Svati Shah is an Associate Professor Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with adjunct appointments in the Departments of Anthropology and Afro-American Studies. They also serve as a Visiting Professor II at the University of Bergen in Norway and as a Research Associate in the University of Pretoria’s Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development. They work on questions of sexuality, gender, governance, recognition, and caste capitalism in India. Their first book Street Corner Secrets (Duke University Press 2014) examined sex work, urban informal economies and labor migration in the city of Mumbai. Their current work explores contemporary queer and transgender social movements in India, and their relationships to the history of India’s autonomous ‘new left,’ which emerged in the wake of the Indian Emergency (1975-77). Their articles have appeared in a range of scholarly journals, including Antipode, the Economic and Political Weekly, Interventions, and South Atlantic Quarterly. In addition to the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Shah has also taught at NYU, Wellesley College, and Duke University, and has served as a research associate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.