The Bhattacharya Graduate Fellowships provide support for graduate fellowships in the form of competitive grants of up to $1000 for research travel to South Asia (two will be awarded) and $500 for domestic conference travel or in-country library research (two will be awarded). For further details on the application procedure and deadlines, please click here.
Awardees
| 2024 | Research | Alyssa René Heinze (PhD Student, Political Science UC Berkeley) The Gender Politics of Water |
| Kamya Yadav (PhD Student, Political Science UC Berkeley) Beyond the Ballot: Rethinking Women’s Political Ambition and Gendered Pipelines into Politics |
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| Sayantan Mitra (PhD Candidate, Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley) The Forest-Development Tradeoff: How are Local Populations Impacted When Infrastructure Replaces Forests in India? |
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| Nina Schoener (PhD student in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley.) Children's acquisition of Hindi kinship terminology: the relationship between semantic complexity and partial knowledge |
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| Pranav Kuttaiah (PhD student in the Department of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley.) Movement Without Mobility: Aspirations, Sensibilities and the Making of a Pan-Indian Labor Market |
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| 2023 | Research | Anurag Advani (PhD Candidate, South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) The Long Afterlife of Mughal Monuments: Sheesh Mahal, Shah Pir Dargah and Public History in India |
| 2022 | Research | Alyssa Heinze (PhD Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley) Women's representation and gendered pathways to political influence |
| 2021 | Research | Maria Villalpando Paez (Master's of Development Practice Candidate) Community seed bank for sustainable rural livelihoods in Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary |
| 2020 | Research | Devanshi Unadkat (PhD candidate, Graduate School of Education UC Berkeley) Constructing digital narratives, deconstructing rampant patriarchy |
| Chiman Cheung (Ph.D. student, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley) Political Cycles of "Random" Audits: Evidence from PMGSY in India |
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| 2019 | Research | Piyush Panigrahi (PhD Candidate, Economics, UC Berkeley) Geography and Supply Chain Organization: Theory and Evidence from India |
| Sourav Ghosh (PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley) Sovereignty and Kingship Between Empires: A Bottom-up study of Eighteenth-Century India |
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| Ned Dostaler (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley) The City of Sand: Urban Ecologies and Uncertain Life in Chennai |
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| 2018 | Research | Drew Cameron (PhD Candidate, Health Policy, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley) A cluster randomized controlled trial to promote the uptake and continued use of potable water delivery in rural Bihar, India |
| Gauthami Penakalapati (PhD Candidate, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley) Evaluation of social networks and measures of empowerment among adolescent girls in Uttar Pradesh, India |
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| Meghna Mukherjee (PhD Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley) The Dual Role of the Physician-Salesman in Idealizing Egg Donors |
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| Conference | Anirvan Chowdhury (PhD candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley) The General Equilibrium Effects of Political Campaigns: An Experiment on Women’s Vote in India |
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| Tanu Kumar (PhD candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley) The impact of homeownership on the political and economic behavior of low-income households: a natural experiment from Mumbai, India. |
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| 2017 | Research | Bhumi Purohit (PhD candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley) Information and Political Polarization: Can Policy Data Reduce Ethnically and Religiously Polarizing Rhetoric in Indian Political Campaigns? |
| Anirvan Chowdhury (PhD candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley) Consolidating power after hegemons decline: evidence from West Bengal, India |
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| Conference | Lisa Brooks (PhD candidate, South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley) Fluid Bodies: Leeches in Classical Āyurvedic Medical Compendia and Practice |
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| Shakthi Nataraj (PhD candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley) A mother, a man, and an anthropologist |
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| William F Stafford Jr (PhD candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley) Value and the Distribution of Proximity: The Autorickshaw Meter and Regimes of Location |