Affiliates

Sanghamitra Das



Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology; Committee on Southern Asian Studies
Office: Haskell 224
sanghamitrad@uchicago.edu
Interests:

India; South Asia; Dalit and Adivasi Studies; genetics; illness narratives; (bio)citizenship; political economy of health; environment; embodiment.

PhD, Arizona State University, 2023

Alireza Doostdar



Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology of Religion, Divinity School
doostdar@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Anthropology of religion; Islam; modernity and the supernatural in Iran; Islamic spiritual cinema; modernist universalist religious movements; state entanglements with sorcery; the decades-old project of Islamizing the sciences in Iran.

PhD, Harvard, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, 2012