Anu K Antony is a researcher whose work focuses primarily on the themes of subjectivity, women’s religious life and labour, everyday religiosity, and post-secular discourses in the context of Indian Christianity. She worked as a visiting faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Tuljapur, India, from September 2022 – April 2023. She recently defended her Ph.D. thesis titled ‘Constituting a Religious Subject: Calling, Prayer and Spiritual Labour among the Syrian Catholic Nuns of Kerala’ from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prior to her Ph.D., she has completed an MPhil dissertation titled ‘Constituting Moralities: The Study of a Catholic Convent School in Kerala’ from the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India. Her research combines archival and ethnographic methods in order to bring out the significance of Catholic monasticism, their institutions and the gendered labour associated with it, in understanding various aspects pertinent to the contemporary Kerala society as well as their history. She has presented papers in several national and international conferences and has published with international peer-reviewed journals. Her areas of research interests include anthropology of Christianity and Catholicism, theories of subjectivity, monastic traditions, minority studies, gender and labour, institutional ethnography, post-secular and post-work discourses and the anthropology of ethics.
