Dr. Vora’s current research includes ongoing writing and publishing on artificial intelligence and automation through the lens of STS and critical race and gender theories, extending research published in the book Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures.

A second book project, supported by a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Studies award (2021-2024) is tentatively titled, Sensitive Subjects. It places contemporary narratives of illness by patients facing racism and sexism in their daily lives within an analysis of the history of the concept of autoimmunity and contemporary practices of healthcare self-monitoring to understand the potential for patient-physician co-production of medical knowledge.

Kalindi Vora is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor from the University of Minnesota Press (2015), and co-author with Dr. Neda Atanasoski (UC Santa Cruz) of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures from Duke University Press (2018) and of Technoprecarious from MIT Press (2020) as a member of the Precarity Lab. Her collected work on transnational gestational surrogacy in India is published together in Reimagining Reproduction: Surrogacy, Labour and Technologies of Human Reproduction (2022).

Kalindi Vora has a PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz (Feminist Studies), an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and a BA in Music/Religion from Wesleyan University. She held the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley Anthropology. Prior to Yale, she was the Director of the Feminist Research Institute and Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at The University of California Davis and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego. Her research has been supported by several National Science Foundation grants, the Mellon Foundation, Hellman fellowships, as well as University of California Humanities Research Institute fellowships. She is currently the Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn’s Center for Science and Thought with the “Desireable AI” project and has been a visiting fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University in Luneburg, Germany and at GEXcel at Linköping University in Sweden.