Siddharth Menon

Position title: PhD

Pronouns: he/him

Email: ssmenon@wisc.edu

Website: Siddharth Menon's website

Address:
Advisor: Stephen Young

WEBSITE

https://sidmenon.com/

 

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

 

AFFILIATIONS

Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies

Center for South Asia

Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE)