Gaurav Datta
Neuroscientist and Visual Researcher from India based in North Dakota
Gaurav Datta (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher from Kolkata, India, currently based at the University of North Dakota, USA.
His visual practices delves into the lived experience of mental illness, substance use, HIV/AIDS and homelessness.
Drawing from his own lived experience and building on methods in neuroscience, visual ethnography, transcultural psychiatry, and narrative medicine, his collaborative visual work explores trauma and resilience through idioms of distress and practices of healing in the face of various social challenges. He is particularly interested in how the visual metaphors and motifs of these experiences are informed by different cultural contexts.
With extensive experience in biomedical research and ethnography in both clinical and non-clinical environments in India and the US, he adopts a multidisciplinary lens to approach these topics in more comprehensive and nuanced ways.
His work has been published in academic journals including Medicine Anthropology Theory and Anthropology and Humanism, magazines such as Mad In South Asia and Intima, and exhibited at the North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival. He is also the co-organizer of the Visual Research Conference, Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
I can be reached by e-mail at illuzions@gmail.com
