Manjari Mahajan is an Assistant Professor for the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. She received her PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in 2008. She holds a MSc in Science Policy from SPRU at Sussex University, and a BA from Harvard University. Before joining the New School, she had a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).  Mahajan's interests are in international health, science and technology studies, and development policy.  She has conducted research on the AIDS epidemics in South Africa and India, and the impact of global intellectual property regimes on public health and biomedical research.  She is currently working on a book manuscript that is provisionally titled The Anatomy of Humanitarian Emergencies: Science, Citizenship, and Global Governance in the AIDS Epidemics of India and South Africa.