Dwaipayan Banerjee

Dwaipayan Banerjee is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Anthropology at NYU. His research interests include the anthropology of health and science, the anthropology of South Asia, and the relationship between ethnographic and philosophical concepts. His doctoral research concerns the shaping of the concepts of life, pain and care in the contexts of biomedicine and postcolonial law in India.

Prior to his doctoral work at NYU, he graduated with an M.A. and an M.Phil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. His research has been funded by a Wenner Gren Foundation Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Fellowship, a Social Science Research Council and Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship (DPDF), a NYU Media and Culture Fellowship and a NYU McCracken Fellowship. His writings have been published in Contemporary South Asia, Social Research and Biosocieties, among other journals. Dwaipayan also studies and produces documentary and ethnographic films.