Anindita Majumdar is Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad. She researches commercial surrogacy, kinship, and infertility, and her book Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India (2017) is based on ethnographic research. It was shortlisted for the Bloomsbury LSE Social Anthropology Monograph Award 2016. She contributed to the Oxford India Short Introductions Series on Surrogacy (2019), is on the international advisory board of the journal Medicine, Anthropology, Theory, and is an external member of Center for Reproductive Health (CORTH), University of Sussex. In 2023, she was a Social Sciences and Public Policy Global Visiting Fellow at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London.