Sucharita Kanjilal

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Primary Academic Program: Anthropology

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Asian Studies, Experimental Humanities

Biography: Sucharita Kanjilal’s research focuses on feminist theories of global capitalism, shifting regimes of social reproduction, critical food studies, and contemporary caste-class relations in South Asia. She draws connections between feminist economic anthropology, anthropology of media, gender studies, the anthropology of food, and anti-caste epistemologies. Her current book manuscript, titled Home Chefs: Indian Households Produce for the Global Creator Economy, is an ethnographic study of Indian food media producers engaged in global platform-based industries of online content creation. A former journalist from Mumbai, Kanjilal's work can be found in Feminist Media Studies, Gastronomica, the Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India, Hindustan Times, Scroll.in, the News Minute, and the Heritage Radio Network and Eat This podcasts. She has received grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, the UCLA Sambhi Foundation, as well as awards from the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Robert B. Edgerton foundation. She teaches courses on the anthropology of food and recipes, feminist economic anthropology, comparative approaches to media, and ethnographies of South Asia, among others. 

BA, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai; MA, SOAS University of London; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. At Bard since 2023.
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