Gayatri Reddy is an anthropologist of India who has also made contributions to queer and gender studies. Reddy received her PhD in Anthropology in 2000 from Emory University and is currently an assistant professor in Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Reddy has carried out fieldwork on a community of hijras in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in India. Her current research is on male queer identity among South Asian immigrants to the US.