S. Romi Mukherjee is a sociologist and historian of religion whose current research asks how the wisdom traditions and the history of philosophy can be marshalled to engage with the pressing crises of our current moment. In a broader sense, he is interested in rethinking the thresholds of the political from within the interstices of the social sciences and the humanities, or rather, from within the interval between praxis and “philosophy as a way of life.”
Previous to coming to NYU-Paris, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre Interdisciplinaire pour la Recherche Comparative en Sciences Sociales (2007-2009) where he worked on a series of European Commission research projects (Framework 7) concerning sustainable diversity, the future of the social sciences, and collective memory.
He was also a researcher and consultant at UNESCO in the Social and Human Sciences Sector (2009 - 2014) where he worked on issues pertaining to Ethics and Global Change, including the anthropology of technology, the Anthropocene and the humanities, and the implications of the information society. He is also visiting lecturer in the Political Humanities at Sciences Po – Paris.
Committed to radical interdisciplinarity and transversal approaches to politics, critical theory, and philosophy, he has published widely on inter alia the French Republic and its discontents, Buddhist philosophy, globalization 3.0, the ethics of climate change, the psychology of terrorism, political theology, Georges Bataille, George Orwell, Frantz Fanon, and Gilles Deleuze.
Selected monographs and edited volumes include: Durkheim and Violence (Blackwell, 2010), Social Memory and Hypermodernity (Blackwell, 2012, with Éric Brian and Marie Jaisson), and Nouveaux visages du religieux dans un monde sécularisé (Karthala, 2015, with Lionel Obadia).
At NYU-Paris, he teaches the “Global Media Seminar: Media, Culture, and Politics in France” and “What is Technology; Critical Approaches to ‘Man,’ Machines, and Material Culture.” He is also the Faculty Sponsor for NYU-Paris’ Poetry Workshop.