Doctoral Student Fellow
Ph.D Candidate Department of Anthropology, New York University
Ethical Threads: Design Values and Historical Justice in India's Global Fashion Worlds
Matthew Raj Webb (he/him) is a multi-modal scholar working at the intersection of the Anthropology of Art, Labor History, and South Asian Studies. His doctoral research explores the transnational development and nationalist transformation of fashion design as a field and profession between the US and India, focusing conceptually on questions of post-colonial heritage, expertise, and ethics. Webb’s research has been supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for Visual Anthropology, and the Textile Society of America. His scholarship, which spans writing and filmmaking, has been published in various academic and public forums and recognized by awards, including the 2022 Eric Wolf Prize (Society for the Anthropology of Work) and the 2023 Hakken Prize (Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, & Computing).