting a Religious Subject: Calling, Prayer and Spiritual Labour among the Syrian Catholic Nuns of Kerala from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She has published in international peer reviewed journals such as HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and Critical Research on Religion and is currently working on her monograph.

List of Publications

Antony, Anu K. 2025. “Being obedient daughters: The imagination of a Catholic family and the Syro-Malabar women’s congregations” In Catholicism, Family, and Asian Societies, edited by Michel Chambon and Ponnaiah, James. University of Pittsburgh Press (forthcoming).

Antony, Anu K & Robinson, Rowena. 2023. “In Correspondence with the ever- expanding Heaven: Subject-formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian Catholic nuns of Kerala.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 13(3). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/728199?journalCode=hau 

Antony, Anu K & Robinson, Rowena. 2023. “Called to God: Event, Narration and Subject Formation in the Vocation of a Catholic nun.” Critical Research on Religion. Vol.11, No. 1 (April). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20503032221148471?journalCode=crra 

Antony, Anu K & Robinson, Rowena. 2023. “Prayer as an actant: Freedom and sociality in the subject formation of a Catholic nun in Kerala, south India.” Social Compass. Vol. 70, No.2 (June). https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/R6HPTYPEGHMPQDGNXQN4/full