Srishti Dutta Chowdhury

Srishti Dutta Chowdhury is a PhD candidate in History at Purdue University, where her dissertation examines how Asian migrants navigated work, community-building, and cross-racial solidarity in the United States from 1945 to 1990.  She interrogates the shifting dynamics of race, class, and empire in post-war America while neoliberal economic policies transformed the labor market, and immigration policies underwent liberal reforms.  She is working with Dr. David Atkinson.

Before coming to Purdue, Srishti earned her BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and has contributed to research on gender precarities in STEM (University of Glasgow-IIM Calcutta) and Marxist sociocultural movements in India (Jadavpur University).  She has previously been a Charles Wallace Poetry Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and has extensively published poetry and translated fiction from several South Asian languages over the last 10 years.