
Vyayanthi Rao (Ph.D., University of Chicago) holds a joint appointment
with the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, where she is
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her research focuses on
globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of
technology, infrastructure, memory and modernity in South Asia. She
currently has two book projects in development, to be titled ‚
Ruins and Recollections: the Heritage of Modernization in a South Asian Context and
Infra-City: Catastrophic Urbanisms in Post-Industrial Mumbai.
currently teaching