Amit Prasad teaches in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is also an affiliate faculty of the Atlanta Global Studies Center and the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. His research is aimed at excavating the history of the present in relation to post/de-colonial, transnational, and global aspects of science, technology, and medicine. In particular, he investigates how genealogies of colonialism continue to animate present day values, norms, ideologies, and practices, including in our own field. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Institute of Indian Studies, among others and he has published in a number of journals, including Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology & Human Values, Theory, Culture, and Society, Cultural Geographies, Technology & Culture. He is the author of Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India (MIT) and Science Studies Meets Colonialism (Polity). Presently, he is writing a book on his decade long study of a stem cell therapy clinic in India that is tentatively titled Globalization in a Laboratory. He is also an editor of the journal Science, Technology & Society (Sage).