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Dr Rani Singh commenced her appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Inter-Asia Engagements and Asian Urbanisms Clusters with effect from 3 January 2025.

She graduated with a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Western Australia in 2024 and completed her M.Phil. in Chinese Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Rani’s research conceptualises transnational cultural infrastructure in relation to regional architectures of connectivity, such as China’s Belt and Road Initiative and India’s Project Mausam. At ARI she will work on the rise of civilisational politics in world affairs and the new forms of cultural infrastructure now being produced around themes of connected histories and ideas of “shared heritage”.