DIRECTOR'S LETTER
By Sarah Besky
It was an exciting year at the South Asia Program. We hosted dozens of excellent speakers through our weekly SAP seminar series, which drew students and faculty from across Cornell’s campus to the Einaudi Center for thoughtful and engaged conversations. Our annual 2024 Tagore lecture expressed our commitment to being “the center for the margins,” highlighting stories from Assam and the work of the brilliant Aruni Kashyap. Aruni writes in English and Assamese and has translated numerous books. You can read about his writing and visit to Cornell for the Tagore lecture below. Aruni is currently on a fellowship at The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard working on his newest book. Let’s all keep an eye out for that soon! Also on translation, please stay tuned for more details on the 2025 Tagore Lecture, which will feature Daisy Rockwell, the Booker Prize winning translator of Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand. Thank you, as always, to the Prabhu family for allowing us to bring these amazing authors to Cornell!
Below you can also read about our Fulbright fellows and summer interns as well as the excellent work that SAP’s students, faculty, and visiting scholars are doing at Cornell and around the world.
As we look back at the last year, it is inspiring to think about the community we have at SAP. I am always grateful to all our faculty and students for their energy and engagement. And thank you to all the friends of the South Asia Program, even if we don’t get to see you up in the great expanse of Central New York. Right now, there is a lot going on around the world and close to home. Now more than ever is a time for mutual support and solidarity across difference. If area studies is anything, it is a space to foster that work, collectivity, and community. Thank you. I look forward to an exciting year ahead.
Fulbright experience at Cornell
By Devika Singh Shekhawat
Coming to Cornell as a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow with the South Asia Program and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations was a truly enriching experience. My first month in Ithaca was spent diving into its lakes and exploring its trails and markets. The small quaint town, with all that it had to offer and the endless expanse of the campus left me in complete awe of the place.
The fellowship not only allowed me to build my research on health and labor in tea plantations of Assam but also opened up possibilities of meeting the most wonderful people.
The warmth and support offered by Gloria Lemus-Chavez and Daniel Bass at SAP made my arrival and transition into Cornell absolutely seamless. The SAP seminar series became an exciting place of learning, and I found myself constantly marking my calendar with engagements that SAP had to offer. I was delighted to get an opportunity to share my work on the ‘History and Memory of Migration of Tea Plantation workers through Jhumur Songs’ in the SAP seminar series and get wonderful feedback on my research.
The university resources proved to be immensely helpful and the faculty at Cornell were kind enough to allow me to sit through their courses in the fall semester. The Agrarian Studies course with Sarah Besky allowed me to relook at critical debates and themes around my research and the Plantation Studies course offered by Julia J. Haines gave me a chance to enrich my area of study.
I especially enjoyed my time at Cornell working with the graduate student community. The weekly meetings of the Agrarian Studio headed by Sarah Besky became a space to share in-progress research. The in-depth discussions on my thesis chapter on the meaning of health in tea plantations helped me productively shape my own writing. The studio allowed the graduate student community to truly build a space where we could collectively think and work.
In addition, SAP encouragement was instrumental in supporting graduate students to build a working group. It became a space to discuss our own research, productively engage with the speakers from the SAP seminar series, and organize workshops and small reading groups. Workshop sessions spilled over to exciting conversations at the Big Red Barn and it became a space to foster intellectual curiosity and friendships. I was able to develop two research papers on ‘Foraging, Thermal Production and Social Reproduction in Tea Plantations of Assam’ and ‘Colonial Medicine and Land Use in Assam Plantation’ with the constructive feedback of the lovely folks at the SAP graduate student working group and the Agrarian Studio.
The comradery built and shared with the academic community is something I will carry with me wherever I go.
I never thought that I would be able to forge such deep and loving friendships in such a short period of time. The beautiful memories of my time at Cornell, the endless conversations over multiple rounds of tea and the kindness of the lovely people of Ithaca will be truly missed. I am grateful for all the love that the place has shown me. I hope to find myself coming back again.
Summer Internship at Ashoka University
by Haruna Floate
Through the Global Internships program, I spent 10 weeks in Sonipat, Haryana this summer as an undergraduate research intern at Ashoka University. I was part of the Integrative Genetics and Evolution Laboratory (IGEL) led by Dr. Sudipta Tung, which investigates the effect of diet on behavior and aging in Drosophila melanogaster. As a Nutritional Sciences major at Cornell, I was able to apply my classroom knowledge to laboratory research, all while immersing myself in the rich and vibrant culture of India.
During the first weeks of my internship, I learned the fundamentals of fly work such as how to cook fly food, collect eggs, and differentiate between male and female flies. This was my first time working with a model organism, and I was astonished by the dedication required to maintain the fly populations—there was no set “weekend” in the lab, since fly maintenance took place all throughout the week! In the latter half of the summer, I took the lead on a behavioral assay and carried out two experiments with the help of lab members. This allowed me to experience the rigorous process of experimental research: investigating scientific literature, pitching a project proposal, prototyping various setups, conducting experiments, and performing data analysis.
It was a challenging but rewarding experience, and I am grateful for all of the lab members who guided and trusted me in this process.
Beyond Drosophila and research, my summer was filled with new cultural experiences and learning. I spent most of my time on campus with lab members, as we ate lunch together at the mess everyday and often shared downtime between night shifts for experiments running around the clock. This allowed me to truly immerse myself with locals and engage in insightful conversations about food, language, and many other aspects of Indian culture. I also connected with some undergraduate Ashokans, giving me a glimpse into college life in India. From playing badminton together, watching Bollywood movies, to exploring Delhi on weekends, I loved partaking in cultural experiences with peers and forging international friendships.
My internship not only enabled me to develop my critical thinking and research skills in the laboratory, but further cultivate my mindset as a global citizen.
Being in a country with such a large population challenged my ideals, and surrounding myself with those from vastly different upbringings pushed me to think deeply about topics I had not considered before. My summer at Ashoka helped me to strengthen my sense of cultural awareness, intercultural communication, and empathy; I will carry these takeaways with me as I pursue my professional goals of serving as a multilingual healthcare provider.
Cornell Bhangra brings community with "intoxicating joy"
by Caitlin Hayes
“The whole basis of Bhangra is to bring community together, to celebrate things like the harvest and to have fun, together. Bhangra literally means ‘intoxicated with joy,’” said Amulya Puttaraju, a student in the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, who serves as one Cornell Bhangra’s team captains. “It’s pushed me so much in terms of my personal growth,” Puttaraju said. “Having Bhangra and being able to apply myself in a different context has shown me that I’m capable of so much. Cornell Bhangra, founded in 1997, is one of the oldest and best collegiate Bhangra teams in the country, routinely competing and placing at nationals and performing at numerous local events and regional competitions throughout the year.
NEWS
- Bringing India and Cornell Together
- The Next Monsoon Conference
- Global Center HEaTR Grant
- The Next Monsoon Podcast
- Agrarian Studio
- The Nilgiris Field Learning Program
Bringing India and Cornell Together
Innovative thinkers and problem solvers from India have made Cornell their Ivy League university for more than a century. Today, 1,600 alumni in India, Global Hubs partners, and deep learning and research collaborations bring Cornell and India together.
The Next Monsoon Conference
On October 27-29, 2023, The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia was held at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The conference, which was hosted by the South Asia Program and cosponsored by the Johnson Museum of Art and its Stoikov Asian Art Lecture Fund, was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Central New York Humanities Corridor.
The focus of this project was on how individuals and communities are responding to a changing climate through visual arts, cinema, literature, architecture and other cultural expressions in South Asia. The four faculty organizers consisted of former South Asia Program Director Iftikhar Dadi (History of Art), current South Asia Program Director Sarah Besky (ILR), Sonal Khullar (Art History, University of Pennsylvania) and Rupali Gupte (School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai).
Prior to the conference, regular meetings of participants in reading groups and the first season of podcasts spearheaded conversations on understanding climate change specifically from a cultural lens. During the 2022-2023 academic year, the four faculty leads convened four virtual reading group meetings, bringing together the international faculty, as well as other interested faculty and graduate students. These discussions provided a common language and frame of reference for the participants’ individual presentations at the three-day The Next Monsoon conference in October 2023, and a subsequent publication. Further information about the conference, including videos of nearly every presentation, are available at the conference website.
Global Center promises design solutions for warming world
A Cornell-led project team – with Global Hubs partners in India, the U.K, Ghana and Singapore – received a two-year $250,000 design grant from the National Science Foundation in Fall 2023 to bring more comfortable days and nights to homes everywhere. The Global Center for Household Energy and Thermal Resilience (HEaTR) aims to promote climate vulnerability solutions by analyzing and sharing the practical housing adaptation strategies of communities most affected by climate extremes.
Season 2: The Next Monsoon Podcast
In Summer 2024, the seven-episode second season of SAP’s podcast, The Next Monsoon, was released. Each episode features an interview with a scholar on the sidelines of The Next Monsoon conference, held in October 2023, and an excerpt of another scholar’s presentation. The last episode breaks this pattern, offering multiple scholars’ answers to some key questions about the conference, next steps for The Next Monsoon project, and the impacts of climate change in South Asia.
Hosted by SAP Manager Daniel Bass and SAP student worker Shavin Seneviratne, who is also the editor, with music and production supervision from SAP Administrator Gloria Lemus-Chaves, The Next Monsoon podcast is available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and more.
Agrarian Studio expands with Future of work fellowship
Looking for community after the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, SAP Director Sarah Besky established the Agrarian Studio in the ILR School to foster a collective approach to training anthropology graduate students. “It’s a mash-up of a creative writing seminar and the labs of natural scientists,” said Besky.
The Nilgiris Field Learning Program
The Nilgiris Field Learning Program (NFLP) is a learning platform anchored by the Keystone Foundation in partnership with Cornell. For five weeks in Summer 2023, students from Cornell and youth from indigenous communities in the Nilgiris live, study, and work together in Tamil Nadu, India. This opportunity for field-engaged learning and research partnerships was mentored by SAP faculty Andrew Wilford (Anthropology). The NFLP provides meaningful, hands-on research opportunities for students, community members, NGO professionals, and faculty who work together on ongoing projects that have emerged from community-expressed needs.
Experts Envision Afghanistan's Future
by Phoebe Wagner
“If you block peaceful politics, then you make room for unpeaceful politics,” said a presenter at the September 9, 2023 conference at Cornell.
The Next Generation's Initiative: Learning from the Past to Build the Future of Afghanistan, a conference held at Cornell, brought together Afghan scholars and experts in politics and law to analyze Afghanistan’s recent past for clues about how to build a brighter future. The event was hosted by the South Asia Program and the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa at Cornell Law School. The nine presenters engaged in discussions about the future of Afghanistan on governance and constitutionality, the public sphere, rule of law, and public perspectives. The conference opened with a welcome from SAP visiting scholar Sharif Hozoori, an Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund fellow and an expert on Afghanistan politics.
Bi-Annual Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium Symposium
As part of our National Resource Center grant from the U. S. Department of Education, we planned semesterly symposia to bring students and faculty affiliated with Cornell’s South Asia Program and Syracuse’s South Asia Center together for discussion, dinner, and more. SAP hosted the second-ever symposium in November 2023 and Syracuse hosted the third symposium in March 2024.
The November 2023 symposium featured discussions led by Nimisha Thakur (Anthropology, Syracuse University), Whitman Barrett (Soil and Crop Sciences, Cornell University), Shanel Khaliq (Sociology, Syracuse University), and Ayesha Matthan (History of Art, Cornell University). Their projects each followed the roundtable and theme, Sustainability & Its Critics in South Asia: Development, Ecology, Preservation, and Beyond. From poverty to farming to infrastructure and more, these discussions offered new and interesting perspectives on sustainability in South Asia.
March 2024's symposium showcased a different lineup of scholarship through a roundtable and theme of Archives, Collections, and Data: How South Asianists Conceive Their Research. Du Fei (History, Cornell University), Sobia Paracha (Political Science, Syracuse University), Neha Gupta (Economics, Cornell University), and Allie Berger (Religion, Syracuse University) each presented their research, which spurred a fascinating conversation. A concluding event, South Asia Performance as Archive and Action, featured Anshul Roy in a lecture-performance and 15 students from Syracuse student organization, Desi Performance, in a series of performances that earned a standing ovation.
Aruni Kashyap delivers 14th Annual Tagore Lecture
On April 12, 2024 Aruni Kashyap delivered the 14th Annual Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature, “Sex, Sedition, and Storytelling.” In his lecture, Kashyap discussed how his career as a writer, editor, translator, and academic has articulated the tension between the state and the individual, the public and the private, the fragility of democracy, and how storytelling is a politically charged engagement with society.
Aruni Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English.
The Rabindranath Tagore Lecture Series in Modern Indian Literature is made possible by a gift from the late Cornell Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Sumi Prabhu. Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s expansive imagination, unbounded by geopolitical boundaries, the series has regularly featured prominent writers from across South Asia and its diasporas.
Concerts, readings & Film Screenings
Bushra Rehman - Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion
In February 2024, SAP hosted novelist Bushra Rehman, who read from her debut novel, Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion, to a packed audience at A. D. White, with a Q&A moderated by Prachi Patankar. Rehman also read from work and met with students at Tompkins Cortland Community College, in an event moderated by Professor of English Virginia Shank.
Sahraa Karimi - Ithaca-Area Films
In March 2024, Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi screened three of her films in the Ithaca area, in partnership with Ithaca City of Asylum. She presented her documentary Afghan Women Behind the Wheel at Cornell Cinema, her documentary Parlika at Tompkins Cortland Community College, and her feature film Hava, Maryam, Ayesha at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca.
Cornell Concert Series Presents DoosTrio and Tisra
SAP partnered with the Cornell Concert Series to promote two concerts featuring South Asian musicians. DoosTrio, consisting of Kayhan Kalhor (kamancheh), Wu Man (pipa), and Sandeep Das (tabla) extended their international collaborations as part of the Silk Road Ensemble in a performance at Bailey Hall in February 2024. In March 2024, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain returned to Bailey Hall, accompanied by Debopriya Chatterjee (bansuri) and Sabir Khan (sarangi) for a concert as Tisra.
SAP Screening - All That Breathes
In April 2024, SAP screened All That Breathes, which was nominated for a Best Documentary Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards, at Cornell Cinema, followed by a virtual Q&A with the director, Shaunak Sen, moderated by SAP Manager Daniel Bass.
Concerts - Penn Masala, Akkarai Sisters, Bharat Sunder
Several Cornell student groups brought musical performances to campus, cosponsored by SAP. In October 2023, ASHA Cornell presented Penn Masala, which bills itself as the world's first South Asian a capella group. Cornell Saarang, formerly known as the Cornell chapter of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth (SPICMACAY) brought the Akkarai Sisters, accompanied by Vijay Ganesh and R. Sankarnarayanan, to campus in October 2023 and Bharat Sundar, with Sayee Rakshith, Sumesh Narayan, and Chandrasekara Sharma, in April 2024.
South Asia Program Seminar Series and Events 2023-2024
We hosted a robust series of events in Fall 2023, including The Next Monsoon conference. A list of events with links with further details is available in the link below.
We hosted an exciting series of events in Spring 2024, including The Tagore Lecture by Aruni Kashyap. A list of events with links with further details is available in the link below.
Outreach
Post-Secondary outReach manager Kathi Colen Peck speaks at Title VI Conference, Washington, DC
Post-secondary outreach activities
Catherine DuBreck, Monroe Community College Instructor for the GIST: Geospatial Information Science & Tech Program, was a 2023-2024 Community College Internationalization Fellow with SAP. She was also a recipient of a January 2023 CAORC-AIIS faculty development seminar in India on Exploring Sustainability through Urban and Agricultural India. For her CCIF project, Mapping Informal Settlements in India: A geospatial exploration of Indian culture and poverty, she created a small geospatial/geography course unit with lecture and lab about India to teach students about a country and culture beyond their own, to expose them to global issues like poverty and informal settlements, and to show students a real-world application of geospatial technology which can be used to identify the changes of an informal settlement.
Samuel B. Cushman teaches the course, “Music of the African Diaspora” among others at Onondaga Community College. As a SAP 2024-2025 Community College Internationalization Fellow, he’ll develop a new unit for the course on “Afro-South Asian Musical Intersections in the Caribbean & Beyond.” Cushman will explore the musical and cultural exchange between sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Atlantic to deepen these perspectives by also attending to Afro-South Asian syncretism. He’ll include topics on the musical practices of the Indian Ocean African Diaspora, South Asian labor migration and hybrid Afro-South Asian musics of the Caribbean, and the Black music in contemporary South Asian popular music culture.
Celebrated author Bushra Rehman visited Tompkins Cortland Community College on February 29, 2024 where she read from her latest & highly praised novel, Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion. TC3’s English Professor Virginia Shank moderated the Q&A and students, staff and faculty alike engaged in lively discussion about the book and the novelists’ writing & publishing process. Shank noted that Rehman’s visit “was like a rose blooming in the midst of a bleak February. Attendees from all across the campus enjoyed the reading, and creative writing students in particular felt engaged by her warm Q&A style. She even offered her own copy of her novel to a curious young writer. What a gift to enjoy a renowned writer in our midst!”
In March 2024, Sahraa Karimi, Afghan filmmaker in exile, made a presentation at Tompkins Cortland Community College, as part of a collaboration between Ithaca City of Asylum and the South Asia Program. Karimi screened one of her stirring documentary films, Parlika, about the life of Soraya Parlika, a pioneer and activist in advancing girl’s and women’s rights in Afghanistan from the 1970s to early 2000s. While the current state of affairs in Afghanistan is anything but advancing women's rights, we were able to reflect on past efforts and hope for a future when Parlika's dedication to the education and rights of girls and women thrives again. In the meantime, Sahraa Karimi continues to shine a light through her beautiful cinematic work.
Cornell’s Collaborative Partnership with Monroe Community College Builds a Global Perspective on Social Justice
By Christina Heyon Lee
Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, New York, prioritizes the intersection between global learning and social justice. Through curricular programming, professional development, and strategic partnerships, MCC is attempting to create global citizens who are committed to making the world a just and safe place for all. One of the ways MCC accomplishes this is through a partnership with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, including the South Asia Program. The initiatives from this collaboration expand the community college curriculum by incorporating global learning and experiences into courses and engaging students in the development of global perspectives.
International Studies Summer Institute 2024: Plant and Animal Migration
The 2024 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI) professional development workshop for K-12 educators from throughout New York State was held at Cornell campus on July 9, 2024, with the theme of “Plant and Animal Migration” internationally and in our backyards. The Einaudi Center for International Studies has been presenting ISSI for decades, and this year, collaborated not only with SAP’s NRC consortium partner, the South Asia Center at Syracuse University, and the other Einaudi area studies programs, but also Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology, Botanic Gardens and Johnson Museum of Art. Participating educators were able to gain tools, activities, and knowledge to apply in their classrooms around issues of plant and animal migration; connect issues affecting themselves and their students here in the US with other parts of the world; and “recharge” their intellectual batteries.
Announcements
Obituaries
Gilbert Levine ’48, Ph.D. ’52, professor emeritus of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and four-time interim director of the Einaudi Center for International Studies, died in February 2024. Levine worked extensively in South Asia, including helping to establish the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and developing the Gal Oya irrigation system in Sri Lanka.
Ved P. Kayastha, former Ernest L. Stein Asia Curator of the South Asia Collection at the Cornell University Library, died in May 2024. Kayastha worked at the Cornell University Library from 1966 until his retirement in 2003.
SAP Welcomes New Faculty
In 2023, SAP welcomed two new SAP faculty members, and two more are joining in Fall 2024.
Aditya Vashistha is an Assistant Professor at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His research aims to design, build, and evaluate appropriate computing systems to improve socioeconomic outcomes for low-income communities globally. His current project, “Online Ableism and Gender Bias in Non-Western Contexts,” examines ableist hate that disabled people of diverse gender identities in India experience online and evaluate the efficacy of state-of-the-art toxicity classifiers and language models in identifying ableist hate and its intersection with gender bias.
Denise Green is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design and Director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC). Her research uses ethnography, video production, archival methods, and curatorial practice to explore production of fashion, textiles, identities, and visual design. She has recently taken students to India and Sri Lanka to study textile and apparel production as part of a class.
Sarah Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Government. In her research, she asks how key institutions can intervene to increase the political agency of women and indigenous populations, who are systematically excluded from state politics around the globe. She will be spending the 2024-2025 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development's Colombo, Sri Lanka hub.
William Lodge is an Assistant Professor of Health Equity and Public Policy at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. He is a behavioral and social scientist specializing in HIV primary and secondary prevention, with a particular focus on gender and sexual minority health both domestically and internationally.
Fulbright Awardees
Four Cornell students are heading to South Asia this academic year (2024-2025) on Fulbright fellowships, including three of the four national research awards to Nepal this year.
Madeleine August: Sri Lanka | Project Title: On Generosity and Refuge: Sri Lankan Ambalamas | Field of Study: Architecture
Elizabeth Taber: Nepal | Project Title: Municipal Waste Management Policy Analysis | Field of Study: Public Policy
Mika Ulmet: Nepal | Project Title: Promoting the Preservation and Consumption of Nepal's Indigenous Grains | Field of Study: Global Development
Ashira Weinreich: Nepal | Project Title: Women as Healers in the Bioculturally Diverse Himalayas of Manaslu Conservation Area | Field of Study: Interdisciplinary Studies
Shahd Al-Juwhari MRP, City & Regional Planning | Language: Urdu
Nishal Basnet MPP, Public Policy | Language: Bengali
Grace Feisthamel MPS, Global Development | Language: Hindi
Hyrum Edwards BA, Near Eastern Studies | Language: Persian
Kaitlin Emmanuel PhD, History of Art & Visual Studies | Language: Tamil
Medha Kulkarni MRP, City & Regional Planning | Language: Bengali
Aleia Manning MHA, Health Administration | Language: Persian
Pritika Venkatraman MRP, City & Regional Planning | Language: Bengali
Recently Graduated Students 2023-2024
Isha Bhatnagar PhD, Global Development | Dearest Daughters: Changing Norms Around Son Preference in India
Neelanjan Datta PhD, Economics | Essays in Public Debt and Taxation
Liyu Hua PhD, Asian Literature, Religion and Culture | Savouring the Flavour of the Commentarial Ocean: Consistency and Diversity in the Early Buddhist Commentarial Tradition
Camille Elyse Jones PhD, Nutrition | Vitamin A Status, Anemia, And Health Outcomes In Women And Children In Low Resource Settings
Sharifa Sultana PhD, Information Science | Computing for Recognition: Design and Development of Just Technologies with Marginalized Communities
Emily Urban PhD, Soil and Crop Sciences | Bending Agricultural Burning Trajectories In Eastern India
Palashi Vaghela PhD, Information Science | Hidden in Plain Sight: Decoding Inscriptions of Caste and Gender in Indian Computing
Maryam Amini MPS, Global Development | Afghan Women's Education for Climate Resilience: "Educated Women Build Strong Communities"
Arpita Chakrabarty MFA, English Language and Literature | The Song of a Boat
Mariam Fatima MRP, City and Regional Planning | Policies in Motion: Tracing Pakistan's Urban Transport Evolution
Ritika Jharia MA, City and Regional Planning | International Significance of the Architectural Work of Louis I. Kahn
Rashmi Kanthi MPS, Global Development | A Tale Of Two Decades: A Study Of Changing Underweight And Overweight Factors in Indian Women (15-49) Between 1999 And 2019
Mary Lee MPS, Integrative Plant Science | Nowhere Else on Earth: An Interpretive Toolkit for Ex-Situ Conservation of Sri Lanka's Endemic Flora
Omisha Manglani MS, Natural Resources | Cultivating Hope: Situating Place-Based Education, Health Sovereignty, and Climate Resiliency in Spiti Valley, India
Mochammad Rizal MS, Nutrition | Anemia and Hemoglobin Concentrations and their Association with Minimum Dietary Diversity among Adolescents aged 15-19 in India
Hannah Schwarz MPS, Global Development | Menstruation Module Curriculum featured in "Girls Empowered! Girls Empowerment Training: Overcoming Adolescent Challenges in Rural Nepal"
Michael Snow MPS, Global Development | Agricultural Training for Young Adults in Bhutan: Productivity, Stewardship, and Joy
Hilary Zhang MS, Nutrition | Geographical Variations in Polycystic Ovarian Morphology in India- and United States-Based Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
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