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Assistant Professor

chinar.mehta@iiitb.ac.in

Education : Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad)

Chinar Mehta's research interests have to do with interdisciplinary approaches within Science and Technology Studies (STS), Digital & Feminist Media Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Chinar holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Hyderabad and an M.A. from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. During her doctoral studies, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University and a Research Associate at FemLabCo, a researcher-activist cooperative dedicated to optimizing digital platforms for human dignity and collectivization through a worker-centered and feminist approach.

Her academic journey also includes undergraduate training in Information Communication Technology, and she previously worked as a software engineer before transitioning to the social sciences.