Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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.