Education

• PhD Candidate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (Ongoing).
• MPhil, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
• M.A. in Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),
• M.A. in South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
• B.A. Political Science, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

Profile

Ammel Sharon is a historian whose research focuses on histories of higher education, academic disciplines, pedagogy, languages, and archival practice. At the National Law School, she is involved with The Writing Centre, which supports students in developing university-level reading and writing practices, and offers one-on-one consultations. She is also building the NLS Law and Society Archives, a multimedia repository dedicated to preserving and making accessible records of the legal profession, legal education, and social initiatives that have shaped the legal landscape in independent India.

Between 2022 and 2024, Ammel led the Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection and Activism (QAMRA) Archival Project at NLSIU. Some of my collaborative work can be found on understory.in.

Publications

Books

• Ammel Sharon, K. Anupama, Hélène Guétat-Bernard, S. Prasad, J. Lazar, Amuthavalluvan V., A. Indhu, S. Narpavi, J. Andrieu, F. Landy, and N. Gallai. Native Bees and Pollination in the Puducherry Bioregion. Science & Society no. 1. Puducherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2022. Open-access: in English and Tamil
• Co-author with RVS Sundaram, The Duel of the Maces: A translation of Ranna’s 10th century poem, Gadāyuddham with introduction and notes. Manohar, 2018 and Routledge, 2020.
• Co-author with RVS Sundaram, The Ocean of Prosody: A translation of Nagavarama’s Chandōmbudhi with introduction and notes. Central University of Karnataka, 2021.

Articles

• “Subspace”. Illustrated by Sharanya Ravi. Queer India Now, edited by Dhrubo Jyoti and Dhamini Ratnam, Westland Books/Queer Directions, 2026.
• They, the People, Socio-Legal Review 21, no. 2, 2025.
• Kumar Akhilesh et al. Flakes, Feelings, and Finesse: Experiential Studies of Skill- Acquisition in Novice Knappers. PaleoAnthropology No. 1, 2025: 116-153.
• Diya Deviah and Ammel Sharon, “Continuity without Cultivation”?: The Student Figure, Legal Education, and Writing Pedagogy in India, Socio-Legal Review 20(1), 2024.
• Mirror and the Lamp (Book Review of Gita Ramaswamy, Land, Guns, Caste, Woman. Navayana, 2022), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVIII No 43, 2023.
• Historical Errors: Debates in Kannada Text Criticism, The MISR Review 5, 2022.