Pariroo Rattan is an incoming Weinberg College Postdoctoral Fellow in Science in Human Culture and the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University.
She is a recent PhD graduate from Harvard University, where she has been a Fellow at the HKS Science, Technology and Society (STS) program and received a secondary field in Music. Her doctoral work studies the moral politics of the digital economy in India, for which she conducts ethnography on the adoption of digital biometrics and payment systems by street vendors in New Delhi.
She also works comparatively on citizen resistance to legal data regulation regimes across the US, EU and China. Apart from digitization, Pariroo is writing about topics relating to the law such as the politics of evidence in the Harvard affirmative action lawsuit, and on the acoustic and sound politics of the urban economy. Her work has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, the Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship and the Harvard Asia Center among others. She is a founding member of the Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) network.