Mythri Jegathesan is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Santa Clara University. Her research interests include plantations, work, gender, and labor materialities as they relate to projects of nationalism, state-building, and human rights. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University and is currently co-editor of Anthropology of Work Review and Secretary of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS).

Her book, Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka (2019) is an ethnography of plantation life and work in the context of ethnonationalist violence and civil war in Sri Lanka. Her work has appeared in Himal Southasian, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, SAMAJ, Dialectical Anthropology, Commoning Ethnography, e-flux journal, Polity, Colomboscope Interdisciplinary Art Festival, and Scroll Projects on Paper.