University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Graduate Student

Graduate Students affiliated with the Center for South Asia

Kumar, Anupama

Biography Areas of Research Related to South Asia: Labor, finance, welfare state

Lee, Alan

Biography Areas of Research Interest Iron technology in Northwestern South Asia (1500 BC – 500 AD). I am interested in archaeometallurgy and image analysis. Areas of General Interest Anywhere in the world with iron technology. Specifically I am interested in methods surrounding heat treatment techniques around the world. List of published and non-published works 2018 …

Mall, Shatrunjay

Biography Areas of Research Interest History of Modern South Asia Anti-colonial nationalism in India Post-colonialism Global South Asia East Asia Japan Areas of General Interest Transnational Asian History; East Asian History; South Asian History History of Japanese Imperialism; Pan-Asian ideologies; Intellectual History Favorite part about CSA Weekly lecturesEvents and invited speakers on topics related to …

Mukherjee, Bidisha

Biography Previous Institution(s): Ambedkar University Delhi, Jadavpur University Areas of Research Related to South Asia: Everydayness of Medicine, Gendered Violence, Politics of Conflict

Munazir , Shahana

Previous Institution(s) St. Stephens College University of Delhi, University of Oxford, UK Areas of Research Interest My ethnographic study explores how Muslim women in India take care of others in their daily lives, and how this translates into politics of relatedness. Using a decolonial framework, my project extends research on shifting dynamics and meanings of …

Naik, Sagarika

Biography My research concentrates on the Indo-Burmese relationships in the 19th-20th century.   I am also interested in learning Burma’s democratic authoritarian political historical dynamics, the way the country was separated from India, and how, in and through the process of independence, its different ethnic and religious groups were set against each other. Before coming …

Pandey, Srijan (Sri)

Biography Srijan (Sri) Pandey (they/she/he) is a doctoral researcher in the Information School pursuing a minor in design and gender studies. Their work sits at the intersection of human–AI interaction, critical data and AI ethics and justice through care and community engagement. Pandey’s research interrogates how algorithmic socio-technical systems mediate the lived experiences of marginalized …

Qiu, Yue

Previous Institutions Duke Kunshan University Areas of Research Interest related to South Asia Yue is a history PhD student at UW-Madison. For her doctoral dissertation, Yue aspires to study the social and intellectual history of left-wing exchanges across Bengal and China during the late-colonial and post-colonial eras. Yue also has a keen interest in broader …

Sasidharan, Sahil

Biography Sahil is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography. As an urban geographer with professional experience in city planning and architecture, his core research interests lie in understanding the uneven impact of digital technologies in an information age on spatial planning and land management processes in the majority urban world. Prior to joining …

Schmidt, Dirk

Biography Previous Institutions:   Esukhia • CIIS • Rice University   Research Focus:   Applied linguistics for Tibetan language(s). Primarily, I focus on Zhichag (Settlement) varieties of Tibetan found in India and Nepal, and issues of diglossia, readability & literacy, and second language pedagogy. My work draws from ideas and methods found in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, translation …