Meghna Roy

Doctoral Research Fellow - Department of Social Anthropology
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Email meghna.roy@sai.uio.no
Mobile phone +47 48625308
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Eilert Sundts hus 9. etg. 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1091 Blindern 0317 Oslo
Other affiliations Faculty of Social Sciences (Student)

Research

Academic interests

Thematic: Psychological anthropology, class, medical anthropology

Regional: India

Project: Participant in Shrinking the Planet

Background

Education:

  • Master of Philosophy, Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2023
  • Master of Arts, Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2020
  • Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta, 2018

Work:

  • Research Assistant, School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, 2023
  • Teaching Assistant, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2021
  • Research Assistant, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2019
  • Research Associate, Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University, 2019
  • Research Intern, Social Informatics Research Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2018
  • Fellowship Recruitment Intern, Teach For India, 2017
  • Editorial Intern, Hindustan Times, 2016-2017

Awards

  • Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, Government of India, 2021 to 2023
  • Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, Autumn 2023
  • H. Russell Bernard Student Travel Award 2024

 

Tags: psychotherapy, India, class, Medical Anthropology

Publications

  • Roy, Meghna (2022). Nostalgia, Belonging, and Healing: Thinking about Thinking of Him. Economic and Political Weekly. ISSN 0012-9976.
  • Roy, Meghna (2022). Needles, Blood, and Data: The Case of COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects. Economic and Political Weekly. ISSN 0012-9976.
  • Roy, Meghna (2022). The Biomedical Empire: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. By B. K. Rothman, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 164. $14.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978-1-5036-2881-6. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN 0141-9889. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13580.
  • Roy, Meghna (2021). Fat Planet: Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital Eds. Eillen P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis, 2017, Fat Planet: Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital, Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 272 pp., ISBN 978-0-82635-800-4. Anthropology Book Forum. ISSN 2380-7725.

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