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In Memoriam: Megha Sharma Sehdev (1981-2023)

Dr. Megha Sharma Sehdev was a brilliant and creative scholar of law, violence, and care who died on August 17, 2023. Her work and interests focused on the sensory nature of law, as well as feminist methodologies. Megha’s ability to connect friends and colleagues globally was recognized by those around her; her ability to bring people together and highlight unexpected overlaps facilitated deep discussion and exchange. Her attention to power, aesthetics, violence, and law made significant interventions in and beyond anthropology. Those who knew her will remember her deep curiosity, her sharp wit, and her love of the poetic.

Megha graduated with a B.A. in South Asian Studies from UBC in 2005 and received an M.A. in Medical Anthropology from McGill University in 2009 and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2018. After, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Tufts University, McGill University, and l’Université du Québec à Montréal (CRIDAQ). Megha had been recruited by the University of Toronto at Mississauga to join their Language Studies Department at the time of her death.

For more, see:

https://anthropology.jhu.edu/2023/08/27/obituary-megha-sharma-sehdev-1981-2023/

https://cridaq.uqam.ca/nouvelles/in-memoriam-megha-sharma-sehdev-1981-2023/

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