Sohini Chattopadhyay

PhD Candidate in the History Department at Columbia University

Sohini Chattopadhyay is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Columbia University. Her dissertation focuses on the science of managing mass death in colonial cities, with a particular interest in Bombay and Calcutta among other cities in the early twentieth century. She edits an online journal Borderlines, and her research is funded by the Social Science Research Council and the American Institute for Indian Studies. She’s also a public health research volunteer for Peoples’ Archive of Rural India.

Working Group Affiliation

Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City, Graduate Assistant