Shweta Rani

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Urban Studies
  • Epidemics
  • Sociology and Anthropology of Health and Illness
  • Science and Technology Studies

Biography

Shweta Rani is a medical anthropologist with a PhD and MPhil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Delhi and a bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. 

Her research explores the relationship between the urban and the pathological through an ethnographic focus on dengue epidemic in Delhi. Shweta is a bilingual scholar and translator who publishes her research in Hindi and English. 

Prior to this, she taught at Krea University for two years (2022−2024) as a Visiting Faculty. She has keen interest in expanding the possibility of social science writing in Indian languages and conducts academic writing workshops in Hindi. 

Courses

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Article in English

  • Rani, S. (2021). Corona in the City of Mosquitoes: Exploring Local in the Time of Global. Economic and Political Weekly, 56 (50), 64 – 65. 

Journal Article in Hindi

  • श्वेता रानी. (2022). मानव‑मानवेतर प्रजातियों के अन्तर्सम्बन्ध: दिल्ली में डेंगू के परिप्रेक्ष्य में. सामाजिकी, जुलाई 2022‑जून 2023 (4, संयुक्तांक), 29 – 43. 

Book Chapter in an edited volume

  • Rani, S. (2024). Living with Mosquitoes: Exploring the dengue outbreak in Delhi. In Yasmeen Arif (Ed.), Event-Everyday: Epistemologies and Empiricisms (pp. 248 – 267). Orient Blackswan.

Book Review

  • Rani, S. (2021). Review of the book Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India, edited by Manisha Rao, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 55 (3), 470 – 473.

Online article