Priti Ramamurthy is a professor in the department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. An ethnographer, she has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation. Ramamurthy’s articulation of feminist commodity chain analysis, as a way to track the creation of value and gendered identities, is a methodological contribution to studies of gender and globalization. 

Research/Teaching Areas: Agrarian Transitions, Anthropology, Biotechnology, Consumption and Commodity Cultures, Ethnography, Feminism, Indian, Political Economy, Reproduction, Transnational, Women of Color

Current Projects/Research: “Intermittent Migration: Female Agency Within and Beyond Marriage”, GenderTalk, ‘Gender and Internal Migration,’ NCAER National Data Innovation Center Gender Hub, 2024-01, 2024, 8-10.  “Milna julna: pleasures and pauses in working class female migrant lives in India”, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 13 April 2023.