Aisha Chughtai

Doctoral Candidate

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Email: achughta@sas.upenn.edu
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Education

  • Villanova University, B.S., Biology, B.A., English; 2015
  • University of Pennsylvania, Master’s of Public Health – Global Health; 2022
  • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology, PhD Program; 2018-present

Awards/Fellowships/Grants

  • Presidential Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-24

Publications

Research Interests

AOS: Medical and Political Anthropology, Critical Global Health, South Asia Studies

AOC: Social medicine, biopolitics, bioethics, biocapitalism, embodiment theory, social epidemiology and epistemology, health and disease, health and technology

Interests outside the lab

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