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CASI Winners of Summer 2021 Research Grants

Megan Reed: School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Three Chapters on Marriage and the Reproduction of Social Inequalities in India

Rithika Kumar: School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science
The Politics, They are A-Changin’: Making Sense of Rising Female Political Participation in India

Arnav Bhattachaya: School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in History & Sociology of Science
Making Sex Scientific: A History of Sexual Science in India

Raka Sen: School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Everyday Adaptations: How Adapting to Climate Change is Reshaping the Sociopolitical Landscape of the Sandarbans

Anahita Kumar: Graduate School of Education, Ph.D. Candidate in Education
Nudging Parent-Child Engagement: A Technology-based Intervention to Promote Child Development during COVID-19 School Closures in India

Kim Fernandes: School of Arts & Sciences / Graduate School of Education, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Education
Disability in India: How Does the Emergence of Bureaucratic Structures to Make the Disabled Body Knowable Influence the Everyday Experiences of the Disabled?

Nico Millman: School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in English
The Agrarian Question in Literature and Politics across South Asia and Latin America, 1910s-Present

Rashi Sabherwal: School of Arts & Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science
Female Political Participation in India: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities to Women’s Autonomous Political Participation Across a Range of Measures