Geeti’s work focuses on the politics of scientific knowledge production, and on how people stake out rigorous and egalitarian alternatives, in a global perspective. Their research brings together institutional analysis, capitalism studies, sexuality and gender, disability, and science and technology studies. Their dissertation, From Mental Disorder to Emotional Data: Epistemic Power Over Sexual Politics, looked at how radical shifts in epistemology can mask the preservation of political order as elites reconfigure biomedical classification to limit the redistribution of power. The manuscript explored this through the case of how sexuality and psychiatric classification remained intertwined even after ‘homosexuality’ stopped being considered a mental disorder in the US. Their ongoing research looks at biosensors and emerging self-tracking norms and devices, focusing on how the production of new forms of value, and new quantitative epistemologies of classification, are changing economies of labour, subjectivity, and consumption among users, service providers, big data private sector organisations, and the state.

They have previously held faculty positions at Ashoka University and O P Jindal Global University, and as a Teaching Fellow at The New School. They have taught courses within Global Politics and Global Studies on sexuality and gender, urbanisation, technopolitics, media and data, and infrastructure. At The New School, Geeti received the Dean’s Fellowship in Politics, the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, and the 2019 Frieda Wunderlich Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation by an International Student. 

Geeti holds a PhD from The New School for Social Research and a BA from Bryn Mawr College.

Geeti’s research, broadly, draws on and brings together work on globalisation and capitalism, politics of knowledge and marginalisation, science and technology studies, and sexualities and genders, to theorise political order and change.

Das, G. “Mostly Normal: American Psychiatric Taxonomy, Sexuality, and Neoliberal Mechanisms of Exclusion”. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 13, 390–401 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-016-0259-4

Past and current courses include “Cities, Infrastructure, and Power”, “Data Politics”, “Political Imaginings from the Global South”, “Global Urban Politics”, “Global LGBTQ Politics”, “Politics in Multiple Frames”, “News Media and Politics”, “Gender Beyond the West”, “Global Gender & Sexuality”, and thesis writing seminars.