Fuller was a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester prior to holding a similar position as lecturer in anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) between 1979 and 1987. He was a
reader in anthropology at the LSE between 1987 and 1994 and has been an emeritus professor of anthropology there since 2009. 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. His first fieldwork was among the
Nair and
Syrian Christian communities of Kerala in 1971–72. 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. Fuller was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. == Publications ==