Education

I am doctoral candidate studying medical anthropology and the intersections of health and culture. Research foci include: reproduction, bodies, public health, diaspora and transnationalism, social media and digital health, among others.

Ph.D candidate (Anthropology)

University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Thematic Focus: Inequality, Health and Culture
Family Matters: Pregnancy Loss in the Punjabi Canadian Diaspora
Supervisor: Dr. Lisa M. Mitchell

M.A. (Anthropology) 2016

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Thesis: “Disclosure of Psychological Distress by University Students on an Anonymous Social Media Application: An Online Ethnographic Study”
Supervisor: Dr. Stacie Burke

B.A. (Anthropology and English with distinction) 2013
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

B.Sc. (Psychology, Chemistry Minor) 2011
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Research Manager - Coastal Research, Education, and Advocacy Network (CREAN), Victoria, BC (2020-2023)

Research Coordinator - Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group, Victoria, BC (2017-2019)

Research Assistant - Inside Clinical Trials Study, University of British Columbia (2019)

Research Assistant - NETOLNEW - Indigenous Language Revitalization Research Partnership, University of Victoria (2019)

Research Assistant - Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR), University of Manitoba (2015-2016)

Research Project Development - Hygiene Promotion among Adolescents, Program Development, Lima, Peru (2015)

Research Assistant – Indigenous Public Health Research, Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative, University of Manitoba (2014-2015)

Research Assistant - Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba (2014-2016)

Research Assistant - Clinical Institute of Applied Research and Education, Victoria General Hospital, Manitoba (2008)

Conference Presentations

Lotay, Anureet. 2021. “Family Matters: Belonging and the Politics of Reproduction in the Punjabi Canadian Diaspora.” Chronic Living: Quality, Vitality and Health in the 21st century. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

—. 2019. “Family Matters: Pregnancy Loss and the Punjabi Canadian Diaspora.” AAA/CASCA Joint Conference. November 23, 2019. (Session: “Beyond Binaries: Thinking Through Difference, Entanglements and Complexity in Reproductive Lives”; Organizer: Anureet Lotay)

—. 2019. “Making Families: Belonging and the Politics of Reproduction in the Punjabi-Canadian Diaspora.” 5th Cascadia Medical Anthropology Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. November 20, 2019.

—. 2019. “#Iam1in4: Social Media and Pregnancy Loss Stigma.” Currents in Anthropology Conference, UVic. April 4, 2019. Victoria, BC. (Winner of Graduate Podium Presentation Award)

—. 2019. “Family Matters: Pregnancy Loss among Indo-Canadians.” Future Horizons in Critical Medical Humanities Symposium. March 27, 2019. Seattle, WA

—. 2019. “#Iam1in4: How Social Media Activism is Challenging Pregnancy Loss Stigma.” Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, Portland, OR, March 22, 2019.

—. 2018. “I had a miscarriage and I was relieved”: Resisting normative understandings of the miscarriage experience. AAA, San Jose, CA, November 14, 2018.

—. 2018. “I had a miscarriage and I was relieved”: Challenging dominant narratives of the miscarriage experience.” CASCA, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, May 16, 2018.

—. 2017. “Double Exposure: Exposing the self in online social spaces” (presentation, American Ethnological Society Conference, Stanford, CA, March 31, 2017).

—. 2017. “’Who needs friends when you’ve got anonymous social media platforms’: An Online Ethnographic Study of Distress Disclosure by University Students”. Poster presentation, Society of Psychological Anthropology Biannual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 10, 2017). (Winner of Outstanding Poster Award)

—. 2014. "Mastery through Technology: Using New Media Technology to Explore the Writing Process with Students" (presented at the International Writing Centers Association Conference, Orlando, Florida, October 30-November 1, 2014)