https://www.kristingupta.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2021-04-19 https://www.kristingupta.com/home daily 0.75 2021-01-11 https://www.kristingupta.com/about daily 0.75 2022-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f60ee6aa5e0f7285716d274/1618779375543-GCOCBWH4Z5BEYZ4O5GX9/FDBB6C6B-9AE4-410F-8C30-1EC40714B425.jpg About - Cultural Anthropologist // Researcher I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, where I specialize in death and dying, queer theory, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology. My dissertation project, “A Life Cut Short: American Deathcare, Life Expectancy, and the Quantification of Progress” ethnographically focuses on death doulas and how they conceptualize the life course in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With generous support from the National Science Foundation, my research examines emergent deathcare practices that resist biomedical understandings of death and the breathless futurology of life extension technologies. Ultimately, I am interested in tracing reorientations towards mortality in a cultural context that has largely been adverse to death and the vulnerability it entails. This work is largely based in Seattle, but is also heavily informed by fieldwork I have conducted in Los Angeles and Boston over the past three years. At Rice, I am a Media Specialist for the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and a former coordinator of The Ethnography Studio. I also serve as the Chief Contributing Editor for the Society for Cultural Anthropology and am the graduate representative for the Association for Queer Anthropology. 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