She received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2006. Dave’s book, Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (Duke University Press, 2012), won the Association for Queer Anthropology’s Ruth Benedict Prize for outstanding monograph in 2013. Dave’s second book is tentatively titled The Social Skin: Humans and Animals in India. It engages posthumanist explorations on humans and animals in India. Her research interests include ethics, activism, gender and sexuality, and affect theory. Interview with Naisargi Dave