Meghana Joshi

Meghana Joshi serves as a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, specializing in medical anthropology with research spanning Germany/Europe and India.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• MA from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• MA & MPhil from Tata Institute of Social Sciences
• BA from Pune University

Her research examines health inequalities, culture and reproduction, gender and masculinities, and childlessness through comparative analysis of macro policies intersecting with social and spatial contexts. Current investigations focus on demographic anxieties, loneliness, and belonging in urban settings, particularly Berlin and Mumbai.

Her publication trajectory reveals consistent engagement with reproduction and childlessness across 16 years, evolving from Mumbai infertility studies (2008) to Berlin-focused analyses of fatherhood (2020-2021) and culminating in her 2024 book on conspicuous reproduction. This body of work integrates medical anthropology with demographic studies, emphasizing gendered experiences within reunified Germany's social landscape while maintaining strong connections to Indian contexts.