Speaker Series: Pariroo Rattan

Dr. Pariroo Rattan is a Weinberg College Postdoctoral Fellow in Science in Human Culture and the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. She will also be teaching at the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern. Pariroo is a recent PhD graduate from Harvard University, where she was a long-standing Fellow at the HKS Science, Technology and Society (STS) program and received a secondary field in Music. Her doctoral dissertation is titled A Marketplace for Populism: The Moral Politics of Digitization in India's Informal Economy and studies the relationship of the digital economy with mediating state institutions and nation-building in India, through an ethnography of street vendors in New Delhi using digital biometric ID Aadhaar and payment system Unified Payments Interface. To register, contact Sophie Kofman at [email protected].