Ph.D. Student Sona Prabhakaran

Sona Prahakaran joined the department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia in October 2018 as a doctoral candidate as a DAAD fellow under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ute Huesken and Prof. Dr. William Sax. 

She has an Integrated Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from IIT Madras and Aarhus University, Denmark. Before joining SAI, she worked with Stanford University (Rural Education Action Program) in assessing the quality of Engineering Education in India. Besides, she has been involved in numerous ethnographic projects dealing with gender and internal migration in India, study on miniature shrines in Chennai, assessment of canal construction, and status of rehabilitation and resettlement policies in Madhya Pradesh to name a few.