Dr Haripriya Narasimhan

Haripriya Narasimhan's work is focused on South Asia, particularly Tamil Nadu, southern India. Her doctoral research in 2001-2002 was in medical anthropology. She looked at how poor women in urban and rural areas engaged in health care decision-making, navigating their way through complicated, and medically pluralistic systems available. She finished her Ph.D at Syracuse University in 2006. At the LSE, Haripriya worked on an ESRC-funded project on "Regionalism, Nationalism and Globalisation in India," (2003-2005). She conducted fieldwork amongst middle class families in Chennai, especially software professionals. With Prof. Chris Fuller, Haripriya has been working on an ethnographic study of a Tamil Brahman subcaste (2003-2007). From 2007-2010, Haripriya will be an ESRC Research Fellow. During the fellowship period, her aim is to consolidate and disseminate research work in the three diverse projects she has been engaged in the last seven years.

Selected publications:

2007. (with Chris Fuller) Information technology professionals and the new-rich middle class in Chennai (Madras). Modern Asian Studies, 41 (1), pp. 121-150.

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