Rajani Bhatia

Rajani Bhatia (she/her) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. She joined the core faculty after serving as visiting assistant professor in the women’s and gender studies program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and receiving her PhD from the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. 

Bhatia’s research interests lie in developing new approaches to feminist theorizations of reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. Topically, she has focused on issues that lie at the intersection of gender, population, environment, health, bioethics and biomedicine. Through engagement as a scholar-activist within international and national women's health and reproductive justice movements, Dr. Bhatia contributed to feminist analysis of global population control, right-wing environmentalism, coercive practices and unethical testing related to contraceptive and sterilization technologies both inside and outside the U.S. 

She is currently writing a scholarly book forthcoming in the Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century book series by University of California Press. Bhatia is author of "Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context" (University of Washington Press, 2018) and has recent articles appearing in Environmental Politics, Social Science & Medicine, Science, Technology, & Human Values, and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. She is also co-editor of Pop Panic, a new collaborative substack. 

She teaches diverse courses on health, activism, the environment, and feminist science and technology studies.