P. Arun currently works as an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was an India Fellow (2025) at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–25) at the Moturi Satyanarayana Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Krea University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Delhi, where his doctoral research examined the history of telegraph and telephone surveillance in liberal democracies—specifically India, Britain, and the United States. His research interests are surveillance studies, democracy, constitutionalism, and the rights of individuals in relation to the state. He is recipient of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) Small Research Grant (2023-2024) for the project titled “Welfare Surveillance in India’s Rural Employment Programme.” He serves as the Board Member of the Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network, which seeks to broaden the scope of surveillance studies by incorporating non-Western discourses and practices.
Current Projects:
Working on a monograph on communications surveillance in liberal democracies.
Recent Publications:
3. “Communications Siege.” In Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary, edited by Nathalie Fridzema and Anya Shchetvina, 8–9. Network Notions 7. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2026.
2. “Colonial Surveillance Mechanisms: Past and Present.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2026. (co-authored with Midori Ogasawara, Smith Oduro-Marfo, Sahr Malalla, and Mohammad Hossein Badamchi).
1. “Right to Work, Dignity and Welfare Surveillance in India’s Rural Employment Programme.” In Policy and Politics of Development in India, edited by Suthar, S.K. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2026. (Co-authored by Syed Asif Ali Zaidi)
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