Tanya Matthan is an environmental and economic anthropologist focusing on agrarian environments in India. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled 'The Monsoon and the Market: Navigating Risk and Responsibility in Agrarian India', which examines experiences of and engagements with economic and environmental uncertainties among farmers, traders, insurers, and government officials in central India. This work engages with the fields of political ecology, critical agrarian studies, and the anthropology of finance. Writing from this project has been published in Geoforum, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Antipode. She is also interested in anti-caste environmental politics, eco-fascism, and the agri-logistics sector. 

Prior to joining the LSE, Dr. Matthan was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a PhD in Anthropology from UCLA and a MA in Sociology from the University of Delhi.