TARINI BEDI Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 W. Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607 Tel: 773-715-3569
[email protected] EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago 2004 M.A., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago 1998 M.A., Political Science, McGill University 1995 B.A., Social Sciences and Theater, Bennington College RESEARCH and TEACHING INTERESTS Urban Anthropology Political Anthropology/Anthropology of the State Anthropology of Labor and Work Gender and Politics Social and Cultural Theory Anthropology of Transport, Infrastructure Mobilities Anthropology of the Body Kinship South Asia; South-east Asia EMPLOYMENT 2018- University of Illinois at Chicago, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology 2012-2018 University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology 2010-2012 University of Chicago, Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations 2010-2012 University of Chicago, Senior Research Associate, Committee on Southern Asian Studies 2008-2012 University of Chicago, Associate Director, South Asia Language and Area Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies 2007-2008 University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Scholar, Women’s Studies Program 2008 Carnegie Mellon University, Project Manager, Eberly Center for Teaching and the Office of the Associate Provost for Education VISITING ACADEMIC INVITATIONS AND HONORS 2019 University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia