THANGLIENMANG HAOKIP

Dedicated and innovative teacher with a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and facilitating students growth. Seeking a faculty position in a reputed institute, where I can contribute my expertise and engage in cutting-edge research.

• Donald J. Hughes Graduate Research Fellowship, American Society for Environmental History, 01/2022 - 12/2022, Swidden transformations in Manipur: Its causes and consequences on the environment, Completed
• Atlas Research Travel Grant, IIT Gandhinagar, 12/14/2022
• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, IIT Gandhinagar, 08/2022 - 12/2022, Tutored students of the course ‘FP-602 Writing’
• Institute Fellowship, IIT Gandhinagar, 07/2018 - 07/2023, To pursue PhD at the institute

• 47th Indian Sociological Conference, 12/20/2022 - 12/22/2022, Thinglhang lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India
• 13th Asian Conference on the Social Sciences, 06/02/2022 - 06/04/2022, Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Swidden Farmers: Evidence from the Kukis of Northeast India
• Young Scholar Conference, 02/18/2019 - 02/19/2019, The Governmentality of Shifting Cultivation in India and the Northeast

• Human-Animal Relations at the ‘Margins’: A Quest for Social Justice, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 08/17/2021 - 08/20/2021
• Research Workshop for SC/ST Scholars, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), 07/13/2020 - 07/28/2020
• The People and the Principles Behind Nature – the What, the Why, and the How (Webinar), Springer Nature, 06/18/2020
• Trends in Publishing (Webinar), Springer Nature, 06/16/2020
• Social Science Research Methods for Conservation Biologists, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 10/09/2019 - 10/15/2019

• What is swidden farming?, IIT Gandhinagar, 01/25/2024
• Reviewing the Forest Rights Act 2006, IIT Gandhinagar, 02/27/2023
• My experience with ethnographic fieldwork, IIT Gandhinagar, 09/02/2022

• Agrarian/swidden studies
• Indigenous knowledge and practices
• State, environment and indigenous people
• Northeast studies
• Community development
• Tribal studies

• Haokip, T. & Aiyadurai, A., Thinglhang lou: Linkages between swidden, culture and ecology in Manipur, Northeast India, Journal of Ethnobiology, 43, 4, 386-393, https://doi.org/10.1177/02780771231211381
• Haokip, T., Infrastructural injustice and swidden cultivation in northeast India, Journal of Peasant Studies, Under Review

• Prof. Mini Bhattacharyya Thakur, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Gauhati University, mbthakuranth@gauhati.ac.in
• Prof. Aashish Xaxa, Assistant Professor, Dept. of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar, aashish.xaxa@iitgn.ac.in
• Prof. Ambika Aiyadurai, Associate Professor, Dept. of HSS, IIT Gandhinagar, a.ambika@iitgn.ac.in