Sidharthan Maunaguru

Sidharthan Maunaguru is an associate professor of tami studies at the University of Toronto (CA). His research focuses on the anthropology of violence, migration, politics, religion, sovereignty, conscience, and future/-s. His work often includes multi-site fieldwork on Sri Lankan Tamil communities and intersects with anthropology, history, and philosophy.

As a senior fellow at the Collegium, Sid worked on a collaborative research project on notions of futures along with the two connected concepts of “uncertainty” and the “unknown.” He aimed to bring together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to think with futures, multiple futures, and politics of futures at the intersection of human and nonhuman.