Visiting Scholar, Center for Innovation in Social Science
Ph.D. Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Jaya is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Medicine and Community Health at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a visiting graduate student at the Department of Sociology funded by the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship. Her research interests include ethnographic approaches to evidentiality and truth-making practices in medicine, cultures of medical expertise, and contested illnesses in society. Her dissertation project examines how chronic pain gets constituted as a diagnostic and therapeutic category in India, under conditions of epistemic, ontological and structural uncertainty. She received an MA in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Delhi.