Tapaswinee Mitra
Graduate Student , The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Tapaswinee Mitra graduated with a B.A. in History from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2019 and an M.A. in Gender Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi in 2021. Her research interests lie at the intersection of postcolonial South Asia, transnational feminism, race and racialization, and masculinity studies, and she has pursued these interests through interdisciplinary research methods that include oral history and the study of creative practice (poetry) as resistance. Her proposed Ph.D. project explores the relationship between settler colonialism and the rise of religious fundamentalism in the socio-political context of contemporary South Asia.