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Prof. Ishani Saraf
Assistant Professor of Program in Science, Technology, and Society
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Program in Science, Technology, and Society
MIT Room:
E51
(617) 253-4062
isaraf@mit.edu
https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/ishani-saraf/
Research Summary
Professor Saraf joined the Program in Science, Technology, and Society as an assistant professor in July 2024. She is a sociocultural anthropologist. Her research studies the transformation and trade of discarded machines in translocal spaces in India and the Indian Ocean, where she focuses on questions of postcolonial capitalism, urban belonging, material practices, situated bodies of knowledge, and environmental governance. She received her PhD from the University of California at Davis, and prior to joining MIT, she was a postdoc and lecturer at the University of Virginia.
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