He received his PhD in Anthropology from Brown University. His major research projects employ ethnographic methods to detail the dynamic relations between people, their lived environments, and chronic illness in contemporary urban India. His book, Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India (Duke University Press, May 2016) examines the relationships forged between food, fat, the body, and urban life in light of India’s rising rates of obesity and diabetes. It focuses conceptually on the phenomenon of metabolism. In March 2015, Solomon received a NSF CAREER Award from the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program for his current research project. He is now studying how traffic on Mumbai’s roads and railways works as the context, cause, and consequence of bodily injury and trauma.