Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences and Faculty Director of the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. His research lies at the intersection of Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and postcolonial studies, with a focus on the political economy of life sciences and biomedicine. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (2006) and Pharmocracy: Knowledge, Value and Politics in Global Biomedicine (2017), which explore the global political economy of genomics, pharmaceuticals, and biomedicine, with an empirical focus on the U.S. and India. His latest work, Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis (2021), rethinks multi-sited ethnography within contemporary debates about decolonization and the anthropology discipline. Currently, he is working on a book provisionally titled Transtitutional: Health, Law and Postapartheid Dis-ease, which examines the relationships between health and constitutionalism in postapartheid South Africa.