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Biography
Mou Banerjee, Harvard ’18, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her first book, “The Disinherited” was published in January 2025 from Harvard University Press. Her research has appeared in multiple journals such as the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS), the journal Political Theology, Perspectives on History of the AHA, etc. She has also written for newspapers and periodicals such as The Telegraph and the Anandabazar Patrika of India and The Daily Star of Bangladesh. At UW-Madison she runs the Nonviolence Project, which highlights student research on civil rights and nonviolent movements across the world.