Each semester, the Mittal Institute offers grants to Harvard students to further their research, language study, or internship opportunities. This coming summer 2024, 13 students were awarded grants to carry out projects across five countries, ranging from studies on women in Urdu print culture, to the career mobility of rural-urban migrants in India, to the environmental impacts on mothers with disabled infants, to language studies on Persian, Mewati, and more.
Below is an overview of the winners — stay tuned during the fall semester when we hear more about what they learned.
Summer 2024 Grant Winners
Research Grants
Mapping Nepali Beyuls with ArcGIS – Jordan Borgman, Harvard Divinity School, Nepal
Finding Purpose: Gender & Sociocultural Influences on Sri Lankan Adolescent Educational Aspirations – Nigel Gray, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Sri Lanka
Teacher Collaboration Programs in Low-Income Contexts Field Work in Pakistan – Roohullah Gulzari, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Pakistan
Erosion at the Tanks – Harish Krishnamoorthy, Harvard Graduate School of Design, India
Jayanta on the Nature of inference – Jungju Seo, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
The Nostalgia of Status and Diaspora Support for Authoritarianism: Indians in the US and UK – Priyanka Sethy, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
The Worlds They Wrote: Womens Discourses in Late-20th-Century Urdu Print Culture – Poorna Swami, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, India
Facilitating Job Search and Career Mobility for Rural-Urban Migrants in India – Shreya Tandon, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, India
Environmental Hazards’ Impact on Mothers with Disabled Infants in South India – Saravanan Thangarajan, Harvard Medical School, India
Language Grants
Summer Sanskrit and Research – Leren Gao, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Nepal
Mewati Language Study – Davindar Singh, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, India
Persian Language Study in Lahore – Sadiq Soofi, Harvard College, Pakistan
Internship Grant
Improving efficiency of State and Central Government Public Finance Systems – Prince Dhawan, Harvard Kennedy School, India