Shrey Kapoor has been a senior postdoctoral researcher (Oberassistent) in Modern South Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies since 2025. He completed his PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell University.

His research focuses on urban dispossession and segregation, theories of violence, Hindu nationalism and authoritarianism, and transnational repression.

• Urban dispossession and segregation
• Theories of violence
• Nationalism and authoritarianism
• Transnational repression
• Interdisciplinary and relational methodologies

Bakonyi, J., Giraudo, M. E., Kapoor, S., & Langenohl, A. (2025). Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering. International Political Sociology, 19(3), 1–24.

Weber, R., Kapoor, S., Morell, S., & von Rütte, B. (2025). The Situation of the Tibetan and Uyghur Communities in Switzerland: Actual and Perceived Exertions of Pressure. Research report commissioned by Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) and State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).

Kapoor, S. (2024). Zwischen Ost und West: Indiens geopolitischer Spagat / Entre l'Est et l'Ouest: le grand écart géopolitique de l'Inde. Die Volkswirtschaft / La Vie Économique, September, 20–23.

Kapoor, S. (2023). Resisting a Hegemonic Spatiotemporal Order: Hindu Nationalist Violence and Subterranean Agency in Ahmedabad. In A. Jenss & M. Albrecht (eds.), The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 81–108.

Zinda, J. A., & Kapoor, S. (2019). Metabolic Fractures: How Household Livelihood Practices Differentiate Agricultural Input Use in Southwest China. Journal of Rural Studies, 71, 1–12.