Deepaboli Chatterjee

Deepaboli Chatterjee is a PhD Student in the Political Science Department. Her coursework at Penn has primarily trained her in the subfields of Comparative Politics and American Politics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of identity politics and information politics, with a regional focus on South Asia, primarily India. Her current work examines the logic of supply of different types of political messaging in mainstream news on television and their political impacts on voters. Her research uses a mixed-methods approach, using lab-in-the-field experiments, original surveys, text analysis and in-depth qualitative fieldwork.

Prior to starting her PhD at Penn, she worked on projects on urban transitions with scholars affiliated with the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Oxford, while being based at the Centre for Policy Research, a leading think-tank in India. She holds a Master’s in Financial Statistics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi.

Some of her pre-PhD work can be accessed below:

1. Chatterjee D, Lal B, Saxena R. "Education: Understanding the Gender Gap in Education and Employment." In: Chakravorty S, Sircar N, eds. Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi. South Asia in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press; 2021: 273-289.
2. Chatterjee, D., & Sircar, N. (2021). "Why Is Female Labour Force Participation So Low in India?" Urbanisation, 6(1_suppl), S40-S57.
3. Badrinathan, S., Chatterjee, D., Kapur, D., & Sircar, N. (2021). "Partisan Disagreement: The Role of Media, Personal Networks and Gender in Forming Political Preferences." Urbanisation, 6(1_suppl), S141-S157.