EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociocultural & School of the Environment, Yale University
MPhil, Anthropology and Environment, Yale University
M.A., Department of English, Jadavpur University
B.A., Department of English, Jadavpur University
BIO
Lav Kanoi is a PhD Candidate in the combined Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment PhD program, where his current research centers on urban waterscapes in India. This study calls attention to the sociocultural, historical, political, and environmental aspects of water management in contemporary Indian cities, and draws on the social and natural sciences as well as the environmental humanities. At Yale, Lav has coordinated a number of different research groups and research collectives in Environmental Anthropology as well as South Asian Studies, and he also serves as the graduate coordinator of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program. Lav is a literary translator working across classical and contemporary Indian and European languages, and has published academic and creative translations of texts from Latin to English, and from Bengali and English to Hindi. He is a former Young India Fellow and has previously worked as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, a public-sector education specialist with the Government of Himachal Pradesh, and as a researcher and teacher at Jadavpur and Ashoka Universities. Lav feels strongly about the environment, cities, language(s), and the many different things that go into the making of higher education.
Keywords: Urban ecology; water; postcolonial studies; environmental humanities; development studies; history and literature; language and linguistics; India
RECENT PUBLICATION
Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., Yamada, S., & Dove, M. R. (2022). ‘What is infrastructure? What does it do?’: anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure (s). Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2(1), 012002.
Yamada, S., Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., & Dove, M. R. (2022). Sustainability as a moral discourse: Its shifting meanings, exclusions, and anxieties. Sustainability, 14(5), 3095.