{{short description|Indian anthropologist}} {{About||the former IPL owner and socialite|Gayatri Reddy (socialite)}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Gayatri Reddy | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|6|23}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | education = Delhi University (B.A.) <br/> Columbia University (M.A.) <br/> Emory University (Ph.D., MPH) | alma_mater = | occupation = Anthropologist, professor | discipline = Anthropology | workplaces = University of Illinois at Chicago, Kinsey Institute | known_for = Contributions to queer and gender studies }}
'''Gayatri Reddy''' (born 23 June 1982) is an Indian anthropologist who has also made contributions to queer and gender studies.
Reddy received her PhD in Anthropology in 2000 from Emory University after M.A in Anthropology from Columbia University and B.A. in Psychology from Delhi University. She is currently an associate professor in Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Reddy has carried out fieldwork on a community of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in India. Her current research is on male queer identity among South Asian immigrants to the US.
Reddy is the Association for Feminist Anthropology Program Chair for 2007,<ref name="afa">{{citation|title=Business Meeting Minutes |date=November 16, 2006 |url=http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/Business%20Meeting%20Minutes.htm |periodical=Association for Feminist Anthropology |accessdate=2007-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609142728/http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/Business%20Meeting%20Minutes.htm |archivedate=June 9, 2007 }}</ref> and a member of the steering committee for the University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training at the Kinsey Institute.<ref name="kinsey">{{citation|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/steering%20committee.htm |title=Steering Committee |periodical=Kinsey Institute |accessdate=2007-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019032055/http://kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/steering%20committee.htm |archivedate=2007-10-19 }}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/people/faculty/reddy/reddy.html University of Illinois bio page] * [http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/people/faculty/reddy/reddyCV.pdf Gayatri Reddy Curriculum Vitae] * Reviews of ''With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India'' in the ''[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/507813 American Journal of Sociology]'', ''[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4622930 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute]'', ''[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30114241 Journal of the History of Sexuality]'', ''[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20459144 Feminist Studies]'', ''[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.revproxy.brown.edu/doi/10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.1027/pdf American Ethnologist]''
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