Christopher John Fuller is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy.
He has studied and written extensively about the people of India, particularly with regard to subjects such as Hinduism, the caste system, and the relationship between globalisation and the middle-classes.
[2] Fuller's primary area of field research has been the state of Tamil Nadu, particularly between 1976 and 2001 at the Hindu temple in Madurai that is dedicated to Minakshi.
Fuller has also conducted fieldwork in Chennai (middle-class managers and software professionals, 2003–05) and on Tamil Brahmins (2005–08).
Other areas of research have examined popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system and the history of anthropology in British India.