Khyati Tripathi is a psychologist and anthropologist by training with over thirteen years of research experience in death studies. She is currently a research associate at Harvard and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University, in January 2023. Previously, she was selected for the Commonwealth Scholarship (2016–17), which enabled her to pursue her PhD in split-site mode at the University of Delhi as well as the University of London. Khyati uses a multi-disciplinary lens spanning psychology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis to look at different aspects of death. For her PhD, she focused on the cultural construction of dead bodies through death rituals and mortuary techniques in Hinduism and Judaism.

Moderator Biography
Justin TSE is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture (Education) in the College of Integrative Studies at Singapore Management University. He was lead editor of Theological Reflections on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Palgrave, 2016) and is working on the manuscript The Secular as Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and Pacific Secularities (in preliminary agreement, University of Notre Dame Press). In addition to Big Questions, he teaches a module entitled Publics and Privates on the Pacific Rim.