Department of Anthropology
Bio
Montita is a trainee in the MD/PhD program. Her anthropological research interests are focused on the intersection of medical and linguistic anthropology towards questions of translation, care, and harm in semi/post-colonial contexts. Her previous research projects for her undergraduate and master’s degrees focused on questions of knowledge production between engineering practices such as medical device design and queer/feminist science and technology studies. Before coming to Penn, she was working in healthcare consulting and briefly at a spice shop.
Education
M.A. in Medical Anthropology at SOAS, University of London - 2020
B.A. in Biomedical Engineering and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University - 2019
Research Interests
medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, coloniality, care, biopolitics, subjectivity