Dr V K Selvakumar was awarded a Small Study and Research Grant (India) 2001-02, when a research scholar, Dept of Archaeology, Deccan College, Pune, for a critique of rock art research in India.
Dr. Selvakumar is a faculty member in the Department of Epigraphy and Archaeology, Tamil University, Thanjavur. He completed doctoral research and post-Doctoral research from Deccan College, Pune. He was a faculty member at Centre for Heritage Studies, Tripunithura, Kerala, from 2003 to 2007 and a NTICVA (Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum) UK Visiting Fellow as a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Southampton University. His research interests include archaeology of India, prehistory, heritage management, maritime history and archaeology, archaeological theory, heritage management, history of science and technology, Indian Ocean Cultural interactions, and ecocriticism.