Welcome to Dr. Shrishtee Sethi - New Fellow of the Joint South Asia Institute/Max Weber Forum Fellowship Program

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Srishtee Sethi as part of the joint South Asia Institute–Max Weber Forum Fellowship Program. She joins SAI for three months as the second fellow hosted through this program.

Dr. Sethi received her PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and was previously a Mittal Fellow at the LMSAI, Harvard University. Her research explores borderland communities, notions of an “undivided homeland,” and ritual entanglements across South Asia. Additionally, she aims to understand cross-border migrant emplacement within intertwined networks of political and cultural power.

During the fellowship, Dr. Sethi will be working with Dr. Philipp Zehmisch on developing a long-term research project on cross-border ethnography in a securitised region (conducted collaboratively in India and Pakistan).