Dr. Haripriya Narsimhan

Dr. Haripriya Narsimhan

Dr. Haripriya Narsimhan is assistant professor (Anthropology) in the Dept of Liberal Arts at IIT-Hyderabad since March 2012. Her research interests are in two areas; medical anthropology, and anthropology of the media. She has worked on projects focused on issues of caste, class, gender, kinship, globalization, and migration, in rural and urban India, and amongst the Indian diaspora. Current research interests include, an ethnographic study of the production and viewing of Hindi television soap operas in India, and an anthropological study of diabetes among the poor and middle classes in urban India. Read More Contact Dr.