
Anindita Majumdar
Anindita Majumdar is Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. She has been researching commercial surrogacy, kinship and infertility since 2010. Her book based on her ethnographic research was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press, and is titled Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India. The monograph was also shortlisted for the Bloomsbury LSE Social Anthropology Monograph Award 2016. Anindita was invited to contribute to the Oxford India Short Introductions Series on Surrogacy, which was published in 2019. Anindita is on the international advisory board of the journal Medicine, Anthropology, Theory, and is an external member of Center for Reproductive Health (CORTH) at the University of Sussex. In 2023, she was Social Sciences and Public Policy Global Visiting Fellow at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. Currently, Anindita is writing a book on her research linked to age, in-vitro fertilization and the biological clock in India, funded by Wellcome UK. Findings from her research have been previously published in four dedicated special issues edited with Asian Bioethics Review,Contemporary South Asia, Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online, and Anthropology and Aging.