Durgesh Solanki is a medical sociologist whose research examines the racialized production of scientific knowledge. His doctoral work, completed at Johns Hopkins University, explores how dermatologists conceptualize skin to construct racial and ethnic categories. In other research, he has focused on the transnational flow of colonial disease governance and the comparative study of race and caste. During his postdoctoral fellowship Durgesh will contribute to the new Center for Humanities-based Health AI, jointly led by Rice MHRI and Baylor College of Medicine.