Degrees

MA Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)

MA Development, Azim Premji University

BA Economics and Political Science, St. Stephen’s College

Awards

Honorable Mention Visiting Student Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities

and Social Sciences, College of William and Mary, 2023

MA Anthropology and Sociology Best Thesis Award, Geneva Graduate Institute, 2022

Selected Publications

Karippal, Anu. “Back Then It was Culture, Now It Is Animal Torture: Moral-

Phenomenological Milieu of Human-Elephant Entanglements in Kerala,” Graduate Institute

Publications (2023) http://books.openedition.org/iheid/9020

Ellis, Rowan., & Karippal, Anu. “Child-Centered methods for school-based WASH

interventions: co-creating sanitation research and recommendations for and with children,”

Waterlines. 41 no 3 (2023): 1-21

Hurst, Elliot., Ellis, Rowan., & Karippal, Anu. “Lively water infrastructure: Constructed

wetlands in more-than-human waterscapes,” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

(2022): 1-23

Research Interests

Linguistic Anthropology – Interspecies Interactions – Elephants – Multimodality – Theory of

Mind – Morality and Ethics – South Asia