Research
Wed, 08/03/2016 - 10:56 — Anonymous
Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on 1.) science, technology & medicine, 2.) history and temporality, 3.) ethics and 4.) design. He has been conducting fieldwork in South Asia since 2006, mostly in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Prior to joining the department, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University in the Global Health Program. His research has received support from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute for Indian Studies and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation. Dr. Venkat is currently on leave to finish his first book, India after Antibiotics: Tuberculosis at the Limits of Cure. This work examines how the concepts of the curable and the incurable have mutated in relation to shifts in therapeutic form, as well as changing ideas about racial, geographic and species-based forms of difference.