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Hisham holds an M.Sc. in Life Sciences with three years of experience in conservation biology. He has worked at the Black Kite project at the Wildlife Institute of India on Black Kite ecology and was a Nature鈥揅ulture Fellow with the Wildlife Conservation Society-India, where he studied Sloth Bear鈥揾uman relations. During this fellowship, he produced a report titled “A Relational Perspective of Sloth Bear鈥揌uman Relations in the Hampi Region of Karnataka”.
His doctoral research examines multispecies relations across rural and urban India, with a primary ethnographic focus on human鈥搒loth bear interactions in rural Karnataka, analyzing practices of care and conflict, and the interplay of different knowledge traditions, including local belief systems, religion, and science alongside regimes of governance, to analyze how animals are constituted as sacred beings, co-inhabitants, and risk-bearing subjects within changing contexts.
