Sanjay Srivastava is currently Department of Anthropology and Sociology Professor at SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies). He is also British Academy Global Professor.

His research is primarily focused on South Asia and spans across themes of urbanism and urban cultures, consumer cultures, the new-middle classes, masculinities, and new cultures of work. He is currently involved in several individual and collaborative research projects. These include 'Imagined Futures: Technology, Urban Planning and their Subjects at the Margins of an Indian Megapolis'; 'Gendered Violence and Urban Transformations in India and South Africa'; 'Religion and the City in India'; and 'Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamic of Change in India's “Smart” Urban Age'.

An interest in ethnographic film has led to collaborations with film-maker David MacDougall on 'The Doon School Chronicles' and 'Kotla Walks. Performing Locality' with Simon Wilmot.

His key publications include Masculinity and the Post-National Indian City. Neighbourhoods, Streets, Home and Consumerism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022); Entangled Urbanism. Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (OUP, 2015); Passionate Modernity. Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India (Routledge, 2007); and Constructing Post-Colonial India. National Character and the Doon (Routledge, 1998). He also writes for the print and electronic media.