Amrita Pande is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focuses on transnational reproduction, repro-genetic justice, and multimodal ethnography. Her work has appeared in many journals including Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Gender and Society, Journal of Gender Studies, Medical Anthropology, Critical Social Policy, International Migration Review, Qualitative Sociology, Feminist Studies, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Anthropologica, PhiloSOPHIA, Reproductive BioMedicine, Critical Times, and in numerous edited volumes, encyclopedias and handbooks. Her most recent books include Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University (With Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya, Wits Univ Press, 2023), Birth Controlled: Selective Reproduction and Neo Eugenics in India and South Africa (Manchester Univ Press, 2022), and Scripting defiance: Four Sociological Vignettes (With Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Wiebke Keim, and Nicos Trimikliniotis, Tulika Books, 2022). Her book Wombs in Labor: Transnational Surrogacy in India (Columbia University Press 2014) has been made into a multimedia performance, Made in India: Notes from a Baby farm (co-produced by Riksteatern, Sweden and Global Studies Production, Denmark), which she performs across the world. 

Over the past two decades she has conducted a “mobile ethnography” of global fertility clinics in India, Cambodia, Ghana, and South Africa. She is compiling this work into her next monograph for MIT Press’s Labor and Technology Series. Pande has written for national newspapers across the world and has appeared in Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed on the BBC, Sarah Carey’s Newstalk on Irish radio, DR2 Deadline on Danish National television, TRT world, Turkey, and on SABC2 and SAfM, South Africa to discuss this work. She has held visiting fellowships and professorships at the Center for Innovation in Social Science, Boston University, Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies Research center, Brandeis University, and the Institut Convergence Migrations, Paris. In 2022 she started the Women Walk at Midnight (WWaM) chapter of South Africa, to normalize the presence of women in public spaces at night, and to insert feminist joy into the nights of violent cities.