ANINDITA MAJUMDAR

Anindita Majumdar has been researching on 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 book was based on her doctoral research, and was awarded the ‘Distinction in Doctoral Research Award’ in 2016 by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. The monograph was also shortlisted for the Bloomsbury LSE Social Anthropology Monograph Award 2016.  Anindita was recently invited to contribute to the Oxford India Short Introductions Series on Surrogacy, which was published in 2019. She is currently researching and writing on the linkages between ageing and assisted reproductive technologies in India: including fieldwork in North India amongst post-menopausal couples who became pregnant through the use of assisted reproductive technologies. The research has been supported with a generous grant from Wellcome UK, along with a parallel research on the biological clock and infertility treatment in South India supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR).  Anindita is also completing fieldwork on reproductive slavery and reproductive justice in the context of commercial surrogacy as part of a collaborative research project with University of Stockholm and Uppsala, funded by the Swedish Research Council. 

Anindita is external member of  Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technology and Health (CORTH) at the University of Sussex; and was recently invited to join the international Advisory Board of Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT). She has also been a visiting fellow at the Reproductive Sociology Group (ReproSoc), Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (2019), and at the Department of Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden (2016). 

Anindita was recently awarded the King's College London Social Sciences and Public Policy Global Visiting Fellowship 2022-23.