In this spotlight, graduate student Radhika Moral catches up with the department after 20 months of fieldwork in Northeast India. 

Radhika spent the last 20 months conducting Ph.D. fieldwork and archival research on silkworm plantations of Upper Assam in Northeast India. Radhika's research focuses on ongoing ecological transformations and human-nonhuman relations that shape the dynamic of luxury silk and plantation politics in the context of agrarian shifts, climate change, and rapid scaling up of production in a cottage industry. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (USA) and The Wenner Gren Foundation. At Brown, the research has been funded by the Department of Anthropology, Pembroke Center, and Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia.

Learn more about funding opportunities through The Wenner Gren Foundation. 

Learn more about funding opportunities through the National Science Foundation (NSF).