Paro Mishra
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Paro received her Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2017. Her core research interests lie at the intersection of Gender and Technology – New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) and Information/ Digital Technologies, in particular. She has published on intimate migrations, masculinity, aging, care circulation, care work and gendered surveillance. Paro has received several fellowships and grants from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, University Grants Commission, IIT Delhi and the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She has recently finished a project on sex-selective technologies, male marriage squeeze and cross-cultural intimacies funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (2018). Her current research is examining intersections of Gender, Health and Digital Technologies with a focus on emerging FemTech Landscape in India. This project is funded by IIITD-IITD MFIRP Scheme. Select publications include special issues co-editorship for Asian Bioethics Review (2021) and Asian Journal of Women's Studies and in Journals like Anthropology and Aging, The Sociological Review, Economic & Political Weekly, and Society and Culture in South Asia.
Research Interests
Gender and Technology
New reproductive Technologies
Digital Technologies
Demographic Anthropology
Intimate Relations
Migration and Transnationalism
Teaching Interests
Enhancement Technologies and Body
Contemporary Indian Society
Digital Intimacy
Gender Studies, Migration and Transnationalism