Sayori Ghoshal

Sayori Ghoshal studied modern history of South Asia, obtaining her PhD in 2022 from Columbia University in the City of New York. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science & Technology (IHPST), University of Toronto, and at Krea University, India. Her research in the history of science intersects with the history of colonialism, critical religious studies, and postcolonial studies. Sayori’s research has been supported by grants from the International Network for Research in Science and Belief in Society (INSBS), the University of Birmingham, UK, and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), Columbia University. Her research articles have appeared in History Compass, Isis and the British Journal for the History of Science Themes. Sayori is currently working on her first monograph, A Sense for Statistics: Constructing Religious Minority in Modern India, which traces the historical development of statistical sciences, including race science, demography, and applied statistics, and their impact on community identity formation in colonial and postcolonial India. She currently serves as a co-chair of the Forum for the History of Science in Asia, under the History of Science Society.