A member of the International Division at UW-Madison
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 …
Biography Previous Institution(s): University of Northern Iowa Areas of Research Related to South Asia: Political Discourse Partition and Migration South Asian Colonial History Religion in South Asia
Biography Areas of Research Interest related to South Asia Migration, Labor Markets, Political Economy Areas of Research Interest beyond South Asia Applied Microeconomics
Biography Paul Thomas is a PhD student with the Geography Department at UW–Madison. His research interests revolve around questions on migration, development, and inequality in India. He holds an Integrated Master’s in Economics from the University of Hyderabad and worked as a project associate at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), India, for 3.5 …