University of Heidelberg

Dr. Pallabi Roy

Pallabi Roy, M.Phil. Dr. Pallabi Roy

Position

  • Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
  • Programmkoordinator M.A Health and Society in South Asia

Kontakt

Building 4130

Room 130.02.18

E-Mail: pallabi.roy@sai.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)6221 - 54 15232

Sprechstunden

Im Semester:
Montag, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr
(nur nach Vereinbarung via E-Mail)


Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
  • Anthropology of Science and Technology
  • Anthropology of the Body
  • Anthropology of Death and Dying
  • Digital Anthropology
  • Qualitative Research Methods

Regionale Schwerpunkte

  • India
  • South Asia

Kurzbiographie

Pallabi Roy obtained her Bachelor‘s degree in Journalism from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University in 2009. Her Bachelor dissertation based on secondary literature was titled ‘Sexuality of the Modern Indian woman: A Look at Aparna Sen’s Cinema’. In 2011, she was awarded a Master’s degree in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She was then awarded an M.Phil degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2014 and she was also awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission in India while pursuing her M.Phil. Her M.Phil thesis was titled ‘Through Menopause: A Sociological Study of the Midlives of Women’. In 2015, she was awarded the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship to pursue her doctoral research in Anthropology at Tübingen University, Germany. For her doctoral dissertation titled ‘“You drowned me in tears, where did you go?”: An Ethnographic Study of Reproductive Loss and Grief in Middle-Class Kolkata, India’, Pallabi pursued long term ethnographic research between 2016 and 2018 at three infertility clinics. In May 2020, she completed her doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Alex and Prof. Dr. Karin Polit.

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