Meredith McLaughlin

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Meredith McLaughlin is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in welfare, ethics, political futures, and decolonial thought. Her ethnographic research in India and the United States asks how people imagine the future of social policy and the norms of an equitable economy.

Before coming to USC, Meredith was a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Pitzer College and a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge, with appointments in the Department of Anthropology and The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute. She received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Yale University and her MPhil from the University of Oxford.

Journal Article

• McLaughlin, M. A. (2022). Shifting terms: Development discourses and moral imaginaries in Indian state service provision. Critique of Anthropology. Vol. 42 (3), pp. 254-269.