Thanuja Mummidi is currently Centre Head (i/c) at the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University where she joined in September 2009. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Madras and was later awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Royal Anthropological Institute, U.K. and carried out her research at Durham University. She collaborated with the Rural Employment and Microfinance (RUME) programme of the French Institute of Pondicherry. She has coordinated projects funded by the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, UCl, Irvine; British Library, and UGC. She was recently invited as DAAD Guest Professor by University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Commons and Food Sovereignty- Interface of Economic and Ecological Anthropology; Scheduled Tribes- Issues of rights and development policy; Social Exclusion, Human Rights and Inclusive Policy