Ms. Shagufta Kaur Bhangu is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Shiv Nadar University. Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on the medicalisation of pain and its therapeutics. Between 2014-2016, she completed fifteen months of fieldwork in Kolkata at a medical institution managing chronic pain conditions of industrial labourers. Through her dissertation, she is exploring the constitution of pain as a medical object, it's links with specific bodies, personhood (subjectivity) and communities (collectives). In particular, her work focuses on language, knowledge systems and epistemic practices through which biomedicine produces and addresses pain.
Teaching Assistantship: War & Media (SOC 212), Spring 2017; Politics of Life & Lifestyle, Monsoon 2014
Research Interests: Pain, Inscriptions, Epistemic Practices, Normal/Pathological
McGill University Anthropology Graduate Students Conference April 2018
South Asian Graduate Students Conference, University of Chicago March 2018
European Association for Social Anthropolgy's Medical Anthropology Network Conference July 2017
Research Scholars Workshop, Shiv Nadar University March 2015
Anthropocene Campus, HKW Berlin & Max Planck Institute for History of Science November 2014
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Scholar at Joint Medical Anthropology Programme
University of California San Francisco & University of California Berkeley