I am an economic, political, and urban anthropologist who conducts research in South Asia and more recently in Southeast Asia. My research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of urban and political anthropology, anthropology of infrastructure, roads, and mobilities, cultural geography, and gender studies.

Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and …

Tarini Bedi, PhD, Professor, Anthropology and Director of the Methods and Mobilities Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected]

Tarini Bedi, PhD. Professor and NSF Program Director. Anthropology, Sociocultural

On Feb. 5, 2025, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences had the honor of awarding Tarini Bedi, Ph.D., with the LAS Distinguished Professor award. This award recognizes Dr. Bedi for advancing ethnographic research through a cultural anthropologist's perspective, and it provided her with the opportunity to present her current work during her ...

In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary trade for more than a century.

Dr. Tarini Bedi Professor of Anthropology University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Refer to my CV & you can follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn I am a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I am …

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago.

TARINI BEDI Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 W. Harrison Street Chicago, IL 60607 Tel: 773-715-3569 [email protected] EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago 2004 M.A., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago