Sayori Ghoshal is a Research Scholar at the Department of Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, in Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her research in the history of science intersects with history of colonialism, critical religious studies and postcolonial studies in modern India. After completing her PhD in modern South Asian Studies from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS), Columbia University, Sayori was a postdoctoral fellow at Krea University, India and at the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology (IHPST), University of Toronto. Her research has been supported by grants from the International Network for Research in Science and Belief in Society (INSBS), 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.

She is currently preparing her monograph, titled A Sense for Statistics: Constructing Religious Minority in Modern India. It 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.

Select Publications:
2024. “Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity and Science in India, 1910s-40s”. Isis. 115(1). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/729014

2021. “Race in South Asia: Colonialism, Nationalism and Modern Science”. History Compass 19 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12647

Elise Burton and S. Ghoshal, “The History of Science through the Prism of Race Science”, British Journal for the History of Science Themes.