Yogita SURESH
(Research Assistant, January 2024 – present)
Biography:
Yogita Suresh is a graduate student at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, Department of Sociology. Her doctoral thesis explores the multiple constructions of “social good” in science and technical education in India, with a particular focus on the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). She has a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Ambedkar University, Delhi. For her Master’s dissertation, she conducted an ethnography of a technical institute in India to study the intersections of gender and technology in engineering education. She is a part-time research assistant at CSH for the project, “Women and Science,” under the supervision of Prof. Odile Henry. For this project, she is involved in preparing the literature review for women in engineering, conducting interviews with women doctors and engineers, and analyzing primary quantitative data. Yogita is also an executive member of the Science and Technology Studies India Network (STS-IN) and a co-editor of the STS-IN blog, Nexus. Her research interests lie in the fields of STS, gender and technology, sociology of science, history of science, and sociology of education.
Publications:
- Suresh, Yogita. 2023. “Battles Over Social Justice, Caste, and Neo-Liberalism: A Review of ‘The Battle for IITs: A Defense of Meritocracy.’” Engineering Studies, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2023.2225776
- Mishra, Paro, and Yogita Suresh. 2020. “Datafied Body Projects in India: Femtech and the Rise of Reproductive Surveillance in the Digital Era. “Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 27, no. 4: 596-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2021.2002010
Book Chapters - Suresh, Yogita. 2024. “Women in Higher Education in India and the Fight for Democratisation.” In Dear Higher Education: Letters from the Social Justice Mountain, edited by Menah Pratt, Mercedes Ramírez Fernández, and Michele Deramo. University of Minnesota Libraries. https://open.lib.umn.edu/dearhighereducation/chapter/women-in-higher-education-in-india/
