Media
Public Scholarship & Engagement
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Apr 22, 2026
Sarah Lamb presents her work on Death Matters: “Orienting Toward and Away from Life’s Ending in Older Age” MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Chicago History of Medicine Project, 2025-2026 Lecture Series on “Death, Dying, and Beyond. (51 min video in link)
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Mar 22, 2024
Sarah Lamb was a guest on the webinar, Defying Gravity for an episode titled ‘Growing Older: Our Way Is Not the Only Way.” (56 min video in link)
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Nov 10, 2023
Kati Chitrakorn, of Vogue Business, interviews Sarah Lamb in an article titled "Why beauty can't quit talking about anti-ageing."
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Oct 6, 2023
Sarah Lamb interviewed for an article in Livemint, an Indian financial News platform, titled “The loneliness of the elderly in India,” discussing the relationship between loneliness and India’s need for affordable old age homes and services.
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Jul 15, 2023
Sarah Lamb was quoted in an article from The Washington Post, "TikTok's latest aging effect reveals America's obsession with youth" about age filters on the social media platform and Americans' obsession with looking youthful.
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Nov 26, 2022
Ketaki Chowkhani of The Hindu, an Indian English-language newspaper, reviews Sarah Lamb’s book Being Single in India.
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Oct 26, 2022
Sarah Lamb presents her work on Successful Aging's Global Moment: Visions and Dilemmas of Aging Well at the 58th Annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture hosted by the University of Rochester. (1hr 25 min video in link)
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Sep 9, 2022
Host Rachel Pagones of the New Books Network interviews Sarah Lamb about her book Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession. (59 min audio file in link)
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Jul 26, 2022
Host Garima Jaju of the New Books Network interviews Sarah Lamb about her book Being Single in India. (52 min audio file in link)
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Mar 2, 2020
Sarah Lamb was a panelist for the WBUR CitySpace Forum on the topic of “Age is Not a Medical Condition: Healthy Aging after 50.” Boston, MA. (1hr 53 min video in link)
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Apr 3, 2017
A local Boston paper, The Patriot Ledger, published a video of one of the interviews for Sarah Lamb’s research on aging. The post was titled: Video: Brandeis professor interviews 105-year-old Quincy woman. with 105-year-old Quincy woman.
Fieldwork Photos
Sarah's first fieldwork residence in Mangaldihi 1989-1990
Khudi Thakrun ("Grandmother little speck of rice"), 97, the oldest woman in the village of Mangaldihi, featured in White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, 1990
Khudi Thakrun and her sister in Mangaldihi, 1990
Death ritual in Mangaldihi, 1990
Death ritual in Mangaldihi, 1990
Death ritual in Mangaldihi, 1990
Death ritual in Mangaldihi, 1990
Wedding Car in Mangaldihi, 1990
Mangaldihi's main beggar featured in White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, 1990
Group of elite women living in a posh new senior residence in the suburbs of Kolkata, 2022
A group of older women receiving free noon meal at Calcutta Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, featured in Aging and the Indian Diaspora, 2006
Older Dalit widow wearing a colorful sari despite dominant caste norms of elder women wearing white in Mangaldihi, 1990
Older woman asking for alms in Nabadwip, a holy city for Krishna followers, 1990
Street shrine in Kolkata, 2006
Older woman in a old age home featured in Aging and the Indian Diaspora, 2006
Tea vendor in the outskirts of Kolkata, 2005
Woman washing dishes in a pond in Mangaldihi, 1990
Senior Residence Home in Kolkata featured in Aging in the Indian Diaspora, 2006
Fishing for dinner in Kolkata, 2005
Anti-war posters in Kolkata
Renuka-di at an old age home, featured in Aging and the Indian Diaspora, 2005
Varanasi ghat, one of the most sacred sites for death rituals, 1990
Varanasi, 1990
Varanasi, 1990
Pilgrimage from Mangaldihi to Puri, 1990
Syamcand in the main Brahman temple in Mangaldihi, 2006
Nayani's household shrine in Kolkata featured in Being Single in India, 2015
Malobika at the Government of West Bengal Working Girls Hostel featured in Being Single in India, 2018
Malobika at the Government of West Bengal Working Girls Hostel featured in Being Single in India, 2022
Government of West Bengal Working Girls Hostel featured in Being Single in India, 2022
Old age home temple in Kolkata, 2006
Medha and single woman friends featured in Being Single in India, Kolkata, 2016
Koyra Bou featured in both White Saris and Sweet Mangoes and "Being a Widow and Other Life Stories." approximately 2015. She died at 100 in 2025.
A single woman in her 40s who moved into an old-age home as a safe place to live in 2006. One inspiration for Sarah's later singlehood research
Bengali widow who wears red, defying cultural norms where widows traditionally wear white and especially avoid red (the color of marriage and sexuality), 2020
Bengali widow who wears red, defying cultural norms where widows traditionally wear white and especially avoid red (the color of marriage and sexuality), 2020
Elder Bengali woman cooking puffed rice (muri) in Mangaldihi, 1990
Mithu and Ma featured in White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, 2006
