Luke received his BA from the Βι¶ΉΣ³» (2009) and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2015). His doctoral thesis explored the market and kin economy of a bustling commercial town in Sri Lanka. Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Luke is about to embark on ethnographic research in the Maldives as part of the '' project. This project will provide an ethnographic account of the culture of road builders, their knowledge practices, interrelations and motivations.He is also the Graduate Early Career Representative on the Governing Council of the British Association for South Asian Studies (), and a senior editor for .