Anisha Chadha

Anisha Chadha brings her training in medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and ethnographic filmmaking together to research cultures of medicine in South Asia and its diaspora. Her current research project explores Indian medical device invention, specifically the ways medical hardware technologies are imagined and tested before they enter Indian and global markets. Based on this research, she is currently working on her first monograph, which explores the ethics and politics of contemporary health innovation and contends with the possibilities and limits of ethnographic methods in anthropological, as well as engineering, research sites. More broadly, Chadha’s research and teaching interests span anthropology of the body, STS, medical anthropology, political-economy, and US-India relations. Her work has been generously funded by the Fulbright Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.