Priyanka is a PhD student in Comparative Politics. She focuses on social identity politics, race and ethnicity in politics, and immigrants and immigration. Her current projects include studying how diaspora communities engage with the politics of their origin countries, how natives form attitudes towards immigrants, and how immigrants form preferences around immigration. She has previously worked on social movements and ethnic insurgencies. She is affiliated with the Center for American Politics, the Weatherhead Cluster on Identity and Migration, and the Mittal South Asia Institute. Priyanka took her prior degrees at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, and previously worked in government consulting at McKinsey & Company. She is originally from Dehra Dun, India, and enjoys painting and creating crosswords.
Contact
psethy@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Comparative Politics | International Relations
Academic Interests
Civil Society and Social Movements | Democracy | Foreign Policy | Migration | Non-Governmental Organizations| Political Geography | Political Psychology | Public Opinion | Public Policy | Race & Ethnicity | Religion in Politics | State-Society Relations
Research Methods
Experiments | Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Asia | Europe | Middle East and North Africa | United States | North America (excluding the United States)