Dalel Benbabaali recently completed a Ph.D. in social geography focused on dominant caste and territory in South India from University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre. She has taught at the Sorbonne and is currently in a postdoctoral position at the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics and Political Science as part of the
international research program, "Inequality and Poverty in India: Dalits and Adivasis." Benbabaali is working on a book on the Kamma caste based on her doctoral thesis.