Bharat Venkat

Bharat Venkat

Associate Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics and the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology

Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is the director of the UCLA Heat Lab and is an Associate Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment spanning the Institute for Society & Genetics, the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology. He is also affiliated with the UCLA Center for India & South Asia, the Program in Digital Humanities, the Urban Humanities Initiative, and the Luskin Center for Innovation. His research draws on the intellectual and methodological traditions of history and anthropology to study questions related to science, medicine, environment, race, and design.

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