Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
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Archana Ramanujam
Sociology
Research Interests
Historical sociology, environmental policy, colonialism, corporate power, global and transnational sociology
Biography
Archana is a PhD candidate in the sociology department. She studies the conditions under which environmental policies might develop in extremely constrained circumstances. Her dissertation focuses on a small island polity where water use policy developed under colonialism and its legacy and under a large, multinational corporation.