Education

I earned my doctorate in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2025. I have benefited from a multidisciplinary program in my graduate education which combined historical, anthropological, sociological and humanistic approaches to understand science, medicine, technology and the environment. My training in the history and sociology of medicine has been particularly helpful for my research and teaching purposes. During my graduate education at the University of Pennsylvania I was also trained in History, Gender and Sexuality Studies and South Asian Studies which proved ideal as I worked on my thesis on the history of sexology in modern India. I earned a graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I undertook graduate courses and independent studies across a variety  of subjects and themes ranging from global sexual health to gender and sexuality in pre-modern South Asia.  My interdisciplinary training at the intersections of history of science and medicine, gender and sexuality studies as well as South Asian studies provided me with the unique vantage to fully unpack the epistemological politics undergirding global cultures of sexological knowledge production.  

My interest in health, medicine and sexuality first arose during my Masters' program in History at Presidency University in Kolkata, India. I was introduced to the history of medicine and in South Asia and studies on global sexual cultures that I could further expand upon during my PhD. My interest in History, the social sciences and the humanities began during my undergraduate studies at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata as I majored in English Literature and minored in History and Economics.