PhD candidate, University of Arizona
Contributor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
About Rinku
Rinku Ashok Kumar is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology with a minor in medical anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Her dissertation examines how microbiome as a scientific and biomedical object becomes articulated by vernacular ideas and practices of gut health through expert and lay-expert discourses and practices. Specifically, her research examines gut microbiome’s technoscientifically knowable, and with that, technoscientifically and socio-culturally manipulatable qualities for health, wellness, and good life in India. Her dissertation research was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA.