Past Graduate Student Associates
2016-2017
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Soledad Prillaman
Graduate Student Associate, 2016-2017
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Asad Liaqat
Graduate Student Associate, 2016-2017
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Gregory Clines
Graduate Student Associate, 2016-2017
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Amiya Bhatia
Graduate Student Associate, 2016-2017
2015-2016
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Mou Banerjee
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Research focus: Indian intellectuals’ encounters with Christianity in the nineteenth century
Research focus: Indian intellectuals’ encounters with Christianity in the nineteenth century
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Rosanna Picascia
PhD candidate in the Study of Religion focusing on South Asian philosophy of religion
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Mircea Raianu
PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Harvard University
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Sarika Gupta
PhD candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Priyasha Saksena
SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School
2014-2015
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Lydia Walker
PhD Candidate, Department of History, GSAS
Dissertation: Stillborn States: Failed Nationalism in Nagaland and South West Africa, 1960-1966
Dissertation: Stillborn States: Failed Nationalism in Nagaland and South West Africa, 1960-1966
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Neelam Khoja
PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, GSAS
Dissertation: Connecting South Asian Histories: Indo-Persian Folk Romances in Regional Historiography, 1650-1850
Dissertation: Connecting South Asian Histories: Indo-Persian Folk Romances in Regional Historiography, 1650-1850
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Joshua Ehrlich
PhD Candidates, Department of History, GSAS
Dissertation: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge, 1772-1835
Dissertation: The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge, 1772-1835
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Mariam Chughtai
Syed Babar Ali Fellow, 2018-2019
2013-2014
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Corrina Moucheraud
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Research focus: how information can help improve health in resource-poor settings; reducing maternal mortality in Nepal, from discrete interventions to health systems strengthening
Research focus: how information can help improve health in resource-poor settings; reducing maternal mortality in Nepal, from discrete interventions to health systems strengthening
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Erum Sattar
SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School
Research focus: Pakistan’s development architecture; linkages between the institutional and legal structures of the country’s rural agricultural economy based on the control of water and land resources in the Indus river basin
Research focus: Pakistan’s development architecture; linkages between the institutional and legal structures of the country’s rural agricultural economy based on the control of water and land resources in the Indus river basin
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Mou Banerjee
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Research focus: Indian intellectuals’ encounters with Christianity in the nineteenth century
Research focus: Indian intellectuals’ encounters with Christianity in the nineteenth century
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Aditya Dasgupta
PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
Research focus: relationship between partisan political competition and rural development in India
Research focus: relationship between partisan political competition and rural development in India
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Madhav Khosla
PhD. Candidate, Political Theory, Harvard University
Research focus: public law, political theory, and intellectual history; Indian political thought and Indian and comparative constitutional law
Research focus: public law, political theory, and intellectual history; Indian political thought and Indian and comparative constitutional law
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Mariam Chughtai
Syed Babar Ali Fellow, 2018-2019
2012-2013
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Anand Vaidya
South Asian Studies Fellow, 2014-2015
Graduate Student Associate, 2012-2013
ProfileGraduate Student Associate, 2012-2013
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Namita Wahi
Graduate Student Associate
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Bridget Hanna
Graduate Student Associate
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Mariam Chughtai
Syed Babar Ali Fellow, 2018-2019
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Benjamin Siegel
Graduate Student Associate
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Bilal A. Malik
Graduate Student Associate