Moushumi Shabnam-Anthropology
Area: Queens, New York, and Bangladesh
Title: Construction of Muslim identity in the post 9/11
era
Moushumi investigates class, gender, ethnic and family
backgrounds, and length of residency in the U.S. in the
process of identity construction for the Muslim American
immigrants in the post 9/11 U.S.
Karen McNamara-Anthropology
Area: Bangladesh
Title: Politics and Practice of Health in Bangladesh
Karen studies politics, religion, and medicine in
Bangladesh. She also researches the migration of
Bangladeshis to the Middle East, its influences on ideas of
Islam, and how this has affected perceptions and practice of
health and medicine in Bangladesh.
Ian Wilson-Anthropology
Area: Bharatpur District, Eastern Rajasthan, India
Title: Constructing ‘Jatness’ through History:The
Conceptualization of the Jat Community of Bharatpur in
History and Historical Discourses Ian’s research will
examine the history of the former princely state of
Bharatpur and the significances of its local history in the
present, with an emphasis on conceptions about the Jat
community.
Bandita Sijapati-Social Science
Area: Nepal, U.S.
Title: Politics of Youth Resistance
Bandita’s project examines how political socialization of youths in
differing cultural fields influences their political
beliefs, ideologies and participation.
Sally Steindorf-Anthropology
Area: Village of Kothariya, Rajasthan and Mumbai
(Bombay), India
Title: Narratives of Television and Change in Rural
North India Sally uses television as a lens to look at
development communication for social change, changing gender
roles, local perceptions of technology and change, ideas of
foreigners and the world, and consumption in rural north
India.
Vikas Choudhary-Anthropology
Area:
Rajasthan, India.
Title:
Household Craft Enterprises and Business
Support Providers in Rural Western Rajasthan
Vikas is undertaking a comparative study of
state, market, and the third sector intermediaries providing
business services to household crafts enterprises in
embroidery and weaving. He is studying the impact of these
providers on the lives of the artisans as well as the
different providers’ claims regarding notions of
benevolence, exploitation, and social cohesion.
Trudy DeLong-Anthropology
Area: India, Thailand
Trudy is researching post-operative experiences of people
who have decided to sell kidneys, how body parts move from
body to body, and the global commodification of specific
bodies over others.
Aman Luthra-Geography, Public
Administration, (2004)
Area: Bhutan
Title: Revisiting Shangri-la: Landscape
representation and the politics of development in Bhutan
Aman’s thesis examines the practices of landscape
representation that Bhutanese and transnational tourism and
development industries engage in, and the role that these
play in re-organizing the social, political and economic
geographies of Bhutan.
Sanjukta Mukherjee-Geography
Area: India
Title: Neoliberal globalization and the changing
gender of work and workplaces in the Indian software
industry Sanjukta researches the changing geography of the
software industry,particularly, India’s role in global
software production and the attendant changes in the nature
of gender relations of work/work spaces in Bangalore, India.
Srimoy Roychowdhury-History
Area: India
Srimoy studies the history of medicine and medical
practitioners in colonial India.
Kasturi Gupta-Sociology
Research Area: India
Title: Corporate Social Responsibility and
the Politics of HIV/AIDS Kasturi’s dissertation looks at the
flow of global capital and its effects on HIV/AIDS,
particularly at company workplace benefits and its effects
on women in India.
Payal Banerjee-Sociology
Area: United States and India
Title: Indian Immigrant Information Technology (IT)
Workers in the United States
Payal researches the incorporation of Indian immigrant IT
workers in the U.S and also assesses the interconnections
among U.S. immigration policies, globalization, gender, and
transnational migration.
Sharmadip Basu-Social Science Program
Area: India and the U.S.
Title: ‘American’ Tunes in Calcutta Airs: Folk/Rock
Music Subculture in an Indian Metropolis, c.1977 - 1994
Sharmadip traces how western music has become an
inextricable part of the musical lexicon of Bengalis in
Calcutta. This analysis focuses on various political,
economic, and social processes of transnational passage of
cultural artifacts from the so-called First World, and their
translation and (re-)transmission in a Third World urban
context.
Ishan Ashutosh-Social Science
Area: Unites States
Ishan’s research is on South Asian immigrant communities and
neighborhoods, with specific focus on business activities.
Keerthana Bidappa-Social Science
Area: India and London
Title: The Dual Politics of Home and Homeland
Keerthana is working on Anglo Indians who left India after
independence. While examining notions of identity for a
community who are of "mixed race" and away from their
country of birth, Keerthana is studying what "home" means to
the Anglo Indians, what India now means to them as they
straddle dual cultures today.
Neelakshi Medhi-Social Sciences
Area:
The South and East Asian Region
Title: Adoption of Environmental Regulations and
Diffusion of Environmentally Sound Technologies
Neelakshi focuses on the adoption of instruments to regulate
the environment and its implications for global containment
of air pollution. This study conducts a cross-country
assessment of regulations and technology flows (in 14
countries over 16 years) encompassing the South and East
Asian region, starting from Pakistan on the west to South
Korea in the east.
