Originally from India, Professor Joshi earned a double MA in Social Work with a specialization in Reproductive Health and worked in the development sector on preventive health interventions in five different states in North India. Professor Joshi shifted her focus from an interventionist to an interpretive frame through Cultural/Medical Anthropology. She finished a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Rutgers in 2017 and did research on issues of childlessness, reproduction, parenting and demography in Berlin, Germany.

• PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  
• MA, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  
• MA, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
  
• BA, Pune University

Undergraduate Courses

• APY 105 | Introduction to Anthropology
• APY 106 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  
• APY 275 | Culture, Health and Illness

• 2020 Becoming fathers in a ‘child-friendlier’ Germany: male infertility, reproductive visibility, and the labor of paternity, NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, DOI: 10.1080/18902138.2020.1713582 
• 2017 Berlin’s Hypervisible Children: “German Child-Unfriendliness” amidst Demographic Anxieties, in Reimagining the Child: Proceedings of the 2016 Rutgers-Camden Graduate Student Conference in Childhood Studies. Edited by J Burton and K Fredricks
• 2014 Interview with Didier Fassin accompanying publication of “True life, real lives: Revisiting the boundaries between ethnography and fiction,” American Ethnologist, Vol. 40 (1), 40-55
• 2008 “‘Correcting’ the Reproductive ‘Impairment’: Infertility Treatment Seeking Experiences of Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums,” Sociological Bulletin, 57 (2), May-August 2008, pp. 155-172
• 2006 “Dis-rupted Reproduction: Understanding Experiences of Childlessness among Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums,” (M.Phil Dissertation) Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai