Yinka Adetu is an English Language and Literature PhD candidate exploring the afterlives of colonialism, and how histories of displacement shape contemporary identities and political experiences.

Sepehra is a graduate student at Cornell’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy with interests in environmental sustainability, climate change, and agricultural policy. She is also an Environmental Finance and Impact Investing (EFII) Fellow.

Degree: PhD, City and Regional Planning Language: Malayalam Research Interests: Environment & migration, displacement & dispossession, land governance & human rights, managed retreat, reconciling rural livelihoods & biodiversity conservation, and mountain peoples & ecosystems

Vincent is a PhD candidate in the Asian Religions doctoral program of the Department of Asian Studies. He has received a 2016-17 Fulbright Student Fellowship to conduct his research over the next year in India.

Patrick is a PhD student in Asian literature, religion, and culture, who works as an intellectual historian of Sanskrit knowledge systems.

Dinesh Ghimire is a PhD Candidate in the field of plant breeding and genetics at the Robbins lab.

Degree: PhD, Government

Language: Hindi

Research Interests: climate change, development, electoral politics, identity, migration, political economy.

Degree: PHD, Natural Resources

Language: Nepali

Research interests: drivers of human migration, social-ecological systems, South Asia relations, natural resource management and climate change, urban development, bioculture, and 21st-century land ethics

Parijat Jha is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology, with graduate minors in Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Degree: PHD, Anthropology

Language: Urdu