Nikhil Pandhi (he/they) is a sociocultural anthropologist, queer-feminist researcher, and award-winning anti-caste literary translator from India. His translations have received international acclaim, including the inaugural PEN Presents Award from English PEN. He teaches at Dartmouth College, where he holds a postdoctoral fellowship in the Society of Fellows. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Delhi.