From the Division of Research
Announcing the 2026 Internal Funding Awardees
Awards include the 2026 Division of Research Seed Program and the Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Aparajita Majumdar
Assistant Professor of History & Environment and Society
Research Interests
historical significance of failed crops, multispecies history and ethnography, colonial and Indigenous notions of borderlands, heritage
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News from IBES
IBES-affiliated students named 2026 Royce Fellows
Through the Swearer Center program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship.
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Majumdar will teach "Enviromental Pressures of South Asia" this fall.
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