2023 CASI Summer Research Grant Recipients

Rabani Garg [2]: Graduate School of Education, Ph.D. Candidate in Education
Youth-Led Coalitions and Playful Political Expression in Urban Delhi; Youth Perspectives and Understandings of their Spaces

Arshdeep Singh Brar [3]: Penn Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Community and the Formation of Culture: The Making of Punjab,1891-1955

Shaashi Ahlawat [4]: Penn Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in South Asia Studies
Reimagining Medieval Magadha and its Cultural Encounters: Religious and Socio-political Landscape of Nalanda during the eleventh-fourteenth century CE

Abhi Sanghani [5]: Penn Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
Landscapes of Glory: Hydraulic Commons in Western India

Ngamlienlal Kipgen [6]: Penn Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in History and Sociology in Science
Wartime bodies in Frontier lands: Racializing American medicine in colonial India during WWII

Deepaboli Chatterjee [7]: Penn Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science
Unpacking Transnational Migration Aspirations of Indian Muslims in the Current Political Climate

Sanya Dhar Malhotra [8]: College'24, History, Minor in Economics
Ghadar Party and Revolutionary Socialism in late-colonial Punjab

2023 CASI Summer Interns

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI): Gurgaon, Haryana

Melissa Bell [9]: SAS'25, Health and Society

Meghan Fersten [10]: College'23, Neuroscience, Public Health Studies; Master of Public Health, Public Health Studies

Aravind Eye Care System: Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Achint Das [11]: Wharton'25, Health Care Management

Eric Lee [12]: College'26, Biochemistry

Sage Leland [13]: College'26, Neuroscience

Ashna Patel [14]: Vagelos Life Sciences & Management Dual-Degree Program'25, B.S. in Economics & B.A. in Biology

Sobti Family Doctoral Fellows

Rashi Sabherwal, Comparative Politics, 2023-24
Raka Sen, Sociology, 2023-24