Mekhala Krishnamurthy is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University. She has trained at Harvard University (A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies), the University of Cambridge (M.Phil. in Social Anthropology) and at University College London, where she completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology as a UCL Global Excellence Scholar. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi and Non-Resident Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, where she previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prior to joining Ashoka, she taught in the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University.