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Mihir Pandya is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the Yadunandan Center for India Studies. He is a cultural and historical anthropologist with an AB, AM, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He also served as a fellow in Aerospace History with the American Historical Association and NASA and as a postdoctoral fellow in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Southern California. 

His research and teaching interests include cultures of technology, urbanism and ecology, automation and its futures, and diversity and generation.

He has several ongoing research projects about California. The first examines how large-scale defense projects were made and kept secret in the late Cold War. The second explores the ecological legacies of aerospace, oil, chemical manufacturing and mining in Southern California. The third tracks the effects of a new era of automation in the San Pedro Bay ports and its neighboring communities.