Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu is an Associate Professor at the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He was “Fox Fellow (2008-09)” at Yale University and was selected by the India China Institute at the New School, New York as one of the ‘2015 Emerging Scholars’ from India. He was also recipient of the inaugural "Centenary Visiting Fellowship" (nominated award) at SOAS, University of London in 2013. He is a CISLI Fellow with the India China Institute at the New School, New York.