Gayatri Reddy

{{short description|Indian anthropologist}}

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| nationality = Indian

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| education = Delhi University (B.A.)
Columbia University (M.A.)
Emory University (Ph.D., MPH)

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| occupation = Anthropologist, professor

| discipline = Anthropology

| workplaces = University of Illinois at Chicago, Kinsey Institute

| known_for = Contributions to queer and gender studies

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Gayatri Reddy is an Indian anthropologist who has also made contributions to queer and gender studies.

Reddy received her PhD in Anthropology in 2000 from Emory University after M.A in Anthropology from Columbia University and B.A. in Psychology from Delhi University. She is currently an associate professor in Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Reddy has carried out fieldwork on a community of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in India. Her current research is on male queer identity among South Asian immigrants to the US.

Reddy is the Association for Feminist Anthropology Program Chair for 2007,{{citation|title=Business Meeting Minutes |date=November 16, 2006 |url=http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/Business%20Meeting%20Minutes.htm |periodical=Association for Feminist Anthropology |accessdate=2007-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609142728/http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/Business%20Meeting%20Minutes.htm |archivedate=June 9, 2007 }} and a member of the steering committee for the University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training at the Kinsey Institute.{{citation|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/steering%20committee.htm |title=Steering Committee |periodical=Kinsey Institute |accessdate=2007-10-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019032055/http://kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/steering%20committee.htm |archivedate=2007-10-19 }}