Meet our global team

For Digital Dignity, Project ONLINERPOL is run by a core team of researchers at LMU Munich headed by Principal Investigator Sahana Udupa. We work with a global network of cooperation partners and collaborators and receive invaluable guidance from our advisory board. We are working on a number of projects. Resources are continuously added here as our research develops. You can also listen to our podcast, entitled 'Online Gods', here.

Victoria Bernal

Victoria Bernal is Professor at the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences.

Nick Couldry

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and communications at LSE.

Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, where he is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge.

Satish Deshpande

Satish Deshpande, M.A. (Economics) (J.N.U.), M.A., Ph.D. (California), is Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi.

Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg is a visual anthropologist who studies and works with cultural activists in contemporary social movements.

Charles Hirschkind

Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Peter Van Der Veer

Peter van der Veer is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen.

Ralph Schroeder

Ralph Schroeder is Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He was formerly Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden).

Carol Upadhya

Carol Upadhya is Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) Bengaluru.

Lisa Wedeen

Lisa Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College and the Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago.

Angela Zito

Angela Zito is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.