Anindita Majumdar

I have been researching commercial surrogacy, kinship, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies since 2010.  Currently, I am 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 was supported by 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). 

My publications include the monograph, Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India, published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The manuscript was awarded the ‘Distinction in Doctoral Research Award’ in 2016 by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; and was shortlisted for the Bloomsbury LSE Social Anthropology Monograph Award 2016.  Other publications include: Oxford India Short Introductions Series on Surrogacy, published in 2019; and five thematic journal special issues on reproduction, ageing, IVF and population.

I am associated with the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technology and Health (CORTH) at the University of Sussex; Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT) as an International Advisory Board Member;  Reproductive Sociology Group (ReproSoc), Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; and Department of Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden. I was recently awarded the King's College London Social Sciences and Public Policy Global Visiting Fellowship 2022-23. Currently, I serve as Editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

My research interests include reproductive health, childlessness, girl child, and interpersonal familial relations.