Arnav Adhikari
PhD Candidate in English
Summer Fellow 2020
Language Training | Zabaan School for Languages
Graduate Students
Muhammad Omar Afzaal
PhD Candidate in Political Science
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Picking Your Battles: A Story of Pakistan’s Perceptions
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
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
Shannon Constantine
PhD Student in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Tara Dhaliwal
PhD Candidate in Religious Studies
Summer Fellow 2021
Project Title: Lives on the Periphery: Social Roles of Women in Pre-Colonial Punjab
Faraz Haider
PhD Candidate in History
Areas of Interest: Modern South Asia, Marxism, Nationalism, Islam in South Asia, Critical Theory, History of the Left, Urban History
Nomaan Hasan
PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2019
Project Title: The Eventfulness and the Ordinariness of Violence in Uttar Pradesh, India
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
Aarushi Kalra
PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Hate at Scale: Wealth Shocks, Backlash, and Hate Speech on Social Media
Ravi Krishnaswami
PhD candidate in Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Summer Fellow 2021
Project Title: Body, Home, World: Original Music, Phase 2
William Lodge
PhD Candidate, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Health Equity Research
Areas of Interest: Investigating barriers and facilitators to suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among gender and sexual minorities living with HIV
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"
Geetika Nagpal
PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2020
Project Title: Impacts of Sewer Provision and the Last Mile Problem
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
Ahona Palchoudhuri
PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2018
Open Graduate Fellow in Musicology and Ethnomusicology
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."
Katyayni Seth
PhD Candidate in Anthropology
Summer Fellow 2021
Project Title: Caring for Children with Seizures in Uttar Pradesh
Connor Staggs
PhD Student in Political Science
Areas of Interest: Vigilante Politics, Ethnic Conflict, and Urban Governance
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.
Pamudu Tennakoon
PhD Candidate in History of Art & Architecture
Summer Fellow 2021, 2023
Project Title: Decolonization and Ruination: Archival Research in the UK
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
Falaks Vasa (they/she)
MFA Candidate in Literary Arts, Cross-Disciplinary Writing
Areas of Interest: Queer strategies of resistance in South Asia, multi-disciplinary writing/artmaking
Alex Zhou
PhD Candidate in Economics
Summer Fellow 2022
Project Title: Beneficiary Targeting in Mumbai's Subsidized-Housing Program
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