PhD (2010) Archaeology/Geo-Archaeology, Anna University, Chennai

MA (2005): Experimental Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

MA (2004): Archaeology, University of Madras, Chennai, India

BA (2002): History of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting, Stella Maris College, Chennai, India

• 2017-2021:  Assistant Professor, Heritage, Science and Society program, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 
• 2015-2016 :  Department of History, School of Humanities and Social Science, Shiv Nadar University
• 2014-2015 :  Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
• 2010-2014 :  Post-Doctoral Associate, Heritage, Science and Society program, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Iron Age-Early Historic Archaeology, Popular perceptions and relationships with the past, Landscape Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology

BOOKS
Haricharan S. 2016. Siruthavoor An Iron Age-Early Historical burial Site, Tamil Nadu, South India. Archaeopress. UK.
 JOURNAL ARTICLES
Morrison K D, Sinopoli C M, Wilcox Black K, Trivedi M, Bauer A, Lycett M, Haricharan  S, Bates J and Reddy S. (2022). From the Southern Neolithic to the Iron Age: a View from Kadebakele. In Korisettar R (Edt).  Beyond Stones and More Stones, volume 3, Bangalore: Mythic Society.  
Haricharan, S. 2022. Staging the temple as a living experience of a distant past. In C Turner., Srinivasan, S., Daboo, J., & Sinha, A. (Eds.) Performance at the Urban Periphery: Insights from South India, pp. 86-104. Routledge
Haricharan S, Nalini N.S, Srinivasan S and Ranganthan S. 2020. Fort walls and moats at Vallam, Thanjavur: Exploring them using satellite images. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology (7): 195-210.
Haricharan, S. 2019. Localizing the Different Faces of Archaeological Landscapes in South India. Public Archaeology: 1-15.
Haricharan S.  2019. Taking Archaeological concepts outside the Social Science class in Indian schools. Exarc Journal (https://exarc.net/issue-2019-2)
Haricharan S, Nagabhooshan, Srinivasan S, Rajani M B and Ranganathan S. 2016. Insights on locating iron production sites in Telangana using satellite imagery. Current Science 111(9): 1536-1543.
Haricharan S and Keerthi N. 2014. Can the Tinai help understand the Iron Age Early Historic landscape of Tamilnadu?. World Archaeology 46(5): 641-660.
Haricharan S, Bhadreenath S and Achyuthan H. 2014. Excavating different Iron age-Early Historical burials in Siruthavoor. Tamil Civlization 25 (1-4): 57-73. 
Haricharan S, Achyuthan H and Suresh N. 2013. Situating Megalithic burials in the Iron Age-Early Historical landscape of southern India. Antiquity (87): 1–15 
Lowson A and Haricharan S. 2013. Sharing India’s Past: Recording Portable Antiquities and Facilitating a Shared Heritage. Heritage and Us 2(1): 6-12
Haricharan S and Achyuthan H. 2013. Post depositional processes and the appearance of megalithic burials at Siruthavoor. Indian Journal Of Physical Anthropology and Human Genetics for a special volume on Indian prehistory and paleoanthropology [Guest editor: Prof. D.K. Bhattacharya] 32(1): 143-162
 

Haricharan S. 2021. Burial patterns on the IA-EH landscape: A view from Siruthavoor, Tamilnadu. (Webinar) Iron Age in South Asia, Department of Archaeology, Kerala University (1-4 March)

Haricharan S. and Upadhyay C. 2020. Reimagining the urban: The present and the past, NIAS-INTACH webinar series (24 June)

Haricharan S. 2020. Craft specialization and mass production of bronze and brass images. Craft and Sustainability in South Asia workshop, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi (5-6 March)

Turner C and Haricharan S. 2020. The politics of performance in the urban periphery. Heritage for Global challenges conference. Lebanon (24-26 February)

Haricharan S, Kadambi H and Das R.2019. A critique of analogy in Indian archaeological discourse and practice, 24th Theoretical Archaeology Group, Syracuse, USA , (3-6 May)

Haricharan S, Morrison K and Lycett M.2018. Mapping the history of Iron Age-Early Historical burials of South India, 24th International Conference of the  European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) Naples, Italy, (2-6 July)

Haricharan S. 2017. Big stones and small pebbles: which matters more?, Centre for Ecological Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (15 February)

Haricharan S. 2015. Mapping the Iron Age-Early Historical Burials of North Tamil Nadu, Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, (March 12)

Haricharan S. 2012. Developing interdisciplinary applications in archaeometallurgy and geo spatial archaeology. University Of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Haricharan S and Lawson A. 2011. The viability of adjusting the Portable Antiquity Scheme in the Indian context. International Association for Asian Heritage (IAAH), Colombo, Sri Lanka

Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow: September 2014 - September 2015.

Undergraduate Courses
Experimental Archaeology: An Introduction
Reading between the lines: Perceptions in the media of Archaeology 
Introduction to Archaeology
Graduate Courses 
From the ground up: Basics of History and Archaeology
Archaeological methods and theory
Reading landscape through archaeology and ecology Co instructor K.Tamma, Azim Premji University, Bangalore 
Contemporary Archaeology  
Spaces of power in past landscapes