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Sandra Bärnreuther is an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Lucerne. Her teaching and research interests revolve around the fields of medical anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of the digital, and anthropology of knowledge. In her current project, she examines data-driven development in India and Kenya. Sandra is the author of “Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India,” a historically informed ethnography of IVF in India.

After studying at several universities in Germany, India, and the USA, Sandra Bärnreuther received her PhD from the South Asia Institute and the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg. She taught at Heidelberg, the University of Chicago, and the University of Zurich and was a visiting researcher at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She is currently a member of the Swiss Young Academy.

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