Fellow
Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies & Health (CORTH)
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Maya Unnithan is a Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and the Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies & Health (CORTH). Maya’s work foregrounds how gender, power, and rights intersect in reproductive lives and how communities navigate the ethical and political terrain of claiming autonomy over their bodies and futures.
She is currently pursuing a project on Reproductive Freedom funded by the Leverhulme Trust [Leverhulme Trust major research fellowship: Reproductive freedom and ethics: A comparative project in the making of self (2025-2027)] and a collaborative research program on Contragestive Time supported by the Wellcome Trust [Wellcome Trust grant: Contragestive time: Pregnant uncertainties in fertility control (2025-2030)]. She advises the European PERIODS project on work in India and more broadly on re-imagining discourse on gender, rights, and reproductive justice.
To read more about Maya please see: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p2755-maya-unnithan