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South Asian Cinema and Culture

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Suraj Yengde
Harvard University Press
2
Balmurli Natrajan
William Paterson University
3
Anilesh Kumar
Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
4
Ambereen Dadabhoy
Harvey Mudd College
5
Gaurav J. Pathania
University of Southern California
6
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
Jahangirnagar University
7
Romany Howarth
Unknown
8
Reena Kukreja
Queen's University
9
Eviane Leidig
Twitter (United States)
10
Wang Changsong
Xiamen University Malaysia

Rising Stars Papers

1
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Modern Language Quarterly|2024
56 cit.
2
Social Media Users’ Engagement with Religious Misinformation: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed-Methods Analysis
Emerging Media|2024
12 cit.
3
Identity and cultural allegory amidst the Chinese new era: Analyzing narrative strategies of the Chinese science fiction film
Cogent Arts and Humanities|2024
8 cit.
4
Primetime narratives on Russia–Ukraine conflict on India's <i>Republic TV</i>
International Communication Gazette|2024
7 cit.
5
Cultural distance perceived by Chinese audiences in the Korean film Silenced: a study of cross-cultural receptions in film content elements
Frontiers in Communication|2024
7 cit.
6
Global Media Sentiments on the Rohingya Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of News Articles from Ten Countries
Journalism and Media|2024
7 cit.
7
'The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India'
CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion|2024
6 cit.
8
Race and caste in the making of US sociology
Current Sociology|2024
5 cit.
9
Patterns and trends of global social media censorship: Insights from 76 countries
International Communication Gazette|2024
5 cit.
10
Undocumented migrant workers as activist citizens: resisting citizenship exclusion through photovoice
Citizenship Studies|2024
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Oishik Sircar
O. P. Jindal Global University
2
Vigneshwaran Muralidaran
École Française d'Extrême-Orient
3
Apalak Khatua
Xavier School of Management
4
Daniel Münster
University of Oslo
5
Sarita Malik
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology
6
Lopita Huq
Population Council
7
Ulka Anjaria
Brandeis University
8
Aasim Khan
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
9
Ana Cristina Mendes
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento
10
Nicholas Barkdull
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Institutional enablers of electric vehicle market: Evidence from 30 countries
Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice|2023
35 cit.
2
Chatbots in customer service within banking and finance: Do chatbots herald the start of an AI revolution in the corporate world?
Computers in Human Behavior|2025
34 cit.
3
The world as a readymade: a conversation with Ai Weiwei
Transnational Screens|2022
7 cit.
4
Wither the plurality of decolonising the curriculum? Safe spaces and identitarian politics in the arts and humanities classroom
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education|2022
7 cit.
5
Screening postcolonial intellectuals: cinematic engagements and postcolonial activism
Transnational Screens|2022
7 cit.
6
Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India
Journal of Family Business Strategy|2022
6 cit.
7
Ownership effects on direction of multinationality: Evidence from Indian EMNEs
Thunderbird International Business Review|2023
6 cit.
8
The internationalization and performance of INVs: Liability or learning advantages of newness?
Journal of International Entrepreneurship|2024
6 cit.
9
Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh
Development Policy Review|2023
5 cit.
10
Documentary re-enactment in Raoul Peck’s <i>Exterminate All the Brutes</i>: countering the work of the imperial camera shutter
Transnational Screens|2022
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Unknown
2
Caroline Osella
University of Sussex
3
Annette Kühn
University of Bern
4
Filippo Osella
University of Sussex
5
Bob Hodge
Western Sydney University
6
Sudipta Kaviraj
University of London
7
Haripriya Narasimhan
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
8
Pradeep Chhibber
University of California, Berkeley
9
Katherine S. Newman
University of Washington
10
Arjun Appadurai
New School

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
International Migration Review|1998
18.2k cit.
2
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Die Philosophin|2003
4.2k cit.
3
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Public Culture|1990
3.9k cit.
4
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Theory Culture & Society|1990
3.6k cit.
5
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics.
MLN|1988
2.9k cit.
6
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
World Literature Today|2000
2.3k cit.
7
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1988
2.2k cit.
8
Selected Subaltern Studies.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1989
2.1k cit.
9
Outside in the Teaching Machine
boundary 2|1996
1.8k cit.
10
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
Public Culture|2000
1.5k cit.

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