Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

I am 6th year PhD candidate in Anthropology whose research is located at the intersections of economic and environmental anthropology with a focus on agrarian transformations and climate change. My dissertation project investigates and analyzes a seasonal silk plantation, the entangled histories of its political ecology and economy, and contemporary socioecological challenges that threatens its survivability in Northeast India. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (USA), The Wenner Gren Foundation, The Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Center for International and Public Affairs and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.