Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Sarah Besky

Discipline: Anthropology

Primary Language: Konyak, Nagamese

Research Countries: Myanmar

Research Interests: Roderick Wijunamai is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. His PhD research focuses on forms of plantation, and its impact on Indigenous people in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands. Roderick’s research is driven by interests in political ecology, agrarian change, climate change, and food systems.