Malini Chowdhury Fellowship Awardees

Awardees

2026

Masuma Mollika Miti

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project: Modeling Safety and Mobility in Mixed Traffic Systems

Saudia Anwer

Development Studies

Project: Climate Shocks, Gender, and Household Resilience in Coastal Bangladesh (Research Question - Do Bangladesh's Existing Social Protection Programs Respond Adequately to Climate Shocks, and Does Gender-Differentiated Program Design Improve Household Resilience in Delta and Coastal Communities?)

2025

Pronoy Chakraborty

South and Southeast Asian Studies

Project: Riverine, Monastic Networks in Medieval Bangladesh: Interrogating the connections and ruptures between Tantric Buddhist/Nātha Siddhas and the later Mārfati (Gnostic) Sahajiyās

2024

Cara Schulte

Public Health

Project: Climate Change as a Labor Rights Issue: Documenting the Health and Human Rights Impacts of Extreme Heat on Workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh

2023

Thomas Kingston

South and Southeast Asian Studies

Project: Ebb and Flow along an Unnatural Border: The Environmental, Social & Political Histories of the Naf River

2022

Kirtana Dasa (Kirt) Mausert

Anthropology

Project: Citizenship and Belonging in Bamar Buddhist-dominated Burma/Myanmar

2020

Ariana Pemberton

History of Art

Project: History of the Art and Architecture of Bangladesh Under Habshi (Abyssinian) Rule

2019

Tausif Noor

History of Art

Project: Art and Political Liberation

2018

Patrick DeSutter

Anthropology

Project: Engineering the Border

2017

Elizabeth Herman

Political Science

Project: Narratives of the 1971 Liberation War

2016

Kashfia Nehrin

Development Studies

Project: Sustainable Development

2015

Laura Boudreau

Business and Public Policy

Project: Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garment Sector

2014

Sheik Waheed Baksh

Development Studies

Project: Sustainable Development

Nafisa Akbar

Political Science

Project: Political Parties and Violence as a Campaign Strategy