Third year HASTS student Tathagat Bhatia has received a research grant from the MIT Center for International Studies. Awarded annually to a small number of students across the Institute, the grants provide funding for PhD candidates whose work focuses on international studies and requires travel for field research and/or visits to archives.
Financial support from CIS will allow Tathagat to advance their dissertation project, tentatively titled “Earthlike: Constituting the planet in the age of postcolonial worldmaking.” After passing their qualifying exams and presenting their dissertation proposal this spring, Tathagat will soon begin intensive, multi-sited archival research for this project.