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Pinky Hota is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, specializing in critical caste and race studies, gender and sexuality, and the political economy of right-wing politics in the context of caste capitalism. She is affiliated with Smith’s Program for the Study of Women and Gender and serves on the Smith-Duke Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Meridians.
- Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology, University of Chicago
- B.A. in Anthropology, University of Delhi
Her research examines the intersection of caste, race, and capitalism, focusing on how right-wing ethnonationalist politics in India perpetuate the exclusion of Dalits and indigenous Adivasi communities. She is currently working on projects related to environmental extraction, indigenous displacement in India, and caste/race in psychological sciences and technology in the U.S.
Her work has been funded by the Wenner-Gren and Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundations, and her publications appear in Modern Asian Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Member, Smith-Duke Editorial Advisory Board for Meridians
