Tanima Sharma is an anthropologist of South Asia, with a PhD in Anthropology (2025) from the University of Chicago. They work on caste capitalism, labour politics, social reproduction, affect and aesthetics. 

Their doctoral project theorizes class ambivalence to understand how labouring subjects and politics are being constituted under neoliberal Hindutva in peri-urban communist movement spaces in north India. Based on long-term fieldwork conducted between 2015-2024 amongst automobile industry workers and agrarian farm labourers, it follows struggles for better wages and working conditions in industrial Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal, Haryana, as well as a sustained campaign for collective land ownership in agrarian Sangrur, Punjab, laying out where these movements encounter hegemonic Hindu nationalist visions of the past and the future, and interrogating how the boundaries between class and caste come to be drawn.

Tanima has most recently taught courses called "Social Reproduction: Labour, Life and Worldmaking," "Intimacy" and "The Art of Revolution" (the latter two at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago). Class offerings for 2025-26 include "Haunting and/as/of Power," along with sections of the "Colonizations" sequence