Profile
Manjari Mahajan is Associate Professor in the听听Graduate Programs in International Affairs, and Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute at 麻豆传媒色情片. She is a听听for 2025-26 at City College, CUNY.
Her research and teaching are on the topics of global health, politics of science and technology, philanthrocapitalism, international development, digital governance, and history of ethics. Her work, which is fundamentally interdisciplinary, lies at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, Public Policy, and Anthropology. Much of her empirical focus has been on India, South Africa, China and the United States, and on global organizations such as the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization.
She has held fellowships at the Moynihan Center at CUNY, Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle, Germany, and the Social Science Research Council in the United States. Her papers have received prizes from the Society for Social Studies for Science and the American Anthropological Association.听Her work听has appeared in a range of academic journals and also been featured in blogs and popular media such as听The Nation听and听The New York Times.听She has co-edited听Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking, published by Amsterdam University Press (2025), and was founder/co-editor of the blog,听Pandemic Discourses.
Degrees Held
PhD, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
MSc, Science and Technology Policy, SPRU Sussex University
BA, Harvard University
Recent Publications
鈥淒ata Worlds: The Gates Foundation and the Making of Global Health,鈥澨Economy and Society听(accepted, forthcoming in 2026).
听co-editor (with Mark Frazier), Amsterdam University Press, June 2025.
鈥溙辈蕴Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking, co-editor (with Mark Frazier), Amsterdam University Press, June 2025.
鈥,鈥澨Global Policy听Opinion, co-authored with Sakiko Fukuda Parr, et al. 7 July, 2025.
鈥,鈥 The Political Determinants of Health Collective Opinion, University of Oslo, April 25, 2023.
鈥Conversations on the Frontline: The Politics of Negotiating Pandemic Preparedness,鈥 Pandemic Discourses, December 2022.
鈥,鈥 International Pandemic Lawmaking blog, Harvard Law School, November 2021.听
Digital Technology and the Political Determinants of Health Inequities,听听co-edited with Katerini Storeng, Sakiko Fukuda Parr and Sridhar Venkatapuram,听Global Policy Journal听12(6), July 2021.
鈥,鈥 co-authored with Katerini Storeng, Sakiko Fukuda Parr and Sridhar Venkatapuram,听Global Policy Journal听12(6), July 2021.
,鈥澨Global Policy Journal听12(6), July 2021.
鈥,鈥澨The International Journal of Law in Context, Cambridge University Press, Spring 2021.
鈥,鈥 Conversation with Dr. Srinath Reddy on Pandemic Discourses, June 2021.
鈥,鈥 Conversation with K.M. Gopakumar, Pandemic Discourses, May 2021.
鈥,鈥 Pandemic Discourses, December 2020.
鈥,鈥 (with Sakiko Fukuda Parr, Mark Frazier) Pandemic Discourses, May 2020.
鈥Global Policy Journal, January 2019.
鈥,鈥澨Global Public Health, December 2017.
","听BioSocieties, August 2017.
鈥溙Social Research, Winter 2012.
HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses.听Social Science Research Council/The Hague, Clingendael Institute, New York.听
Introduction to special issue,听HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses,听co-authored with Alex de Waal and Jennifer Klot,听Forced Migration Review, 2010.听
鈥淏irth in the Age of AIDS: Women Reproduction and HIV/AIDS in India,鈥 Book review,听Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Summer 2015.
鈥淓xplaining AIDS in South Africa: A Role for History,鈥 Book review,听BioSocieties听4(1), March 2009.听
鈥,鈥澨Science and Public Policy听35(8), October 2008.
鈥淚nventing Global Ecology,鈥 Book review,听Conservation and Society听2(1), January 2004.
Research Interests
Global health, science and technology policy, digital governance, history of ethics, biotechnology, postcolonial democracies, international development, intellectual property, humanitarian emergencies, environmental politics, India, South Africa, China.