Academic Collaboration under Penn Global on “The Kerala Maritime Communities Project (KMCP) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, begins on 1 July 2022. The project is headed by Professor Thomas F. Tartaron at the Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania. The collaborators from IUCSSRE are Prof P. Sanal Mohan, visiting fellow, IUCSSRE and Prof Sujith Parayil, Adjunct faculty, IUCSSRE.
The Kerala Maritime Communities Project (KMCP) engages several “traditional” fishing communities in Kerala state, South India. The specific aims of KMCP are to:
Tartaron will partner with Mahatma Gandhi University and the Kerala Council for Historical Research to disseminate results locally and worldwide through open-source platforms. The project follows upon a pilot phase in 2014 consisting of 17 oral history interviews.
Professor Thomas F. Tartaron
Prof P Sanal Mohan
Prof Sujith Parayil