My current research and writing are oriented around themes of movement: the global movement of medical ideas about selves and bodies, relationships between bodily movement and subjectivity, and kinship and gender as involving categories and relationships in motion. I am working on a history of hysteria (the medical diagnosis) in India, tracing the long global history of medical ideas about consciousness and trauma, a history that involves the South Asian emergence of gendered ethical paradigms interlinking kinship and medicine. This project has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, through which I was a Frederick Burkhardt fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2013-2014. My 2014 book Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India was awarded the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for work on gender and health, and my previous publications include Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India, Postcolonial Disorders (co-edited with Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Byron Good, and Sandra Hyde), and numerous articles on gender, psychiatry, reproduction, kinship, and caste in South Asia.

Medical anthropology, gender, mental health, reproduction, cultures of biomedicine, kinship, global feminism, history of the body. Geographical focus on India.