Raka Sen
Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
Sobti Family Fellow, 2023-24
CASI is pleased to announce Raka Sen as a Sobti Doctoral Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) for the 2023–24 academic year.
Raka joins CASI as a Ph.D. student in sociology. Her research interests span environmental, labor, urban, gender, migration, and development studies. Situated at the intersection of all of these subjects, Raka's work looks to understand how climate change and development is reshaping the everyday lives of local people in the Sundarban region of India and Bangladesh.