Renny Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Thomas received his PhD in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has been a Charles Wallace Fellow in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (2017-2018), Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Cultural History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany ( 2022 & 2023), and the Taki Visiting Global Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York (2024-2025).

Thomas is an Elected Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Cambridge, UK. His research interests are largely in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology of Religion. He is the author of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor of Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations (Routledge, 2022).

He has published articles in various journals including, Science, Technology and Society (SAGE), Public Understanding of Science (SAGE), Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (Wiley). Thomas currently serves as Associate Editor of Social Studies of Science (SAGE), and Book Review co-editor, Contributions to Indian Sociology (SAGE).