Smruthi Bala Kannan

Smruthi Bala Kannan

Postdoctoral Scholar, Public Health Sciences

Smruthi Bala Kannan’s research explores entanglements between environmental concerns and human health in young people’s everyday negotiations in postcolonial contexts. Her Ph.D. work is an ethnography of adolescent schoolchildren’s relational experiences with discourses of cleanliness and hygiene in Tamil Nadu, India. Her broad research interests include understanding body, material, and space through a critical childhood studies perspective. In her current research, she studies bicycling use, access, and barriers in cities in South Asia.

 

Meet Our Members