Dwai Banerjee

Dwai Banerjee is an Associate Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His work centers on reorienting science and technology studies through the intellectual labor of Global South practitioners, particularly in South Asia, examining intersections of health, computing, and postcolonial politics.

• Research Focus: Imperial formations, postcolonial STS, infrastructural failures in healthcare, and India's computing history
• Key Works: Enduring Cancer: Life, Death and Diagnosis in Delhi (Duke UP, 2020), Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India (Cornell UP, 2019), and forthcoming Computing in the Age of Decolonization (Princeton UP, 2026)

His ethnographic research spans cancer care in Delhi's marginalized communities, socio-political dimensions of blood donation in India, and India's Cold War computing initiatives. Funded by NSF, Mellon, Wenner-Gren, and SSRC, he combines anthropological methods with archival research and cultural text analysis.

Awards & Grants: National Science Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and film festival nomination.

Educated at NYU (PhD in Cultural Anthropology), Delhi School of Economics (M.Phil/Sociology), his scholarship bridges anthropology, STS, and South Asian studies while mentoring students and collaborating with interdisciplinary research teams.