Keertana Kannabiran Tella
Other affiliations
St. Anne's College Faculty of Law
Biography
Keertana Kannabiran Tella is a DPhil student in Socio-Legal Studies, supervised by Prof. Nicole Stremlau.
She is most interested in questions of health and law. Her DPhil research, supported by the Faculty of Law, proposes to study meaning-making by legal actors on the questions of reproductive rights and justice, the forms of (in)formal legal ordering this negotiation produces, and its effects on women on the peripheries of public and judicial imagination. From 2023 - 2025, Keertana worked as a research consultant with Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, focusing on the organization's ongoing projects related to public health and social and health policy.
She holds MA degrees from the University of Chicago, (Anthropology, 2023) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India (Development Studies, 2021).