Ishani Dasgupta
Ishani Dasgupta is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. She received her joint PhD, with distinction, in Anthropology and South Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining UChicago, she was an Andrew W. Mellon HILLS Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville.
Her research is grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst Tibetan refugees in India. She has worked closely with grassroots political organizations to understand how stateless communities practice resistance, navigate exclusion, and engage in alternative forms of political belonging and care. Her work has appeared in Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Journal of Refugee Studies, Himalaya, and American Ethnologist.
She is currently completing her first book manuscript, Refugee Nation: Citizenship, Resistance, and the Deterritorialized Tibetan Polity.
