Siddharth Menon
Position title: PhD
Pronouns: he/him
Email: ssmenon@wisc.edu
Website: Siddharth Menon's website
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Advisor: Stephen Young
WEBSITE
EDUCATION
2018, MA, Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
2018, Graduate Certificate in Development Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
2011, BArch, Architecture, University of Mumbai
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Development Geography, Political Ecology, Urban STS, Architecture/Infrastructure/Construction, India/South/West Asia
TEACHING INTERESTS
International Studies, Development Studies, Urban Studies, Environmental Humanities, South Asian Studies, Architecture, STS, Qualitative Research Methods
CURRENT RESEARCH
My doctoral dissertation project examines the economic, social, and environmental implications of the recent real estate and infrastructure boom in Indian cities by ethnographically studying building construction sites and their translocal connections across wider regional and transnational geographies.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Menon, S. (2024). “Incompleteness.” In The Social Properties of Concrete by Elinoff, E. and
Rubaii, K. (Eds.). San Francisco, CA: Punctum Books.
Rehman, N., Parikh, A., Lamb, Z., Syal, S., Ghertner, D. A., Menon, S., Anwar,
N., Nabi, H., Butt, W., Ranganathan, M., Srinivasan, K., Bhat, H., Powis, A., &
Anand, N. (2023). SOUTH ASIAN URBAN CLIMATES: Towards Pluralistic
Narratives and Expanded Lexicons. International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, 47(4), 667–687. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13173
Menon, S. (2022). “Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in
India”. Antipode, 55(2), pp. 574-598. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12898
Menon, S. (2019). Review of “The Promise of Infrastructure” by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (Eds.). The AAG Review of Books. Vol. 7 (4), p.257-269 10.1080/2325548X.2019.1650554
Menon, S. (2019). Review of “Shiptown: Between Rural and Urban North India” by
Ann Grodzins Gold. Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. 54, Issue No. 13.
https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/13/book-reviews/betwixt-and-between.html
COURSES TAUGHT
Spring 2024, Lecturer, INT ST 620 – International Development in Comparative Perspective
Fall 2023, Lecturer, INT ST 402 – Global Poverty and Inequality
Summer 2021, Lecturer, INT ST 402 – Global Poverty and Inequality
Fall 2020, Teaching Assistant, INT ST 402 – Global Poverty and Inequality
Spring 2020, Teaching Assistant, GEOG 101 – Introduction to Human Geography
Fall 2019, Teaching Assistant, GEOG 101 – Introduction to Human Geography
Spring 2019, Teaching Assistant, INTL ST 101 – Introduction to International Studies
Fall 2018, Teaching Assistant, GEOG 101 – Introduction to Human Geography