Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Summer Fellows

Osama Ahmad

PhD Candidate in History
Summer Fellow 2023
Project Title: City of Knowledge: Lahore’s Urdu Bazaar as engine of Print, Urbanity and Self-fashioning

Muntazir Ali

PhD Candidate in Religious Studies
Summer Fellow 2023
Project Title: Chitral, 1920-1969: Reorientation, Accession, and Integration

Arman Deendar

Summer Fellow 2023
Project Title: Anti-colonial resistance and Decolonization in Goa

Justin Dyer

Summer Fellow 2023
Intern, Peak Sustainability Ventures

Michael Neubauer

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2023
Project Title: Caste-based Preferences, Social Pressure and (Statistical) Discrimination in the Labor Market in Village India

Hamsa Shanmugam

Summer Fellow 2023
Project Title: Thēvāram: A Musicological Analysis

Pamudu Tennakoon

PhD Candidate in History of Art & Architecture
Summer Fellow 2021, 2023
Project Title: Decolonization and Ruination: Archival Research in the UK

2022

Muhammad Omar Afzaal

PhD Candidate in Political Science
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Picking Your Battles: A Story of Pakistan’s Perceptions

Jocelyn Bell

PhD Candidate in Sociology
Summer Fellow 2018, 2022
2022 Project Title: Reimagining within-movement conflict: Ideology and the anti-sex trafficking movement
2018 Project Title: Local-Global Connections: Global Governance and the Indian Anti-Sex Trafficking Movement

Zehra Hashmi

Zehra Hashmi

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Data Infrastructures for Surveillance in Postcolonial Pakistan

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Aarushi Kalra

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Hate at Scale: Wealth Shocks, Backlash, and Hate Speech on Social Media

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Ruchi Mahadeshwar

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2021, 2022
2022 Project Title: The Impacts of Diversity in Mumbai's Annual Public Housing Program
2021 Project Title: The Impacts of Socioeconomic Mixing in Mumbai's Annual Public Housing Program

Subadevan Mahadevan

PhD Candidate in Sociology
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: A subnational comparative Analysis of Decarbonization in India

Radhika Moral

PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2020, 2022
2022 Project Title: Pre-dissertation fieldwork "Silk Frontiers: Supply Chains, Gendered Labor, and the Politics of Belonging in Northeast India"
2020 Project Title: "Shifting Sands: Migrants and Mobilities in the Brahmaputra Valley"

Beenish Pervaiz

PhD Candidate in Political Science
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: "Old Wars, New Tools: How alliance politics shapes vertical nuclear proliferation and technological diffusion in Pakistan & India."

Kanha Prasad '21

Summer Fellow 2019, 2022
Gujarati Language Training for Research on Gandhi

Alex Zhou

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Beneficiary Targeting in Mumbai's Subsidized-Housing Program

2021

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Tara Dhaliwal

PhD Candidate in Religious Studies
Summer Fellow 2021
Project Title: Lives on the Periphery: Social Roles of Women in Pre-Colonial Punjab

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Ravi Krishnaswami

PhD candidate in Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Summer Fellow 2021
Project Title: Body, Home, World: Original Music, Phase 2

2020

Arnav Adhikari

PhD Candidate in English
Summer Fellow 2020
Language Training | Zabaan School for Languages

Nabila Islam

PhD Candidate in Sociology
Summer Fellow 2020
Project Title: Imam Training Programs and the Islam Problem: Contrasting Evidence from Europe and Bangladesh

Bhanu Joshi

PhD Candidate in Political Science
Summer Fellow 2020
Project Title: Variation in Services in India Cities

Geetika Nagpal

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2020
Project Title: Impacts of Sewer Provision and the Last Mile Problem

Ike Uri

PhD Candidate in Sociology
Summer Fellow 2020
Project Title: Technocratic knowledge and neoliberal planning: the role of consultants in urban climate adaptation in India

2019

Imshan Dhrolia

Brown Alpert Medical Student '22
Summer Fellow 2019
Motherhood in Limbo...Rohingya Mothers in Cox Bazaar Bangladesh

Liam Greenwell '20

Summer Fellow 2019
Project Title: Performance of Resistance: Art in Northeast India

Nomaan Hasan

PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2019
Project Title: The Eventfulness and the Ordinariness of Violence in Uttar Pradesh, India

Alex Phillips '21

Summer Fellow 2019
Intern: NIMHANS | Epidemiology of Substance Abuse

Ieva Zumbyte

PhD Candidate in Sociology
Summer Fellow 2018, 2019, 2020
2018 Project Title: Pre-dissertation fieldwork "Childcare regimes in urban India"
2019 Project Title: Varieties of Public Childcare in Urban India

2018

Christopher Lingelbach '19

Summer Fellow 2018
Project Title: Environmental Subjectivity Creation through Community-based Development Organization WASH Intervention

Nasifa Nur

Resident Physician of Internal Medicine
Summer Fellow 2018
Project Title: Disease Burden Analysis and Analysis of Diphtheria Outbreak in Displaced Rohingya from Myanmar in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Ahona Palchoudhuri

PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2018
Open Graduate Fellow in Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Aarti Sethi

Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Summer Fellow 2018
Project Title: Kapsi Mata - Cotton Fever in Central India

Anabelle Suitor

PhD Candidate of Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2018

Areas of Interest: Fisheries, labor, caste, ritual, multispecies relations, art as ethnographic method, Bangladesh, Indian Ocean.

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Sagar Wadhwa

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2018
Project Title: The Impact of Demonetization on Household Income and Consumption

Kudrat Wadhwa

Kudrat Wadhwa '19

Summer Fellow 2018
Project Title: Investigating the Economic Aspect(s) of Militarisation in Kashmir

2017

Pavitra Govindan

PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2017
Project Title: Are moderate laws more effective than radical ones in changing individual behavior governed by social norms?

Ivan Hofman

Summer Fellow 2017
Project Title: South-South Perspectives on Critical Religious Ecologies

Sebastian J. Lucek

Summer Fellow 2017
Project Title: Internship at the Centre for Policy Research / From Maihar to Monterrey: The Globalization of Indian Classical Music

Shishav Parajuli

Shishav Parajuli

PhD Candidate in Political Science
Summer Fellow 2017
Project Title:The Paragon of Animal, The Quintessence of Dust: An Invitation to the General Assembly of Humans and Dust in Kathmandu

Divya R. Santhanam

Summer Fellow 2017
Project Title: Investigating psychological and social stressors faced by married men who have sex with men (MSM) in India

2016

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Sachin Pendse

Summer Fellow 2016
Project Title: Social Media Networks and Cultural Identity Among the Tibetan Community of Dharamsala, India

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Elana Pyfrom

Summer Fellow 2016
Project Title: Toxology Studies in HIV and Diabetes

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Pranav Sharma

Summer Fellow 2016
Project Title: Mental Health Care and the State: Political Challenges of Instituting Health Systems Reforms through the Indian Parliament

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Sydney Tan

Summer Fellow 2016
Project Title: Stressing Out Holistically: The Role of Stress in Tibetan Medical School

2015

Rebecca Barron

Summer Fellow 2015
Project Title: Contemporary Implications of Indian Colonial Architecture

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Pia Brar

Summer Fellow 2015
Project Title: "Artivism" and India

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Ximena Carranza Risco

Summer Fellow 2015
Project Title: Indian Climate Politics: Operationalizing Equity in the New Climate Deal

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Sebastian Clark

Summer Fellow 2015
Project Title: Contesting Space / Occupying Place: Chandigarh, its Capitol and The Capacity to Aspire

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Dokee Lee

Summer Fellow 2015
Project Title: Comparative Studies on Human Rights in India - Influence of Intrinsic and Economic Factors

2014

Steven Brownstone

Summer Fellow 2014
Project Title: Middle Schools in India: Access and Quality

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Josephine Devanbu

Summer Fellow 2014
Project Title: Emerging Personhood: Identity and Demography in a Rural Antenatal Clinic

Emilio Leanza

Summer Fellow 2014
Project Title: Oral Histories of the Naxalite Movement (1967-75)

Samuel Lee

Summer Fellow 2014
Project Title: Rainwater for Humanity

Ria Mirchandani '15

Summer Fellow 2014
Project Title: Remembering Partition: The Sindhi Perspective

Alisa Schubert-Yuasa '15

Summer Fellow 2014
Project Title: How is the Aam Aadmi Party Changing India’s Political Landscape?

2013

David Adler '14

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: Beyond Corruption: Indian Bureaucracy and Implementation

Areas of Interest: Project Title: Beyond Corruption: Indian Bureaucracy and Implementation

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Sujaya Desai '14

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: Bridging the Divide Between Legal and Social Realms

Anamta Farook '14

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: Experience in Education Policy Design and Research in India

Jenna Haber '14

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: Managing Water and Waste: Working with Janaagraha in Bangalore, Karnataka

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Viveka Hulyalkar '15

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: “Let’s Be Well Red” (LBWR): Expanding the Health Scout Program Throughout Mumbai to Sustainably Combat Anemia"

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Sriniketh Nagavarapu

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Center for Environmental Studies
Summer Fellow 2013

Hailey Nguyen '14

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: Dimensions and Determinants of Rising Sex Ratios in South India

Taran Raghuram '14

Summer Fellow 2013
Project Title: Understanding the Nature and Extent of Corruption in India