Gayatri Reddy Appointed Faculty Fellow by Institute of Humanities for 2022-2023
The Institute for the Humanities recently announced the appointment of six Faculty Fellows for 2022-2023. The 2022-2023 Fellows' lectures and seminars will anchor a series of programs and conferences throughout the year.
Among the awardees is Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, Anthropology and Global Asian Studies with the research entiled "Karma of Black Folk: Siddis and Negotiations of “Racial” Belonging in Contemporary India."
Professor Reddy joins the fortieth group of fellows appointed since the Institute was founded in 1982.
Contact: Linda Vavra, LVavra@uic.edu, 312-996-6354
Dr. Reddy is an associate professor in Anthropology, and Gender & Women's Studies and an affiliate faculty in Global Asian Studies. She is a sociocultural anthropologist and her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of sexuality, gender, health, and the politics of subject and community-formation in India, as well as within the immigrant South Asian queer community in the U.S. Broadly, her work interrogates the contours of cultural belonging through the paradoxical dialectic of “alienation and intimacy.”