Graduate student Vipanchika Sahasri Bhagyanagar awarded second place for conference paper

History graduate student Vipanchika Sahasri Bhagyanagar was awarded second place in the best paper competition at the recent Three Rivers Graduate History Conference for her paper, Disappearing Prisoners: Life and Resistance of Ordinary Criminals in Colonial India.

The conference was organized jointly by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, and was held March 15-16, 2025, in Pittsburgh.

Vipanchika is a second-year PhD student advised by Professor Tithi Bhattacharya. Her research is centered on the foundations and evolution of the modern punishment system, with specific reference to what is today called India. Specifically, Vipanchika is focused on the interactions of caste, gender, and religion with the life of criminal law in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial India, including in the indirectly ruled state of Hyderabad.

Learn more about Vipanchika Sahasri Bhagyanagar at this link.