– Rijul Kochhar –
PhD Candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rijul Kochhar is a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s history; anthropology; and sts (HASTS) program. His interests include transnational histories of infectious diseases; environmental anthropology; and critical theories of science and rationality. He has conducted anthropological and historical research at interconnected sites in India, formerly-Soviet Georgia, and the US, where he explores how a post-antibiotic era is causing a resurgence of interest in a once-moribund bacteriophage therapy. Rijul’s research has featured recently in the Notes and Records of the Royal Society; Anthropology Now; and Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon.
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